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OverviewExploring 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? Full Product DetailsAuthor: Francisco Martinez , Patrick LaviolettePublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books Volume: 1 ISBN: 9781789203318ISBN 10: 1789203317 Pages: 340 Publication Date: 01 September 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Insiders' Manual to Breakdown Francisco Martinez Head, Hand, Heart: On Contradiction, Contingency and Repair Caitlin DeSilvey Chapter 1. Underwater, Still Life: Multi-species Engagements with the Art Abject of a Wasted American Warship Joshua O. Reno Beyond the Sparkle Zones Kathleen Stewart Chapter 2. Till Death Do Us Part : The Making of Home Through Holding onto Objects Tomas Errazuriz The Lady is Not There : Repairing Tita Meme as a Telecare User Tomas Sanchez Criado Chapter 3. In the House of Un-Things: Decay and Deferral in a Vacated Bulgarian Home Martin Demant Frederiksen Undisciplined Surfaces Mateusz Laszczkowski Chapter 4. A Ride on the Elevator. Infrastructures of Brokenness and Repair in Georgia Tamta Khalvashi Don't Fix the Puddle: A Puddle Archive as Ethnographic Account of Sidewalk Assemblages Mirja Busch and Ignacio Farias Chapter 5. What is in a Hole? Voids out of Place and Politics below the State in Georgia Francisco Martinez Maintaining Whose Road? Agnieszka Joniak-Luthi Chapter 6. Dirtscapes: Contest over Value, Garbage and Belonging in Istanbul Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe Repairing Russia Michal Murawski Chapter 7. Village Vintage in Southern Norway: Revitalisation and Vernacular Entrepreneurship in Culture Heritage Tourism Sarah Holst Kjaer A Story of Time Keepers Jerome Denis and David Pontille Chapter 8. Keeping Them Swiss . The Transfer and Appropriation of Techniques for Luxury Watch Repair in Hong-Kong Herve Munz Lost Battles of De-bobbling Magdalena Craciun Chapter 9. Small Mutinies in the Comfortable Slot: The New Environmentalism as Repair Eeva Berglund Why Stories About the Broken Down Snowmobiles Can Teach You A Lot About the Life in the Arctic Tundra Aimar Ventsel Chapter 10. The Imperative of Repair: Fixing Bikes - For Free Simon Batterbury and Tim Dant Repair and Responsibility: The Art of Doris Salcedo Siobhan Kattago Chapter 11. Repair and (Re)creation: Broken Relationships and a Path Forward for Austrian Holocaust Survivors Katja Seidel Living Switches Wladimir Sgibnev Chapter 12. Brokenness and Normality in Design Culture Adam Drazin And Then You See Yourself Disappear (in Iceland) Jason Pine Epilogue: This Mess We're In, Or Part Of Patrick Laviolette IndexReviewsWhat I like about this book is its richness in ideas, it opens up a wide range of issues and associations, it invites the reader to see surprising linkages and new aspects of the seemingly trivial everyday. There is a lot of inspiration here for a number of research fields. Orvar Loefgren, University of Lund This is a very original, interesting and critical piece of work. It manages to bring the political in touch with the existential in an enlightening and, at moments, moving way. Paolo SH Favero, University of Antwerp What I like about this book is its richness in ideas; it opens up a wide range of issues and associations, it invites the reader to see surprising linkages and new aspects of the seemingly trivial everyday. There is a lot of inspiration here for a number of research fields. * Orvar Loefgren, University of Lund This is a very original, interesting and critical piece of work. It manages to bring the political in touch with the existential in an enlightening and, at moments, moving way. * Paolo SH Favero, University of Antwerp Author InformationFrancisco Martinez is a Lecturer in the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, and member of the editorial team of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures. He has edited several books and is the author of Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia. An Anthropology of Repair, Forgetting and Urban Traces (UCL Press, 2018), which was awarded the Early Career Prize of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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