Jugaad Time
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Jugaad Time

Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India

Amit S. Rai

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Jugaad Time

Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India

Amit S. Rai

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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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Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2019
ISBN
9781478002543
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Estudios de medios

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APA 6 Citation

Rai, A. (2019). Jugaad Time ([edition unavailable]). Duke University Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1458099/jugaad-time-ecologies-of-everyday-hacking-in-india-pdf (Original work published 2019)

Chicago Citation

Rai, Amit. (2019) 2019. Jugaad Time. [Edition unavailable]. Duke University Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/1458099/jugaad-time-ecologies-of-everyday-hacking-in-india-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Rai, A. (2019) Jugaad Time. [edition unavailable]. Duke University Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1458099/jugaad-time-ecologies-of-everyday-hacking-in-india-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Rai, Amit. Jugaad Time. [edition unavailable]. Duke University Press, 2019. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.