Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough: Ethnographic Responses

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, wrongdo...

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Other Authors: Martínez, Francisco 1982- (Editor), Laviolette, Patrick (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Berghahn Books [2019]
Series:Politics of Repair 1
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Links:https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781789203325/html
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789203325?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789203325?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789203325?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789203325?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789203325?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789203325?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789203325?locatt=mode:legacy
Summary: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?
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 327 Seiten)
ISBN:9781789203325
DOI:10.1515/9781789203325