Smitha Radhakrishnan

Appropriately Indian

Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An ethnography analyzing Indias class of transnational information technology professionals and their influential ideas about what it means to be Indian.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780822348436
• ISBN-10: 0822348438
• Artikelnr.: 32469453

Autorenporträt

Smitha Radhakrishnan

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: On Background 1
1. Privilege: Situating India's Transnational Class 25
2. Global/Indian: Cultural Politics in the IT Workplace 53
3. Merit: Ideologies of Achievement in the Knowledge Economy 87
4. Individuals: Narratives of Embedded Slaves 115
5. Family: Gendered "Balance" and the Everyday Production of the Nation 145
6. Religion: When the Private is Transnational 173
Conclusion: Apolitical Politics 199
Notes 207
Bibliography 215
Index 227