Carson Book Prize for "Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor" by Kalindi Vora: Author Meets Critic

Session Submission Type: Traditional (Closed) Panel

Abstract

This panel discusses and expands on Kalindi Vora's 2018 Carson Prize winning book "Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor (University of Minnesota Press, 2015)".

Life Support is a compelling multi-sited ethnography that analyzes call centers, IT outsourcing and gestational surrogacy in India as a kindred forms of outsourced vital labor. Over the course of the book, Vora draws these disparate cases together in surprising and productive ways, where each highlights less visible aspects of the other. The result is a work that brings new ethical and political insights to each case, as well as to broader discussions of biocapital and labor.

Sub Unit

• Closed Panels

Chair

• Sara Wylie, Northeastern University

Discussant

• Kalindi Vora, University of California Davis

Individual Presentations

• Chia-Ling Wu - Chia-Ling Wu, National Taiwan University

• Kaushik Sunder Rajan - Kaushik Sunder Rajan, University of Chicago

• Shobita Parthasarathy - Shobita Parthasarathy, University of Michigan

Session Organizer

• Timothy Choy, University of California, Davis