A Aneesh
Biographic Data
| ID | 109336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Aneesh |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Aneesh |
| SIGNATURE | ANEESH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3565-1527 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Modular Citizenship in Contemporary World Society
Recent theories of citizenship call into question the dominance of ancestry (jus sanguinis) and territory (jus soli) as the primary criteria for membership in a polity. Debates around postnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism increasingly locate the legitimacy of citizenship in world-level models of rights that extend beyond the state. Yet national citizenship remains remarkably persistent, posing three interrelated puzzles for the s…
Teaching and Learning Guide for “What is algorithmic governance?”
Nightly Rhythms of Global Work
This essay explores the burdens of nightwork through the eyes of call center employees in India. India’s call centers are revealing of the ways in which work lives are reorganized to fit global processes. When the nights of agents are hitched directly to the days of other places, we witness not only a triumph of the global economy; we also notice certain dysfunctions of a functionally integrated world
What is algorithmic governance
This article contributes a coherent framework to the rich literature emerging in the field of algorithmic governance while also resolving conflicting understandings. Tracing the history of algorithmic governance to the broad architecture of the universal Turing Machine, the article identifies a common thread of critical concern in the literature on algorithmic governance: the growing institutional capabilities to move contestable issues to a spac…
‘Relocating Global Assemblages’: An Interview with Saskia Sassen
Epilogue: The Global Horizon for Technoscience
Citizenship and inequality in a global age
Although the notion of national citizenship has long held the promise of equal membership, it has proved less useful in a world of circulating cultures, people, and loyalties through money, media, and migration. The increasing mobility of capital and people across national borders compels us to conceptualize welfare and inequality at the global level. Although the enforcement of citizen rights remains within the purview of the nation‐state, the s…
Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor, and Life Become Global
In Neutral Accent, A. Aneesh employs India's call centers as useful sites for studying global change. The horizon of global economic shift, the consequences of global integration, and the ways in which call center work "neutralizes" racial, ethnic, and national identities become visible from the confines of their cubicles. In his interviews with call service workers and in his own work in a call center in the high tech metropolis of Gurgoan, Indi…
Emerging Scripts of Global Speech
As work regimes become global, social communication increasingly occurs across locations far apart. In the absence of a common national, ethnic, or organizational culture across continents, what makes communication possible among social worlds technologically integrated in real time? Taking India's global call centers as the focus of analysis, this article attempts to solve the riddle of communication by showing how transnational business practic…
Negotiating Globalization: Men and Women of India's Call Centers
Most accounts of globalization are accounts of economic integration and cultural flows. There are few studies, however, of the ways global processes enter into an individual's personality. Based on a yearlong ethnographic study of India's international call centers in 2004–2005, this article examines how global integrations are felt, experienced, negotiated, and embodied by call center agents. Reformulating the thesis of system and lifeworld, thi…
Bloody Language: Clashes and Constructions of Linguistic Nationalism in India
Locating “nation” not on the center but on its borders, this study seeks to shift the study of nation from an analysis centered on its origins or its substantive and foundational aspects to an investigation focused on its mode of boundary construction. This article reverses the debate over whether nations grow out of some presumed ethnic, linguistic, or religious foundations to argue that these foundations themselves are given shape by a sociocog…
Entries
Global Labor: Algocratic Modes of Organization
This study investigates a practice that allows workers based in India to work online on projects for corporations in the United States, representing a new mode of labor integration. In the absence of direct bureaucratic control across continents, the question arises how this rapidly growing labor practice is organized. The riddle of organizational governance is solved through an analysis of software programming schemes, which are presented as the…
Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain
Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization
Harriet B. Presser, Working in a 24/7 Economy: Challenges for American Families
Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency
Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency Susan Bibler Coutin (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2003
The Global Construction of Gender: Home-Based Work in the Political Economy of the 20th Century
Skill saturation: Rationalization and post-industrial work
Global Labor: Algocratic Modes of Organization
This study investigates a practice that allows workers based in India to work online on projects for corporations in the United States, representing a new mode of labor integration. In the absence of direct bureaucratic control across continents, the question arises how this rapidly growing labor practice is organized. The riddle of organizational governance is solved through an analysis of software programming schemes, which are presented as the…
Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor, and Life Become Global
In Neutral Accent, A. Aneesh employs India's call centers as useful sites for studying global change. The horizon of global economic shift, the consequences of global integration, and the ways in which call center work "neutralizes" racial, ethnic, and national identities become visible from the confines of their cubicles. In his interviews with call service workers and in his own work in a call center in the high tech metropolis of Gurgoan, Indi…
Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization
Negotiating Globalization: Men and Women of India's Call Centers
Most accounts of globalization are accounts of economic integration and cultural flows. There are few studies, however, of the ways global processes enter into an individual's personality. Based on a yearlong ethnographic study of India's international call centers in 2004–2005, this article examines how global integrations are felt, experienced, negotiated, and embodied by call center agents. Reformulating the thesis of system and lifeworld, thi…
What is algorithmic governance
