Fixing Motorcycles in Post-Repair Societies : : Technology, Aesthetics and Gender / / Gabriel Jderu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Jderu, Gabriel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Politics of Repair ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (186 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800738782; 9783110997705
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800738782
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gabriel Jderu.

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 moment 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 male and females when fixing bikes.