Hemangini Gupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 110190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hemangini Gupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hemangini |
| FAMILY NAME | Gupta |
| SIGNATURE | GUPTA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlebury College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5951-0441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader
What's the Use of Feminist and Queer Theory: On Messy Methods, Archives, and Objects
By thinking with Feminist and Queer Studies, what new languages, objects of study, archives, and methods are enabled for those with other disciplinary trainings? This article uses as a case study a recent workshop that we—two Ph.D.s in Feminist Studies—convened for our colleagues who are affiliated with Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and had expressed their desire to be in conversation with current Feminist and Queer Studies debates. We …
Feminist multimodality: A retrospective account of an exhibition on speculative urbanism
This essay offers a retrospective account of a multimodal public exhibit at the end of a multi-year research project on speculative urbanism. While the registers of speculation are invariably forward-looking, our research presented us with the central place of memory as a frame through which urban residents in Bengaluru, India, negotiate their present and imagine the possibilities of the future. This essay examines four ways in which we created s…
What do we talk about when we talk about heat
Postcolonial Assembly Protocols for Unnamed Automation Projects [Special Section]
This creative contribution offers a sardonic manual to navigate the exuberant world of the startup economy in Bangalore, India, once known as a backend site of technological labor. As Bangalore fashions itself to become a “new” StartUp City, this manual continually tacks between the material sites and discourses of these seemingly new practices to bring into focus the persistent and revised forms of inequality that undergird them. Adopting the fo…
Nostalgia as Affective Landscape: Negotiating Displacement in the “World City”
Bangalore, an aspiring “world city”, is rapidly transforming as factories and mills are sold to private developers. As their neighbourhoods now accommodate multi‐million‐dollar gated communities and post‐industrial labour markets, residents experience an in situ displacement, staying in place while landscapes around them dramatically reconfigure. This paper makes sense of how old‐time residents locate themselves within such urban growth through n…
The Corporeal Costs of Doing What You Love
When I conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the high-technology world of startup capitalism in Bangalore, India, the air was full of possibility. This is India’s “Start Up City,” a vision for the fu
Testing the Future: Gender and Technocapitalism in Start-Up India
In this article I examine how start-up capitalism recalibrates transnational 'outsourcing' or the work of so-called 'cyber coolies' to instead create labour as a site of innovation and experimental consumption. First, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork in India to theorise digital labour as a form of experimental mediation and temporal work oriented to the future. Second, I show how work is deeply embodied and centres on the racialised and gendered…
Nostalgia as Affective Landscape: Negotiating Displacement in the “World City”
Bangalore, an aspiring “world city”, is rapidly transforming as factories and mills are sold to private developers. As their neighbourhoods now accommodate multi‐million‐dollar gated communities and post‐industrial labour markets, residents experience an in situ displacement, staying in place while landscapes around them dramatically reconfigure. This paper makes sense of how old‐time residents locate themselves within such urban growth through n…
Testing the Future: Gender and Technocapitalism in Start-Up India
In this article I examine how start-up capitalism recalibrates transnational 'outsourcing' or the work of so-called 'cyber coolies' to instead create labour as a site of innovation and experimental consumption. First, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork in India to theorise digital labour as a form of experimental mediation and temporal work oriented to the future. Second, I show how work is deeply embodied and centres on the racialised and gendered…
The Corporeal Costs of Doing What You Love
When I conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the high-technology world of startup capitalism in Bangalore, India, the air was full of possibility. This is India’s “Start Up City,” a vision for the fu
Testing the Future: Gender and Technocapitalism in Start-Up India
In this article I examine how start-up capitalism recalibrates transnational 'outsourcing' or the work of so-called 'cyber coolies' to instead create labour as a site of innovation and experimental consumption. First, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork in India to theorise digital labour as a form of experimental mediation and temporal work oriented to the future. Second, I show how work is deeply embodied and centres on the racialised and gendered…
Postcolonial Assembly Protocols for Unnamed Automation Projects [Special Section]
This creative contribution offers a sardonic manual to navigate the exuberant world of the startup economy in Bangalore, India, once known as a backend site of technological labor. As Bangalore fashions itself to become a “new” StartUp City, this manual continually tacks between the material sites and discourses of these seemingly new practices to bring into focus the persistent and revised forms of inequality that undergird them. Adopting the fo…
Nostalgia as Affective Landscape: Negotiating Displacement in the “World City”
Bangalore, an aspiring “world city”, is rapidly transforming as factories and mills are sold to private developers. As their neighbourhoods now accommodate multi‐million‐dollar gated communities and post‐industrial labour markets, residents experience an in situ displacement, staying in place while landscapes around them dramatically reconfigure. This paper makes sense of how old‐time residents locate themselves within such urban growth through n…
Feminist multimodality: A retrospective account of an exhibition on speculative urbanism
This essay offers a retrospective account of a multimodal public exhibit at the end of a multi-year research project on speculative urbanism. While the registers of speculation are invariably forward-looking, our research presented us with the central place of memory as a frame through which urban residents in Bengaluru, India, negotiate their present and imagine the possibilities of the future. This essay examines four ways in which we created s…
What do we talk about when we talk about heat
What's the Use of Feminist and Queer Theory: On Messy Methods, Archives, and Objects
By thinking with Feminist and Queer Studies, what new languages, objects of study, archives, and methods are enabled for those with other disciplinary trainings? This article uses as a case study a recent workshop that we—two Ph.D.s in Feminist Studies—convened for our colleagues who are affiliated with Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and had expressed their desire to be in conversation with current Feminist and Queer Studies debates. We …
Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (2 works) · Embodied cognition (2 works)