Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough

Ethnographic Responses

Av Francisco Martínez, Patrick Laviolette

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Beskrivning

What does it mean to claim that something is broken? What is the connection between tinkering and innovation? And how much tolerance for failure do our societies have? Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally, Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings and leftovers. The set of contributions illustrates the strong affective power hidden in situations of disrepair and repair; broken objects often bring strong emotions into play, but also energising reactions of creative action.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2019-09-30
Mått: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt: 644 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Serie: Politics of Repair
Antal sidor: 340
Förlag: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781789203318

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Francisco Martinez is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki, and member of the editorial team of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures. He has edited several books and is the author of Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia. An Anthropology of Repair, Forgetting and Urban Traces (UCL Press, 2018), which was awarded the Early Career Prize of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.Patrick Laviolette holds a PHD from, University College London, UCL, where he developed an interdisciplinary understanding of material and visual-culture studies as well as medical and environmental anthropology. He is currently finishing a monograph on the significance of hitchhiking in the 21st century.

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"What I like about this book is its richness in ideas, it opens up a wide range of issues and associations, it invites the reader to see surprising linkages and new aspects of the seemingly trivial everyday. There is a lot of inspiration here for a number of research fields." Orvar Loefgren, University of Lund"This is a very original, interesting and critical piece of work. It manages to bring the political in touch with the existential in an enlightening and, at moments, moving way." Paolo SH Favero, University of Antwerp

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