ANT204H5 Lecture 8: ANT204 – Lecture 8
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Class and narratives of protection: bangalore: 2005 rape and murder of pratibha srikanth murthy, a hewlett packard employee, she was going to her call center job, the rapist was acting like the shuttle driver, company didn"t do their duty as protector, hewlett packard was charged due to the lack of protection of laborers in night shift. From patels" perspective, the murder of one women got a lot more coverage than all these women that got murdered: she thought that the class dimensions of the media coverage was different, call center work was a middle class kind of job, she says that in history factory jobs are seen to be dangerous therefore it wasn"t seen as a big deal, middle class jobs are supposed to be safe therefore it was a, compare with: highway of tears in canada shock when the call center worker was murdered.
