Dissertation Research: Technology and Postcolonial Belonging: A Study of Information Technology and the Indian Nation-State in the Context of Globalization

论文研究：技术与后殖民归属：全球化背景下信息技术与印度民族国家研究

• 批准号: 0349917
• 负责人: Adriana Petryna
• 金额: $ 1.15万
• 依托单位: The New School
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-03-01 至 2006-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0349917&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Technology; Postcolonial; Belonging

This is a Science and Technology Studies dissertation improvement grant. The project is an examination of the socio-cultural implications of the recent growth of Information Technology (IT) in India in the context of global capitalism. Funds from the grant will support some equipment purchases and expenses related to travel and housing in Bangalore and New Delhi. The researcher will explore how IT as a form of technological rationality is in a dialectical relationship with its agents (professionals and entrepreneurs) and the Indian state and its implications. The research is expected to show how western technological rationality and a traditional way of life constitute each other. The project will be based on an ethnographic fieldwork over 12 months conducted at two locations in the city of Bangalore situated in the southern state of Karnataka: Infosys Technologies Limited, a software development and consultation company and the IT Ministry of the Government of Karnataka. Part of this research also involves work with the headquarters of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) located in New Delhi. The research methods involved are participant observation at the levels of business transactions and technical work, following political debates framing state policies on the IT sector, open-ended interviews, archival work, and analyses of published and internal official documents of Infosys Technologies Limited, the IT Ministry and NASSCOM. This project will provide valuable information on a specific case of socio-cultural constitution of technology that will be important to understand similar socio-historical formations and the role of the postcolonial state.

这是一项科学技术研究论文改进补助金。 该项目考察了全球资本主义背景下印度信息技术 (IT) 近期发展的社会文化影响。 赠款资金将用于支持班加罗尔和新德里的一些设备采购以及与旅行和住宿相关的费用。 研究人员将探讨信息技术作为技术理性的一种形式如何与其代理人（专业人士和企业家）以及印度政府形成辩证关系及其影响。这项研究预计将展示西方技术理性和传统生活方式如何相互构成。 该项目将基于在卡纳塔克邦南部班加罗尔市的两个地点进行的为期 12 个月的民族志实地调查：软件开发和咨询公司 Infosys Technologies Limited 以及卡纳塔克邦政府 IT 部。这项研究的一部分还涉及与位于新德里的国家软件和服务公司协会 (NASSCOM) 总部的合作。所涉及的研究方法包括商业交易和技术工作层面的参与观察、制定 IT 行业国家政策的政治辩论、开放式访谈、档案工作以及对印孚瑟斯技术有限公司 (Infosys Technologies Limited) 的已发布和内部官方文件的分析。 IT 部和 NASSCOM。 该项目将提供有关技术的社会文化构成的具体案例的有价值的信息，这对于理解类似的社会历史形成和后殖民国家的作用非常重要。