Another excellent Duke University Press title that has been indexed by Southwest Humanities is the forthcoming book The Future of Futurity: Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City, by Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta. The Future of Futurity takes as its focus agents in call centers in India and the Philippines working in what is known as “business process outsourcing,” or BPO, which generally serves customers based in the Global North. “Drawing on long-term fieldwork with managers, owners, and workers of BPO companies, the authors explore how workers find pathways for navigating a globalized world and for imagining their futures in it. They point to the heterogeneous lives, yearnings, and anxieties of BPO workers, foregrounding the disjunctions and conjunctions between labor, corporeality, intimacy, family life, and mobility.” This book will be of interest to readers and scholars of globalization, contemporary social theory, labor and capital, time, and affect. The Future of Futurity will be published on April 1, 2025. Please see the publisher’s website here for more information.
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