{"product_id":"jugaad-time-9781478001461","title":"Jugaad Time","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn India, the practice of jugaad-finding workarounds or hacks to solve problems-emerged out of subaltern strategies of negotiating poverty, discrimination, and violence but is now celebrated in management literature as a disruptive innovation. In Jugaad Time Amit S. Rai explores how jugaad operates within contemporary Indian digital media cultures through the use of the mobile phone. Rai shows that despite being co-opted by capitalism to extract free creative labor from the workforce, jugaad is simultaneously a practice of everyday resistance, as workers and communities employ hacks to oppose corporate, caste, and gender power. Locating the tensions surrounding jugaad-as both premodern and postdigital, innovative and oppressive-Rai maps how jugaad can be used to undermine neoliberal capitalist media ecologies and nationalist politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eJugaad Time\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"Researchers of waste, maintenance, and repair or of the Anthropocene will be interested in \u003ci\u003ejugaad \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ejugaadus\u003c\/i\u003e, and Rai’s offering is a welcome challenge to the innovation-dominated framings of consumer capitalist marketing. . . . Even as he emphasizes Indian experiences of \u003ci\u003ejugaad\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. A Political Ecology of Jugaad  1\u003cbr\u003e Fables of the Reinvention I. Toward a Universal History of Hacking  39\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Affect of Jugaad: \"Frugal Innovation\" and the Workaround Ecologies of Postcolonial Practice  45\u003cbr\u003e 2. Neoliberal Assemblages of Perception and Digital Media in India  68\u003cbr\u003e Fables of the Reinvention II. New Desiring Machines  102\u003cbr\u003e 3. Jugaad Ecologies of Social Reproduction  106\u003cbr\u003e 4. Diagramming Affect: Smart Cities and Plasticity in India's Informal Economy  128\u003cbr\u003e Fables of the Reinvention III. A Series of Minor Events  150\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Jugaad Jugaading: Time, Language, Misogyny in Hacking Ecologies  153\u003cbr\u003e Notes  167\u003cbr\u003e References  175\u003cbr\u003e Index  203","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408971080023,"sku":"9781478001461","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478001461.jpg?v=1730504913","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jugaad-time-9781478001461","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}