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Repair Work Ethnographies

Revisiting Breakdown, Relocating Materiality

Alain Bovet editor Ignaz Strebel editor Philippe Sormani editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer Verlag, Singapore

Published:31st Jan '19

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This pioneering book homes in on repair as an everyday practice. Bringing together exemplary ethnographies of repair work around the world, it examines the politics of repair, its work settings and intricate networks, in and across a wide range of situations, lay and professional. The book evidences the topical relevance of situated inquiry into breakdown, repair, and maintenance for engaging with the contemporary world more broadly. Airplanes and artworks, bicycles and buildings, cars and computers, medical devices and mobile phones, as virtually any commodity, infrastructure or technical artifact, have in common their occasional breakdown, if not inbuilt obsolescence. Hence the point and purpose of closely examining how and when they are fixed.

“The book’s excellent organization, form an ongoing conversation as they make the familiar strange by collectively approaching order from the standpoint of breakdown and repair. Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above.” (A. Shiva, Choice, Vol. 56 (12), August, 2019)

ISBN: 9789811321092

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

351 pages

1st ed. 2019