Repair Work Ethnographies Revisiting Breakdown, Relocating Materiality /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Strebel, Ignaz (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bovet, Alain (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sormani, Philippe (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Ethnology.; Human geography.; Sociology.; Social Anthropology.; Human Geography.; Sociology, general.
• Φυσική περιγραφή: XXI, 351 p. 46 illus., 37 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9789811321108
• DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-2110-8

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.