Jugaad Time

"This original and innovative work will enable a new and perhaps paradigm-shattering interpretation of the coimplication of digital assemblages, temporality, and affect. Drawing on a rich ethnographic archive, Amit S. Rai is deeply sensitive to how gender, class, and caste are implicated in emergent techno-perceptual assemblages. His invaluable book is also an effective antidote to the Eurocentricity of digital media studies." - Purnima Mankekar, author of Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality

"Jugaad Time is an important intervention into cartographies of postdigital media cultures. By drawing on the specificity of South Asian cultures, it enriches our understanding of the heterogeneity of these processes. The postcolonial study of media technologies is a vibrant and crucial field of inquiry; Amit S. Rai's outstanding work is an essential contribution to global approaches to new media scholarship." - Tiziana Terranova, author of Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age

"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

"Rai has opened up a new way to think about new media consumption and social change.… [T]he contribution of Jugaad Time to the study of media ecologies, media consumption, intersectionality, and résistance is refreshing." - Anup Kumar, Pacific Affairs

"This book will be of interest to scholars of affect, media, South Asia studies, and anthropology." - Leya Matthews, Contemporary South Asia

"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