Description: Further DetailsTitle: Chasing InnovationCondition: NewDescription: 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 "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.Author: Lilly IraniCountry/Region of Manufacture: USEAN: 9780691175140Format: PaperbackGenre: Society & CultureISBN: 9780691175140ISBN-10: 0691175144Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 155mmLanguage: EnglishPublisher: Princeton University PressRelease Date: 03/12/2019Book Series: Princeton Studies in Culture and TechnologySubtitle: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern IndiaTopic: Social Sciences, Business & FinanceRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Chasing Innovation
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
EAN: 9780691175140
Genre: Society & Culture
ISBN: 9780691175140
ISBN-10: 0691175144
Release Date: 03/12/2019
Release Year: 2019
Subtitle: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India
Title: Chasing Innovation
Topic: Business & Finance
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Chasing Innovation : Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Ethnic Studies / General, Entrepreneurship, General, Economic Conditions, Development / Economic Development, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Public Policy / Economic Policy
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2019
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Lilly Irani
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
Series: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
