Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India: By Hemangini Gupta Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2024, 308 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9780520392779 (paperback).
The article focuses on Hemangini Gupta’s book *Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India*, which examines entrepreneurship in Bangalore’s startup ecosystem through the lenses of gender, class, and labor. Gupta’s ethnography highlights how startup capitalism, defined as lat...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 62; no. 8; pp. 1486 - 1488 |
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