eBook - ePub
Fixing Motorcycles in Post-Repair Societies
Technology, Aesthetics and Gender
- 186 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
About this book
Most social science studies on automobility have focused on the production, usage, identity construction and aesthetic improvements of personal means of transportation. What happens if we shift the focus to the labour, knowledge and social relations that go into the unavoidable moments of maintenance and repair? Taking motorcycling in Romania as an ethnographic entry point, this book documents how bikers handle the inevitable moments of malfunction and breakdown. Using both mobile and sedentary research methods, the book describes the joys and troubles experienced by amateur mechanics, professional mechanics and untechnical men and women when fixing bikes.
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Yes, you can access Fixing Motorcycles in Post-Repair Societies by Gabriel Jderu in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Personal Development & Cultural & Social Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction. Fixing Motorcycles in Post-Repair Societies
- Chapter 1. Shifting Frames of Motorcycling Maintenance and Repair in Romania
- Chapter 2. Maintenance and Repair Work in a Repair Society
- Chapter 3. The Digitization of Motorcycling, Post-Repair Society and A-Technical Bikers
- Chapter 4. Female Bikers and the Barriers to Motorcycling
- Chapter 5. Women Who Repair Bikes: Gender and Repair Networks
- Chapter 6. Post-Repair Pedagogies: A-Technical Bikers and Retro-Repair
- Conclusion. From the Repair Society to Post-Repair Subjectivities
- References
- Index