Shows
German Historical Institute London PodcastNandini Gooptu: New Cultures of Work, Youth, and Politics in IndiaPart of the Spring Seminar lecture series 2021.2021-03-1046 min
German Historical Institute London PodcastNandini Gooptu: New Cultures of Work, Youth, and Politics in IndiaNew workplaces and work cultures have grown in tandem with India’s consumer revolution, notably in the burgeoning interactive service sector. Here, the demands of customer service are reshaping the political subjectivity and democratic sensibility of the predominantly young workforce, stimulating a personalized, individualized, transactional, and clientelistic approach to politics in preference to collective action, while also unleashing a critique of class, power, and hierarchy.2021-02-2330 min