"Jugaad Infrastructure: Minor infrastructure and the messy aesthetics of everyday life" was featured in Geo: Geography and Environment. Jugaad is an Indian name for versatility and improvisation, a sensibility for improvisation, an ability for improvisation and an enabling of improvisation. This paper proposes the idea of Jugaad Infrastructure for versatile socio-material infrastructure arrangements that inhabit and thrive in the messy aesthetics of everyday life. When development is deployed through the market, Jugaad Infrastructure reveals jugaad's neoliberal co-option, where private companies in the development marketplace adopt the logics of jugaad within carefully managed parameters to sell ‘better’ products and make money from marginalised people and places, but also jugaad's capacity to exceed the neoliberal co-option by empowering people to reconfigure these ‘better’ products to ‘better’ fit their lives and needs, rather than buying more and different products.
Jugaad infrastructure - improvisational infrastructures in everyday life
