Amit S. Rai

Jugaad Time

Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781478001102
• ISBN-10: 1478001100
• Artikelnr.: 52530239

Autorenporträt

Amit S. Rai

Inhaltsangabe

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