Politics of presence: women’s safety and respectability at night in Mumbai, India

Authors :: Aparna Parikh
Source :: Gender, Place & Culture. 25:695-710
Publication Year :: 2017
Publisher :: Informa UK Limited, 2017.
Abstract: This article focuses on women’s mobility in urban public space in Mumbai, India while working night shifts in outsourced call centres. The outsourced call centre industry is heralded as the...

Subjects :: Cultural Studies
South asia
05 social sciences
0211 other engineering and technologies
0507 social and economic geography
Feminist geography
021107 urban & regional planning
Gender studies
02 engineering and technology
Call centre
Gender Studies
Politics
Public space
Urban geography
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Political science
050703 geography
Demography

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