Jugaad Time : Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India

Name: Jugaad Time
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9781478001102
Price: 16550 KES
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ISBN: 9781478001102

by Amit S. Rai

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Format Hardback

Book Series ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise

ISBN-10 1478001100

ISBN-13 9781478001102

Publisher Duke University Press

Imprint Duke University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 15th, 2019

Print length 232 Pages

Weight 464 grams

Dimensions 16.00 x 23.70 x 2.00 cms

Product Classification: South Asia (Indian sub-continent)Cultural studies Cultural studies Industrial applications of scientific research & technological innovation Industrial applications of scientific research and technological innovation Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects Ethical & social aspects of IT

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In 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.

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