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Author Dasgupta, Simanti, 1971- author.

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

Publication Info. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2015.
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Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Politics of Distrust -- 2. Market Experiments and Peripheral Lives -- 3. Software Nation -- 4. Travails of Time -- 5. "The Black Box."
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Subject Computer software industry -- Social aspects -- India -- Bangalore.
Computer software industry.
Social aspects.
India.
India -- Bangalore.
Computer software industry -- Economic aspects -- India -- Bangalore.
Computer software industry -- Economic aspects.
Information services industry -- Social aspects -- India -- Bangalore.
Information services industry -- Social aspects.
Information services industry.
Information services industry -- Economic aspects -- India -- Bangalore.
Water-supply -- Economic aspects -- India -- Bangalore.
Water-supply -- Economic aspects.
Water-supply.
Water-supply -- Social aspects -- India -- Bangalore.
Social structure -- India -- Bangalore.
Neoliberalism -- India -- Bangalore.
Political participation -- India -- Bangalore.
Bangalore (India) -- Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Water-supply -- Social aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
Social structure.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
Neoliberalism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Political participation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Social conditions.
Other Form: Print version: Dasgupta, Simanti, 1971- BITS of belonging 9781439912584 (DLC) 2015005951 (OCoLC)911135075
ISBN 9781439912607 (electronic book)
1439912602 (electronic book)
9781439912584
1439912580
9781439912591
1439912599

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