Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough

Ethnographic Responses
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-331-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

Reihe: Politics of Repair

Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally, Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is both a process and also a consequence which is sought out—an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings, and leftovers. This volume develops an open-ended combination of empirical and theoretical questions including: What does it mean to claim that something is broken? At what point is something broken repairable? What are the social relationships that take place around repair? And how much tolerance for failure do our societies have?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martínez, Francisco

Laviolette, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Insiders’ Manual to Breakdown

Francisco Martínez

     Head, Hand, Heart: On Contradiction, Contingency and Repair

     Caitlin DeSilvey

Chapter 1. Underwater, Still Life: Multi-species Engagements with the Art Abject of a Wasted American Warship

Joshua O. Reno

     Beyond the Sparkle Zones

     Kathleen Stewart

Chapter 2. “Till Death Do Us Part”: The Making of Home Through Holding onto Objects

Tomás Errázuriz

     “The Lady is Not There”: Repairing Tita Meme as a Telecare User

     Tomás Sánchez Criado

Chapter 3. In the House of Un-Things: Decay and Deferral in a Vacated Bulgarian Home

Martin Demant Frederiksen

     Undisciplined Surfaces

     Mateusz Laszczkowski

Chapter 4. A Ride on the Elevator. Infrastructures of Brokenness and Repair in Georgia

Tamta Khalvashi

     Don’t Fix the Puddle: A Puddle Archive as Ethnographic Account of Sidewalk Assemblages

     Mirja Busch and Ignacio Farías

Chapter 5. What is in a Hole? Voids out of Place and Politics below the State in Georgia

Francisco Martínez

     Maintaining Whose Road?

     Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi

Chapter 6. Dirtscapes: Contest over Value, Garbage and Belonging in Istanbul

Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe

     Repairing Russia

     Michal Murawski

Chapter 7. Village Vintage in Southern Norway: Revitalisation and Vernacular Entrepreneurship in Culture Heritage Tourism

Sarah Holst Kjær

     A Story of Time Keepers

     Jérôme Denis and David Pontille

Chapter 8. Keeping Them “Swiss”. The Transfer and Appropriation of Techniques for Luxury Watch Repair in Hong-Kong

Hervé Munz

     Lost Battles of De-bobbling

     Magdalena Craciun

Chapter 9. Small Mutinies in the Comfortable Slot: The New Environmentalism as Repair

Eeva Berglund

     Why Stories About the Broken Down Snowmobiles Can Teach You A Lot About the Life in the Arctic Tundra

     Aimar Ventsel

Chapter 10. The Imperative of Repair: Fixing Bikes – For Free

Simon Batterbury and Tim Dant

     Repair and Responsibility: The Art of Doris Salcedo

     Siobhan Kattago

Chapter 11. Repair and (Re)creation: Broken Relationships and a Path Forward for Austrian Holocaust Survivors

Katja Seidel

     Living Switches

     Wladimir Sgibnev

Chapter 12. Brokenness and Normality in Design Culture

Adam Drazin

     And Then You See Yourself Disappear (in Iceland)

     Jason Pine

Epilogue: This Mess We’re In, Or Part Of

Patrick Laviolette

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martínez, Francisco
Francisco Martínez is a Lecturer in the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, 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.

Laviolette, Patrick
Patrick Laviolette is the co-editor of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures. With his work, he has developed an interdisciplinary understanding of material and visual-culture studies, as well as medical and environmental anthropology.

Francisco Martínez is a Lecturer in the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, 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.