Jugaad Time: Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India
Amit S. Rai
In India, the practice ofjugaad—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. InJugaad TimeAmit 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.
年:
2019
出版:
Paperback
出版社:
Duke University Press Books
语言:
english
页:
232
ISBN 10:
1478001461
ISBN 13:
9781478001461
系列:
ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
文件:
PDF, 6.59 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2019