Chasing Innovation

Lilly Irani is associate 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.

出版者:Princeton University Press

作者:Lily Irani

页数:304

出版时间:2019-3-12

价格:0

isbn号码:9780691175133

图书标签:STSinnovationIrani

Can 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 “entrepreneurial citizenship” 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.

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田野是在印度的一家设计工作室，但问题意识是全球资本主义体制下的新自由主义体制/人格，所谓的entrepreneur citizenship，即通过承诺社会变革的主体是企业家将广泛的中产阶级纳入到整个竞争向上的秩序中去。对我而言，这本书更有方法论层面的借鉴意义，同时第一章引用了一位印度本土学者的思想，也值得再读。

Rich data, thick description, innovative theoretical framework combining STS, neoliberalism, work/labor, globalization, post colonialism and statecraft. Really appreciate how the author reflects on their own post colonial situation, and the ethics of “innovation”.

Rich data, thick description, innovative theoretical framework combining STS, neoliberalism, work/labor, globalization, post colonialism and statecraft. Really appreciate how the author reflects on their own post colonial situation, and the ethics of “innovation”.

田野是在印度的一家设计工作室，但问题意识是全球资本主义体制下的新自由主义体制/人格，所谓的entrepreneur citizenship，即通过承诺社会变革的主体是企业家将广泛的中产阶级纳入到整个竞争向上的秩序中去。对我而言，这本书更有方法论层面的借鉴意义，同时第一章引用了一位印度本土学者的思想，也值得再读。