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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Batterbury, Simon,; Berglund, Eeva,; Busch, Mirja,; Crăciun, Magdalena,; Dant, Tim,; De Silvey, Caitlin,; Demant Frederiksen, Martin,; Denis, Jérôme,; Drazin, Adam,; Errázuriz, Tomás,; Farías, Ignacio,; Holst Kjær, Sarah,; Joniak-Lüthi, Agnieszka,; Kattago, Siobhan,; Khalvashi, Tamta,; Laszczkowski, Mateusz,; Laviolette, Patrick,; Martínez, Francisco,; Munz, Hervé,; Murawski, Michał,; Pine, Jason,; Pontille, David,; Reno, Joshua O.,; Seidel, Katja,; Sgibnev, Wladimir,; Stewart, Kathleen,; Sánchez Criado, Tomás,; Ventsel, Aimar,; Yildirim Tschoepe, Aylin,
• HerausgeberIn: Laviolette, Patrick,; Martínez, Francisco,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Politics of Repair ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)

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, wrongdo...

Table of 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