Title Jugaad time : ecologies of everyday hacking in India / Amit S. Rai

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 208 pages) : illustrations Series ANIMA: critical race studies otherwise ANIMA (Duke University Press) Contents The affect of jugaad : "frugal innovation" and the workaround ecologies of postcolonial practice -- Neoliberal assemblages of perception and digital media in India -- Jugaad ecologies of social reproduction -- Diagramming affect : smart cities and plasticity in India's informal economy Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (Duke Books, viewed on February 20, 2019) Subject Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- India Economic development -- Social aspects -- India Digital media -- Social aspects -- India Technology -- Social aspects -- India BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies Digital media -- Social aspects Economic development -- Social aspects Technological innovations -- Social aspects Technology -- Social aspects India Form Electronic book LC no. 2018037764 ISBN 1478002549 9781478002543 1478001100 9781478001102

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