M George, Graduate Student

Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology

Research

My research focuses on four specific organizations in India that promote innovation in technology and entrepreneurship. This project is framed around organizations that promote entrepreneurial creativity because a focus on innovative practices promotes future-oriented imaginaries where possible social worlds are articulated and negotiated. How is this globally-imagined economy of the deregulation era influencing the ways in which urban, rural, national, and even historical borders and linkages are being constructed and negotiated? And in these complex histories of location and economy, how is innovation being articulated in relation to values such as increased market share, profitability, national pride, poverty alleviation, self-sufficiency or sustainability?