Violent entanglements: The transgressive gendered body in India's global workplaces

Dr Radha Hegde

With India being drawn into global marketplace as the high-tech solution center for business problems and operations, new types of labor demands and work environments have surfaced. The growing influence of new media technologies and mediated workplaces have created conditions of labor for women that entangle the categories of the national and transnational, private and public. Through a close reading of the discourse that emerged after the rape and murder of a call center employee in Bangalore, this talk engages with the sexual politics of transnational work in India's call centers.

Bio

Radha S. Hegde is an Associate Professor in the department of Media, Culture and Communication at New University.

Organiser: Bloomsbury Gender Network and the Centre for Gender Studies (SOAS)

Contact email: N.S.Al-Ali@soas.ac.uk