Nandita Badami
Biographic Data
| ID | 2110059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nandita Badami |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nandita |
| FAMILY NAME | Badami |
| SIGNATURE | BADAMI N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Let there Be Light (Or, In Defense of Darkness)
Drawing links between solar philanthrocapitalism and the concept of light as knowledge, this article cautions against the regressive epistemics we might unintentionally reinforce through the fetishization of rationality as a measure of the success of a solar intervention. In its place, it suggests solarities that delink the expectation of development from the commitment to improve energy access-that is, an epistemics through which we might let ac…
Informality as Fix
Street cultures of make-do and reuse in contemporary India, colloquially known as jugaad, is a set of material practices that have had a long and established history in the country. This article juxtaposes such practices with ‘repair’ in order to consider the politics of jugaad as it played out in the years following the financial crisis of 2008. As growth rates suffered massive contractions and workers were laid off in large numbers, jugaad came…
Informality as Fix
Street cultures of make-do and reuse in contemporary India, colloquially known as jugaad, is a set of material practices that have had a long and established history in the country. This article juxtaposes such practices with ‘repair’ in order to consider the politics of jugaad as it played out in the years following the financial crisis of 2008. As growth rates suffered massive contractions and workers were laid off in large numbers, jugaad came…
Let there Be Light (Or, In Defense of Darkness)
Drawing links between solar philanthrocapitalism and the concept of light as knowledge, this article cautions against the regressive epistemics we might unintentionally reinforce through the fetishization of rationality as a measure of the success of a solar intervention. In its place, it suggests solarities that delink the expectation of development from the commitment to improve energy access-that is, an epistemics through which we might let ac…
Informality as Fix
Street cultures of make-do and reuse in contemporary India, colloquially known as jugaad, is a set of material practices that have had a long and established history in the country. This article juxtaposes such practices with ‘repair’ in order to consider the politics of jugaad as it played out in the years following the financial crisis of 2008. As growth rates suffered massive contractions and workers were laid off in large numbers, jugaad came…
Let there Be Light (Or, In Defense of Darkness)
Drawing links between solar philanthrocapitalism and the concept of light as knowledge, this article cautions against the regressive epistemics we might unintentionally reinforce through the fetishization of rationality as a measure of the success of a solar intervention. In its place, it suggests solarities that delink the expectation of development from the commitment to improve energy access-that is, an epistemics through which we might let ac…
Sociology (2 works) · Business (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Economy (1 work) · Energy (signal processing) (1 work) · Energy and Environment Impacts (1 work) · Engineering (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Finance (1 work) · History (1 work)