A vivid look at how India has developed the idea of entrepreneurial
citizens as leaders mobilizing society and how people try to live
that promise 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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