This article contributes a coherent framework to the rich literature emerging in the field of algorithmic governance while also resolving conflicting understandings. Tracing the history of algorithmic governance to the broad architecture of the universal Turing Machine, the article identifies a common thread of critical concern in the literature on algorithmic governance: the growing institutional capabilities to move contestable issues to a spac…
Skill saturation: Rationalization and post-industrial work
Citizenship and inequality in a global age
Although the notion of national citizenship has long held the promise of equal membership, it has proved less useful in a world of circulating cultures, people, and loyalties through money, media, and migration. The increasing mobility of capital and people across national borders compels us to conceptualize welfare and inequality at the global level. Although the enforcement of citizen rights remains within the purview of the nation‐state, the s…
Bloody Language: Clashes and Constructions of Linguistic Nationalism in India
Locating “nation” not on the center but on its borders, this study seeks to shift the study of nation from an analysis centered on its origins or its substantive and foundational aspects to an investigation focused on its mode of boundary construction. This article reverses the debate over whether nations grow out of some presumed ethnic, linguistic, or religious foundations to argue that these foundations themselves are given shape by a sociocog…
Emerging Scripts of Global Speech
As work regimes become global, social communication increasingly occurs across locations far apart. In the absence of a common national, ethnic, or organizational culture across continents, what makes communication possible among social worlds technologically integrated in real time? Taking India's global call centers as the focus of analysis, this article attempts to solve the riddle of communication by showing how transnational business practic…
Skill saturation: Rationalization and post-industrial work
The Global Construction of Gender: Home-Based Work in the Political Economy of the 20th Century
Harriet B. Presser, Working in a 24/7 Economy: Challenges for American Families
Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency
Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants' Struggle for U.S. Residency Susan Bibler Coutin (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2003
Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization
Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States by Sarah S. Lochlann Jain
Entries
Global Labor: Algocratic Modes of Organization
This study investigates a practice that allows workers based in India to work online on projects for corporations in the United States, representing a new mode of labor integration. In the absence of direct bureaucratic control across continents, the question arises how this rapidly growing labor practice is organized. The riddle of organizational governance is solved through an analysis of software programming schemes, which are presented as the…
Bloody Language: Clashes and Constructions of Linguistic Nationalism in India
Locating “nation” not on the center but on its borders, this study seeks to shift the study of nation from an analysis centered on its origins or its substantive and foundational aspects to an investigation focused on its mode of boundary construction. This article reverses the debate over whether nations grow out of some presumed ethnic, linguistic, or religious foundations to argue that these foundations themselves are given shape by a sociocog…
Negotiating Globalization: Men and Women of India's Call Centers
Most accounts of globalization are accounts of economic integration and cultural flows. There are few studies, however, of the ways global processes enter into an individual's personality. Based on a yearlong ethnographic study of India's international call centers in 2004–2005, this article examines how global integrations are felt, experienced, negotiated, and embodied by call center agents. Reformulating the thesis of system and lifeworld, thi…
Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor, and Life Become Global
In Neutral Accent, A. Aneesh employs India's call centers as useful sites for studying global change. The horizon of global economic shift, the consequences of global integration, and the ways in which call center work "neutralizes" racial, ethnic, and national identities become visible from the confines of their cubicles. In his interviews with call service workers and in his own work in a call center in the high tech metropolis of Gurgoan, Indi…
Emerging Scripts of Global Speech
As work regimes become global, social communication increasingly occurs across locations far apart. In the absence of a common national, ethnic, or organizational culture across continents, what makes communication possible among social worlds technologically integrated in real time? Taking India's global call centers as the focus of analysis, this article attempts to solve the riddle of communication by showing how transnational business practic…
‘Relocating Global Assemblages’: An Interview with Saskia Sassen
Epilogue: The Global Horizon for Technoscience
Citizenship and inequality in a global age
Although the notion of national citizenship has long held the promise of equal membership, it has proved less useful in a world of circulating cultures, people, and loyalties through money, media, and migration. The increasing mobility of capital and people across national borders compels us to conceptualize welfare and inequality at the global level. Although the enforcement of citizen rights remains within the purview of the nation‐state, the s…
Nightly Rhythms of Global Work
This essay explores the burdens of nightwork through the eyes of call center employees in India. India’s call centers are revealing of the ways in which work lives are reorganized to fit global processes. When the nights of agents are hitched directly to the days of other places, we witness not only a triumph of the global economy; we also notice certain dysfunctions of a functionally integrated world
What is algorithmic governance
This article contributes a coherent framework to the rich literature emerging in the field of algorithmic governance while also resolving conflicting understandings. Tracing the history of algorithmic governance to the broad architecture of the universal Turing Machine, the article identifies a common thread of critical concern in the literature on algorithmic governance: the growing institutional capabilities to move contestable issues to a spac…
Teaching and Learning Guide for “What is algorithmic governance?”
Modular Citizenship in Contemporary World Society
Recent theories of citizenship call into question the dominance of ancestry (jus sanguinis) and territory (jus soli) as the primary criteria for membership in a polity. Debates around postnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism increasingly locate the legitimacy of citizenship in world-level models of rights that extend beyond the state. Yet national citizenship remains remarkably persistent, posing three interrelated puzzles for the s…
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