Jugaad Time: Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India

Author:   Amit S. Rai
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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Pages:   232
Publication Date:   14 February 2019
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Author:   Amit S. Rai
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781478001461


ISBN 10:   1478001461
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   14 February 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Preface  ix Acknowledgments  xix Introduction. A Political Ecology of Jugaad  1 Fables of the Reinvention I. Toward a Universal History of Hacking  39 1. The Affect of Jugaad: ""Frugal Innovation"" and the Workaround Ecologies of Postcolonial Practice  45 2. Neoliberal Assemblages of Perception and Digital Media in India  68 Fables of the Reinvention II. New Desiring Machines  102 3. Jugaad Ecologies of Social Reproduction  106 4. Diagramming Affect: Smart Cities and Plasticity in India's Informal Economy  128 Fables of the Reinvention III. A Series of Minor Events  150 Conclusion. Jugaad Jugaading: Time, Language, Misogyny in Hacking Ecologies  153 Notes  167 References  175 Index  203"

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Jugaad Time will be of great interest to an array of scholars of South Asia who are committed to ethnographically and historically examining assemblages of affect, media technologies, and temporality. The book offers a novel and important opportunity for these scholars to examine how the Global South is implicated in and by innovation studies. -- Anisha Chadha * Visual Anthropology Review *


"""Jugaad Time will be of great interest to an array of scholars of South Asia who are committed to ethnographically and historically examining assemblages of affect, media technologies, and temporality. The book offers a novel and important opportunity for these scholars to examine how the Global South is implicated in and by innovation studies."" -- Anisha Chadha * Visual Anthropology Review * ""Researchers of waste, maintenance, and repair or of the Anthropocene will be interested in jugaad and jugaadus, and Rai’s offering is a welcome challenge to the innovation-dominated framings of consumer capitalist marketing. . . . Even as he emphasizes Indian experiences of jugaad, Rai shows us a way toward wider understandings of how information technologies interlock with contingent and individuated labor to produce the subjectivities of a digital neoliberalism."" -- Juris Milestone * Exertions *"


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Amit S. Rai is Senior Lecturer in New Media and Communication at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage, also published by Duke University Press, and the coeditor of InterMedia in South Asia: The Fourth Screen.

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