Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough
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Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough

Ethnographic Responses

  1. 339 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough

Ethnographic Responses

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781800736436
9781789203318
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781789203325
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. Introduction. Insiders’ Manual to Breakdown
  5. Snapshot 1. Head, Heart, Hand
  6. Chapter 1. Underwater, Still Life
  7. Snapshot 2. Beyond the Sparkle Zones
  8. Chapter 2. ‘Till Death Do Us Part’
  9. Snapshot 3. ‘The Lady Is Not Here’
  10. Chapter 3. In the House of Un-things
  11. Snapshot 4. Undisciplined Surfaces
  12. Chapter 4. A Ride on the Elevator
  13. Snapshot 5. Don’t Fix the Puddle
  14. Chapter 5. Whas Is in a Hole?
  15. Snapshot 6. Maintaining Whose Road?
  16. Chapter 6. Dirtscapes
  17. Snapshot 7. Repairing Russia
  18. Chapter 7. Village Vintage in Southern Norway
  19. Snapshot 8. A Story of Time Keepers
  20. Chapter 8. Keeping Them ‘Swiss’
  21. Snapshot 9. Lost Battles of De-bobbling
  22. Chapter 9. Small Mutinies in the Comfortable Slot
  23. Snapshot 10. Why Stories about Broken-Down Snowmobiles Can Teach You a Lot about Life in the Arctic Tundra
  24. Chapter 10. The Imperative of Repair
  25. Snapshot 11. Repair and Responsibility
  26. Chapter 11. Social Repair and (Re)Creation
  27. Snapshot 12. Living Switches
  28. Chapter 12. Brokenness and Normality in Design Culture
  29. Snapshot 13. And Then You See Yourself Disappear
  30. Epilogue. This Mess We’re in, or Part of
  31. Index

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