Neutral Accent

How Language, Labor, and Life Become Global

Omschrijving

A. Aneesh uses India's call centers as sites to study the consequences of successful global integration. Call center work requires neutralizing racial, ethnic, and national identities, which causes a disintegration of self where the performance of one's neutralized identity serves the system of global markets. Acknowledgments ix Prologue: One World, Diverse Itineraries 1 1. Glimpsing an Urban Future: Divergent Tracks of Gurgaon 13 2. Inside a Call Center: Otherworldly Passages 35 3. Neutral Accent 53 4. System Identities: Divergent Itineraries and Uses of Personality 77 5. Nightly Clashes: Diurnal Body, Nocturnal Labor, Neutral Markets 101 Epilogue: The Logic of Indifference 127 References 137 Index 151
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Schrijver
Aneesh, A.
Titel
Neutral Accent
Uitgever
Duke University Press
Jaar
2015
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
168
Gewicht
227 gr
EAN
9780822358534
Afmetingen
229 x 152 x 10 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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