Dr. Amit S. Rai

READER IN CREATIVE INDUSTRIES & ARTS ORGANISING
QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

Dr. Amit S. Rai is Reader in Creative Industries and Arts Organising at Queen Mary, University of London. He is author of Rule of Sympathy: Race, Sentiment, Power 1760-1860 (Palgrave, 2002) and Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India’s New Media Assemblage (Duke UP, 2009). He has taught at the New School for Social Research, Florida State University, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, the Dutch Art Institute, and Lorton Maximum Security Prison. His current research touches on critical management and organizational studies of the creative and cultural industries in the UK and India, emergent conversations between postcolonial theory of creativity industries and the aesthetics of the Black radical tradition. His monograph on work-around practices in Indian urban digital ecosystems, Jugaad Time: Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India, was published in 2019 by Duke University Press.