ISBN:
0822348438
,
1283252031
,
0822348705
,
9781283252034
,
9780822348436
,
9780822348702
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xi, 239 p.))
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Appropriately Indian
DDC:
305.5/530954
Keywords:
Globalization Social aspects
;
Information technology Social aspects
;
Information technology Economic aspects
;
Information technology -- Economic aspects -- India
;
Information technology -- Social aspects -- India
;
Globalization -- Social aspects -- India
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
An ethnography analyzing India s class of transnational information technology professionals and their influential ideas about what it means to be Indian
Description / Table of Contents:
Privilege : situating India's transnational classGlobal/Indian : cultural politics in the IT workplace -- Merit : ideologies of achievement in the knowledge economy -- Individuals : narratives of embedded selves -- Family : gendered "balance" and the everyday production of the nation -- Religion : when the private is transnational.
Note:
Description based on print version record
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Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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