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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Politics of Repair ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (186 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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