Thursday, 17th June 2010, 19.00 hours
Humboldt Universität, Dorotheenstr. 24, Room 1.308
"MY NAME IS MICHELLE, HOW MAY I HELP YOU": CALL CENTRES AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF GENDER AND WORK RELATIONSHIPS IN
BANGALORE
Devleena Ghosh University of Technology Sydney and Guest Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin
Abstract: The Indian Ocean has always been a model of transnational cultural commerce. I examine the phenomenon of call centres in India to explore the ways in which trade and culture involve translation and negotiation of meanings, and the forging of new modes of living and being across in between spaces. I investigate the way in which technology transforms ideas of time and space and ask, is this new work culturally empowering or exploitative? Is this an example of the 'Empire fighting back' that is a positive side of globalization? Or are the workers 'cyber-coolies', victims of corporate colonialism and homogenisation of identity; both connected and disconnected from the local and the global by the fibre-optic cables that traverse the sea.
Devleena Ghosh is an academic at the University of Technology Sydney and the Director of its Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network (IOSARN). She is the author of Colonialism and Modernity (2007, UNSW Press, with Paul Gillen), editor of The Cultures of Trade: Indian Ocean Exchanges (2007, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, with Stephen Muecke) and Water, Sovereignty and Border in Asia and Oceania (2008, Routhledge, with Goodall & Donald) and Women in Asia: Shadowlines (2010, Cambridge Scholars Publishing). She is currently working on a manuscript on informal travel between the British colonies of India and Australia in the 19th and early 20th century.
Organised by Isabell Lorey and Urmila Goel, Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien, Humboldt Universität Berlin
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