Amit S. Rai is Senior Lecturer in New Media and Communication at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage, also published by Duke University Press, and the coeditor of InterMedia in South Asia: The Fourth Screen.

• Preface  ixAcknowledgments  xixIntroduction. A Political Ecology of Jugaad  1Fables of the Reinvention I. Toward a Universal History of Hacking  391. The Affect of Jugaad: "Frugal Innovation" and the Workaround Ecologies of Postcolonial Practice  452. Neoliberal Assemblages of Perception and Digital Media in India  68Fables of the Reinvention II. New Desiring Machines  1023. Jugaad Ecologies of Social Reproduction  1064. Diagramming Affect: Smart Cities and Plasticity in India's Informal Economy  128Fables of the Reinvention III. A Series of Minor Events  150Conclusion. Jugaad Jugaading: Time, Language, Misogyny in Hacking Ecologies  153Notes  167References  175Index  203

"Jugaad Time will be of great interest to an array of scholars of South Asia who are committed to ethnographically and historically examining assemblages of affect, media technologies, and temporality. The book offers a novel and important opportunity for these scholars to examine how the Global South is implicated in and by innovation studies." - Anisha Chadha (Visual Anthropology Review) "Researchers of waste, maintenance, and repair or of the Anthropocene will be interested in jugaad and jugaadus, and Rai’s offering is a welcome challenge to the innovation-dominated framings of consumer capitalist marketing. . . . Even as he emphasizes Indian experiences of jugaad, Rai shows us a way toward wider understandings of how information technologies interlock with contingent and individuated labor to produce the subjectivities of a digital neoliberalism." - Juris Milestone (Exertions)

Amit S. Rai is Senior Lecturer in New Media and Communication at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage, also published by Duke University Press, and the coeditor of InterMedia in South Asia: The Fourth Screen.

• Preface  ixAcknowledgments  xixIntroduction. A Political Ecology of Jugaad  1Fables of the Reinvention I. Toward a Universal History of Hacking  391. The Affect of Jugaad: "Frugal Innovation" and the Workaround Ecologies of Postcolonial Practice  452. Neoliberal Assemblages of Perception and Digital Media in India  68Fables of the Reinvention II. New Desiring Machines  1023. Jugaad Ecologies of Social Reproduction  1064. Diagramming Affect: Smart Cities and Plasticity in India's Informal Economy  128Fables of the Reinvention III. A Series of Minor Events  150Conclusion. Jugaad Jugaading: Time, Language, Misogyny in Hacking Ecologies  153Notes  167References  175Index  203

"Jugaad Time will be of great interest to an array of scholars of South Asia who are committed to ethnographically and historically examining assemblages of affect, media technologies, and temporality. The book offers a novel and important opportunity for these scholars to examine how the Global South is implicated in and by innovation studies." - Anisha Chadha (Visual Anthropology Review) "Researchers of waste, maintenance, and repair or of the Anthropocene will be interested in jugaad and jugaadus, and Rai’s offering is a welcome challenge to the innovation-dominated framings of consumer capitalist marketing. . . . Even as he emphasizes Indian experiences of jugaad, Rai shows us a way toward wider understandings of how information technologies interlock with contingent and individuated labor to produce the subjectivities of a digital neoliberalism." - Juris Milestone (Exertions)

Amit S. Rai is Senior Lecturer in New Media and Communication at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage, also published by Duke University Press, and the coeditor of InterMedia in South Asia: The Fourth Screen.

• Preface  ixAcknowledgments  xixIntroduction. A Political Ecology of Jugaad  1Fables of the Reinvention I. Toward a Universal History of Hacking  391. The Affect of Jugaad: "Frugal Innovation" and the Workaround Ecologies of Postcolonial Practice  452. Neoliberal Assemblages of Perception and Digital Media in India  68Fables of the Reinvention II. New Desiring Machines  1023. Jugaad Ecologies of Social Reproduction  1064. Diagramming Affect: Smart Cities and Plasticity in India's Informal Economy  128Fables of the Reinvention III. A Series of Minor Events  150Conclusion. Jugaad Jugaading: Time, Language, Misogyny in Hacking Ecologies  153Notes  167References  175Index  203

"Jugaad Time will be of great interest to an array of scholars of South Asia who are committed to ethnographically and historically examining assemblages of affect, media technologies, and temporality. The book offers a novel and important opportunity for these scholars to examine how the Global South is implicated in and by innovation studies." - Anisha Chadha (Visual Anthropology Review) "Researchers of waste, maintenance, and repair or of the Anthropocene will be interested in jugaad and jugaadus, and Rai’s offering is a welcome challenge to the innovation-dominated framings of consumer capitalist marketing. . . . Even as he emphasizes Indian experiences of jugaad, Rai shows us a way toward wider understandings of how information technologies interlock with contingent and individuated labor to produce the subjectivities of a digital neoliberalism." - Juris Milestone (Exertions)