Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor - Brossura

Vora, Kalindi

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ISBN 10: 081669396X ISBN 13: 9780816693962

Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2015

Riassunto

From call centers, overseas domestic labor, and customer care to human organ selling, gestational surrogacy, and knowledge work, such as software programming, life itself is channeled across the globe from one population to another.

In Life Support, Kalindi Vora demonstrates how biological bodies have become a new kind of global biocapital. Vora examines how forms of labor serve to support life in the United States at the expense of the lives of people in India. She exposes the ways in which even seemingly inalienable aspects of human life such as care, love, and trust&;as well as biological bodies and organs&;are not only commodifiable entities but also components essential to contemporary capitalism.

As with earlier modes of accumulation, this new global economy has come to rely on the reproduction of life for expansion. Human bodies and subjects are playing a role similar to that of land and natural resource dispossession in the period of capitalist growth during European territorial colonialism. Indeed, the rapid pace at which scientific knowledge of biology and genetics has accelerated has opened up the human body as an extended site for annexation, harvest, dispossession, and production.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Kalindi Vora is assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Minnesota Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 081669396X
• ISBN 13: 9780816693962
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 184
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile