Repair work ethnographies : revisiting breakdown, relocating materiality /: revisiting breakdown, relocating materiality. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ignaz Strebel, Alain Bovet, Philippe Sormani.
• Editors: Strebel, Ignaz, 1970-; Bovet, Alain; Sormani, Philippe
• Contents: Introduction.- Chapter 1 / When Things Break Down.- Part I: Settings.- Chapter 2 / Repair Work as Inquiry and Improvisation: the Curious Case of Medical Practice.- Chapter 3 / 'A Good Enough Fix': Repair and Maintenance in Librarians' Digitization Practice.- Chapter 4 / Job Done: What Repair Does to Caretakers, Tenants and their Flats.- Part II: Networks.- Chapter 5 / Mobile Phone Repair Knowledges in Downtown Kampala: Local and Trans-local Circulations.- Chapter 6 / The Dance of Maintenance and the Dynamics of Urban Assemblages: The Daily (Re)assemblage of Paris Subway Signs.- Chapter 7 / Inquiring and experimenting with Urban Ecology: Pragmatist Lessons from Public Bicycle Repair.- Chapter 8 / Interruptions, Lunch Talks, and Support Circles: An Ethnography of Collective Repair in Steam Locomotive Restoration.- Part III: Politics.- Chapter 9 / Negotiating Repair: The Infrastructural Contexts of Practice and Power.- Chapter 10 / Inside the Bicycle: Repair Knowledge for All.- Chapter11 / Repair for the Masses? Gender and Care Work in the Fixers' Collective.- Afterword.- Chapter 12 / Repair as Transition: Time, Materiality, and Hope.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 306.46; Repairing -- Social aspects; Technology -- Social aspects; Material culture
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811321108
• Related ISBNs: 9789811321092
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