Amit S. Rai shows how urban South Asians employ low-cost technological workarounds and hacks known as jugaad to solve problems, navigate, and resist India's neoliberal ecologies.
Amit S. Rai shows how urban South Asians employ low-cost technological workarounds and hacks known as jugaad to solve problems, navigate, and resist India's neoliberal ecologies.
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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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
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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