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BITS of belonging : information technology, water and neoliberal governance in India / Simanti Dasgupta

Philadelphia; Rome; Tokyo : Temple University Press, 2015 [©2015]

xi, 214 Seiten ; 24 cm

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet (Rechtsgrundlage SSG). Univ. Heidelberg, CATS, Südasi

978-1-4399-1258-4 ; 1-4399-1258-0 ; 978-1-4399-1259-1 ; 1-4399-1259-9

2015005951

OCoLC: 911135075 (aus SWB)      ; OCoLC: 930454304 (aus SWB)     

LC 13385  | LB 86385  | LB 49385      Ähnliche Literatur

HD9696.63.I43

338.47005095487

SSG-Nummer(n): 6,24

*Bangalore ; Informationstechnische Industrie ; Wasserwirtschaft ; Neoliberalismus ; Sozialer Wandel      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Computer software industry -- Social aspects -- India -- Bangalore ; Computer software industry -- Economic aspects -- India -- Bangalore ; Information services industry -- Social aspects -- India -- Bangalore ; Information services industry -- Economic aspects -- India -- Bangalore ; Water-supply -- Economic aspects -- India -- Bangalore ; Water-supply -- Social aspects -- India -- Bangalore ; Social structure -- India -- Bangalore ; Neoliberalism -- India -- Bangalore ; Political participation -- India -- Bangalore ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization ; Bangalore (India) -- Social conditions

"India's global success in the Information Technology industry has also prompted the growth of neoliberalism and the re-emergence of the middle class in contemporary urban areas, such as Bangalore. In her significant study, BITS of Belonging, Simanti Dasgupta shows that this economic shift produces new forms of social inequality while reinforcing older ones. She investigates this economic disparity by looking at IT and water privatization to explain how these otherwise unrelated domains correspond to our thinking about citizenship, governance, and belonging. Dasgupta's ethnographic study shows how work and human processes in the IT industry intertwine to meet the market stipulations of the global economy. Meanwhile, in the recasting of water from a public good to a commodity, the middle class insists on a governance and citizenship model based upon market participation. Dasgupta provides a critical analysis of the grassroots activism involved in a contested water project where different classes lay their divergent claims to the city"--