New article in STHV: “Hackathons and the Making of Entrepeneurial Citizenship”

This piece, “Hackathons and the Making of Entrepreneurial Citizenship,” comes from my ethnographic work on design as nation building in India. It will appear in a special issue on the politics of hacking edited by Johann Soderberg and Alessandro Delfanti in Science, Technology & Human Values.

From the abstract: “Hackathons sometimes produce technologies, and they always, however, produce subjects. This article argues that the hackathon rehearses an entrepreneurial citizenship celebrated in transnational cultures that orient toward Silicon Valley for models of social change. Such optimistic, high-velocity practice aligns, in India, with middle-class politics that favor quick and forceful action with socially similar collaborators over the contestations of mass democracy or the slow construction of coalition across difference. “