Chasing Innovation (eBook)

Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India

Lilly Irani (Autor)

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2019
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18944-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Lilly Irani is assistant professor of communication and science studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is a cofounder and maintainer of digital labor activism tool Turkopticon. Twitter @gleemie

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A vivid look at how India has developed the idea of entrepreneurial citizens as leaders mobilizing society and how people try to live that promiseCan entrepreneurs develop a nation, serve the poor, and pursue creative freedom, all while generating economic value? In Chasing Innovation, Lilly Irani shows the contradictions that arise as designers, engineers, and businesspeople frame development and governance as opportunities to innovate. Irani documents the rise of "e;entrepreneurial citizenship"e; in India over the past seventy years, demonstrating how a global ethos of development through design has come to shape state policy, economic investment, and the middle class in one of the world's fastest-growing nations.Drawing on her own professional experience as a Silicon Valley designer and nearly a decade of fieldwork following a Delhi design studio, Irani vividly chronicles the practices and mindsets that hold up professional design as the answer to the challenges of a country of more than one billion people, most of whom are poor. While discussions of entrepreneurial citizenship promise that Indian children can grow up to lead a nation aspiring to uplift the poor, in reality, social, economic, and political structures constrain whose enterprise, which hopes, and which needs can be seen as worthy of investment. In the process, Irani warns, powerful investors, philanthropies, and companies exploit citizens' social relations, empathy, and political hope in the quest to generate economic value. Irani argues that the move to recast social change as innovation, with innovators as heroes, frames others-craftspeople, workers, and activists-as of lower value, or even dangers to entrepreneurial forms of development.With meticulous historical context and compelling stories, Chasing Innovation lays bare how long-standing power hierarchies such as class, caste, language, and colonialism continue to shape opportunity in a world where good ideas supposedly rule all.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: activism • Advertising • ananya roy • Artisan • authenticity • bias to action • Bill &amp • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • Brainstorming • Business School • Capitalism • capitalist production • Career • central government • Citizenship • civic action • Civil Society • Collaboration • Colonialism • Commodity • Competition • conference call • Consultant • consumer • Cultural Capital • Customer • Deliberation • democratic processes • Design • Designer • Designers • Design in education • Design Studio • design thinking • Development • Developmental state • Development Economics • Development Projects • Economic Development • Economic Governance • Economic Growth • economic productivity • Economics • Economic Value • economist • economy • Educational Reforms • Empathy • Employment • Engineering • Enterprise • enterprising people • Entrepreneur • entrepreneurial actors • entrepreneurial citizens • entrepreneurial citizenship • Entrepreneurialism • entrepreneurial time • entrepreneurial urgency • Entrepreneurs • Entrepreneurship • Experiment • experiments • Exploitation • Funding • Global capital • global corporations • Globalization • Governance • Governmentality • Grameen Bank • graphic designer • Grassroots • Hackathon • High Tech • human-centered design • IDEO • Ideology • India • Indian elites • Indian Institutes of Technology • Informal Economy • Infrastructure • Innovation • Innovation competition • Innovators • Institution • Intellectual Property • Investor • Jawaharlal Nehru • Labor • Liberalization • liberalized development • Lucy Suchman • Management • Management Consulting • Marketing • Melinda Gates Foundation • Microfinance • middle class • middle-class Indians • Modernity • National Development • National Institute of Design • Nation-Building • Neoliberalism • Non-governmental organization • Nonprofit Organization • Opportunity • Oppression • optimism • Pedagogy • philanthropy • Planning • Political Economy • Political Science • Politics • poorer Indians • power hierarchy • private sector • Product design • Profession • professional design • programming • Project • Research and Development • Sam Pitroda • Sanitation • sensibility • Silicon Valley • Singh • Social Enterprise • social enterprise projects • Social Entrepreneurship • Social hierarchy • Social Movement • Social orders • social relation • Social Relationships • Sociology • startup company • Steve Jobs • Technology • TED (conference) • Tom Boellstorff • United Nations development programme • United States • Value • Venture Capital • Wealth • welfare • World Bank • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18944-7 / 0691189447
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18944-4 / 9780691189444