South Asian Technospaces

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

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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