Repair Work Ethnographies Gebunden

This pioneering book homes in on repair as an everyday practice. Bringing together exemplary ethnographies of repair work around the world it examines the politics of repair its work settings and intricate networks in and across a wide range of situations lay and professional. The book evidences the topical relevance of situated inquiry into breakdown repair and maintenance for engaging with the contemporary world more broadly. Airplanes and artworks bicycles and buildings cars and computers medical devices and mobile phones as virtually any commodity infrastructure or technical art ifact have in common their occasional breakdown if not inbuilt obsolescence. Hence the point and purpose of closely examining how and when they are fixed.