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Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough : Ethnographic Responses / ed. by Patrick Laviolette, Francisco Martínez.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Politics of Repair ; 1Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789203318
  • 9781789203325
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction. Insiders’ Manual to Breakdown -- Snapshot 1. Head, Heart, Hand: On Contradiction, Contingency and Repair -- Chapter 1. Underwater, Still Life: Multi-species Engagements with the Art Abject of a Wasted American Warship -- Snapshot 2. Beyond the Sparkle Zones -- Chapter 2. ‘Till Death Do Us Part’: The Making of Home through Holding on to Objects -- Snapshot 3. ‘The Lady Is Not Here’: Repairing Tita Meme as a Telecare User -- Chapter 3. In the House of Un-things: Decay and Deferral in a Vacated Bulgarian Home -- Snapshot 4. Undisciplined Surfaces -- Chapter 4. A Ride on the Elevator: Infrastructures of Brokenness and Repair in Georgia -- Snapshot 5. Don’t Fix the Puddle: A Puddle Archive as Ethnographic Account of Sidewalk Assemblages -- Chapter 5. What Is in a Hole? Voids out of Place and Politics below the State in Georgia -- Snapshot 6. Maintaining Whose Road? -- Chapter 6. Dirtscapes: Contest over Value, Garbage and Belonging in Istanbul -- Snapshot 7. Repairing Russia -- Chapter 7. Village Vintage in Southern Norway: Revitalisation and Vernacular Entrepreneurship in Culture Heritage Tourism -- Snapshot 8. A Story of Time Keepers -- Chapter 8. Keeping Them ‘Swiss’: The Transfer and Appropriation of Techniques for Luxury-Watch Repair in Hong Kong -- Snapshot 9. Lost Battles of De-bobbling -- Chapter 9. Small Mutinies in the Comfortable Slot: The New Environmentalism as Repair -- Snapshot 10. Why Stories about Broken-Down Snowmobiles Can Teach You a Lot about Life in the Arctic Tundra -- Chapter 10. The Imperative of Repair: Fixing Bikes – for Free -- Snapshot 11. Repair and Responsibility: The Art of Doris Salcedo -- Chapter 11. Social Repair and (Re)Creation: Broken Relationships and a Path Forward for Austrian Holocaust Survivors -- Snapshot 12. Living Switches -- Chapter 12. Brokenness and Normality in Design Culture -- Snapshot 13. And Then You See Yourself Disappear -- Epilogue. This Mess We’re in, or Part of -- Index
Summary: Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally, Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is both a process and also a consequence which is sought out—an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings, and leftovers. This volume develops an open-ended combination of empirical and theoretical questions including: What does it mean to claim that something is broken? At what point is something broken repairable? What are the social relationships that take place around repair? And how much tolerance for failure do our societies have?
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction. Insiders’ Manual to Breakdown -- Snapshot 1. Head, Heart, Hand: On Contradiction, Contingency and Repair -- Chapter 1. Underwater, Still Life: Multi-species Engagements with the Art Abject of a Wasted American Warship -- Snapshot 2. Beyond the Sparkle Zones -- Chapter 2. ‘Till Death Do Us Part’: The Making of Home through Holding on to Objects -- Snapshot 3. ‘The Lady Is Not Here’: Repairing Tita Meme as a Telecare User -- Chapter 3. In the House of Un-things: Decay and Deferral in a Vacated Bulgarian Home -- Snapshot 4. Undisciplined Surfaces -- Chapter 4. A Ride on the Elevator: Infrastructures of Brokenness and Repair in Georgia -- Snapshot 5. Don’t Fix the Puddle: A Puddle Archive as Ethnographic Account of Sidewalk Assemblages -- Chapter 5. What Is in a Hole? Voids out of Place and Politics below the State in Georgia -- Snapshot 6. Maintaining Whose Road? -- Chapter 6. Dirtscapes: Contest over Value, Garbage and Belonging in Istanbul -- Snapshot 7. Repairing Russia -- Chapter 7. Village Vintage in Southern Norway: Revitalisation and Vernacular Entrepreneurship in Culture Heritage Tourism -- Snapshot 8. A Story of Time Keepers -- Chapter 8. Keeping Them ‘Swiss’: The Transfer and Appropriation of Techniques for Luxury-Watch Repair in Hong Kong -- Snapshot 9. Lost Battles of De-bobbling -- Chapter 9. Small Mutinies in the Comfortable Slot: The New Environmentalism as Repair -- Snapshot 10. Why Stories about Broken-Down Snowmobiles Can Teach You a Lot about Life in the Arctic Tundra -- Chapter 10. The Imperative of Repair: Fixing Bikes – for Free -- Snapshot 11. Repair and Responsibility: The Art of Doris Salcedo -- Chapter 11. Social Repair and (Re)Creation: Broken Relationships and a Path Forward for Austrian Holocaust Survivors -- Snapshot 12. Living Switches -- Chapter 12. Brokenness and Normality in Design Culture -- Snapshot 13. And Then You See Yourself Disappear -- Epilogue. This Mess We’re in, or Part of -- Index

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Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally, Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is both a process and also a consequence which is sought out—an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings, and leftovers. This volume develops an open-ended combination of empirical and theoretical questions including: What does it mean to claim that something is broken? At what point is something broken repairable? What are the social relationships that take place around repair? And how much tolerance for failure do our societies have?

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In English.

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