Answering the Call
Answering the Call
This chapter explores the postcolonial context of newly-mediated global intimacies generated by the call center industry, which generate unprecedented time-space relations. Telecommunication-based labor connects Indian workers with U.S. consumers in real time, exposing the unevenness of the compression of time and space.
Keywords: globalization, geography, time-space compression, citizenship, neoliberalism, experience
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