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 artifact have in common their occasional
breakdown if not inbuilt obsolescence. Hence the point and purpose of closely examining how
and when they are fixed.
