Jugaad Time: Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India

by Amit S. Rai

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478001461
• ISBN13: 9781478001461
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"