South Asian Technospaces
by Gajjala, Radhika; Gajjala, Venkataramana; Rybas, NataliaFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-04-01
Publisher(s): Peter Lang Pub Inc
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Summary
This book provides perspectives on how South Asian--often, more specifically, Indian--diasporas inhabit techno-mediated environments through their economic and socio-cultural activities. The themes examined include religion, caste, language, and gender in o
Table of Contents
| Introduction: South Asian Digital Networks and Global Technospaces | p. 1 |
| From "Victims of the Digital Divide" to "Techno-Elites": Gender, Class, and Contested "Asianness" in Online and Offline Geographies | p. 7 |
| The Role of U.S.-based Indian Diasporas in the Entrepreneurship and Globalization Processes in the IT Industry | p. 25 |
| South Asian Technospaces and "Indian" Digital Diasporas? | p. 37 |
| Sampling South Asian Music | p. 49 |
| On Purple Pleasures: Digitally Assembling Bollywood | p. 71 |
| Situating the New Media: Reformulating the Dalit Question | p. 97 |
| Spatial Narratives of the Local: Bringing the Basti Center Stage | p. 123 |
| Caste on Indian Marriage dot-com: Presence and Absence | p. 135 |
| The Virtual State of the Nation: Online Hindu Nationalism in Global Capitalist Modernity | p. 153 |
| The Hybrid Cultures of Cyborg Diasporas: Making Sense of the Expatriate Odias' Conversations | p. 179 |
| Working in Cybernetic Space: Diasporic Indian Call Center Workers in the Outsourced World | p. 205 |
| Practices of Global Capital: Gaps, Cracks, and Ironies in Transnational Call Centers in India | p. 225 |
| "Around Sourcing": Peripheral Centers in the Global Office | p. 249 |
| Conclusion: Moving On, Re-mixing It Up: Web 2.0, Offline/Online Intersections, Globalization through NGOs, Machinima, Mash-ups | p. 265 |
| References | p. 275 |
| Contributors | p. 297 |
| Index | p. 301 |
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