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Simanti Dasgupta - BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, and Neoliberal Governance in India - 9781439912584 - V9781439912584
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BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, and Neoliberal Governance in India

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Description for BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, and Neoliberal Governance in India Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; KCM; KNTX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 635.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439912584
SKU
V9781439912584
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99-1

About Simanti Dasgupta
Simanti Dasgupta is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Dayton.

Reviews for BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, and Neoliberal Governance in India
“An engaging and important book that re-frames the widely studied field of IT in India in novel and interesting ways. Simanti Dasgupta offers new insights in her juxtaposition of IT and water distribution, and shows how neoliberal politics in India are deeply embedded in gender and caste hierarchies. Illuminative, BITS of Belonging deserves to be widely read.”—Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, ... Read more

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