{"product_id":"repair-brokenness-breakthrough-ethnographic-responses-9781789203318","title":"Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough: Ethnographic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tExploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally, \u003cem\u003eRepair, Brokenness, Breakthrough\u003c\/em\u003e 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“There are many compelling, evocative, and insightful contributions here that will appeal to a very broad readership from undergraduates to specialist researchers.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Anthropologists, sociologists, human geographers and STS scholars who research the affective expressions of brokenness and repair will find this book particularly helpful. In discussing social identities and relationships, ethical stances, as well as novel aesthetic and affective formations, this book offers a holistic take on the dialectics of breaking and fixing that is not only intellectually stimulating but also politically timely.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Social Anthropology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“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.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Orvar Löfgren\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Lund\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“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.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Paolo SH Favero\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Antwerp\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Insiders’ Manual to Breakdown\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFrancisco Martínez\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t     Head, Hand, Heart: On Contradiction, Contingency and Repair\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e     Caitlin DeSilvey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Underwater, Still Life: Multi-species Engagements with the Art Abject of a Wasted American Warship\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJoshua O. Reno\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t     Beyond the Sparkle Zones\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e     Kathleen Stewart\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e “Till Death Do Us Part”: The Making of Home Through Holding onto Objects\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTomás Errázuriz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t     “The Lady is Not There”: Repairing Tita Meme as a Telecare User\u003cbr\u003e \t     \u003cem\u003eTomás Sánchez Criado\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e In the House of Un-Things: Decay and Deferral in a Vacated Bulgarian Home\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMartin Demant Frederiksen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t     Undisciplined Surfaces\u003cbr\u003e \t     \u003cem\u003eMateusz Laszczkowski\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e A Ride on the Elevator. Infrastructures of Brokenness and Repair in Georgia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTamta Khalvashi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t     Don’t Fix the Puddle: A Puddle Archive as Ethnographic Account of Sidewalk Assemblages\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e     Mirja Busch and Ignacio Farías\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e What is in a Hole? Voids out of Place and Politics below the State in Georgia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFrancisco Martínez\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t     Maintaining Whose Road?\u003cbr\u003e \t     \u003cem\u003eAgnieszka Joniak-Lüthi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Dirtscapes: Contest over Value, Garbage and Belonging in Istanbul\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAylin Yildirim Tschoepe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t     Repairing Russia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e     Michał Murawski\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Village Vintage in Southern Norway: Revitalisation and Vernacular Entrepreneurship in Culture Heritage Tourism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSarah Holst Kjær\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t     A Story of Time Keepers\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e     Jérôme Denis and David Pontille\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Keeping Them “Swiss”. The Transfer and Appropriation of Techniques for Luxury Watch Repair in Hong-Kong\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHervé Munz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t     Lost Battles of De-bobbling\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e     Magdalena Crăciun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Small Mutinies in the Comfortable Slot: The New Environmentalism as Repair\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEeva Berglund\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t     Why Stories About the Broken Down Snowmobiles Can Teach You A Lot About the Life in the Arctic Tundra\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e     Aimar Ventsel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Imperative of Repair: Fixing Bikes – For Free\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSimon Batterbury and Tim Dant\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t     Repair and Responsibility: The Art of Doris Salcedo\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e     Siobhan Kattago\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Repair and (Re)creation: Broken Relationships and a Path Forward for Austrian Holocaust Survivors\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKatja Seidel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t     Living Switches\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e     Wladimir Sgibnev\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Brokenness and Normality in Design Culture\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAdam Drazin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t     And Then You See Yourself Disappear (in Iceland)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e     Jason Pine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eEpilogue:\u003c\/strong\u003e This Mess We’re In, Or Part Of\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePatrick Laviolette\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042554544471,"sku":"9781789203318","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789203318.jpg?v=1750954618","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/repair-brokenness-breakthrough-ethnographic-responses-9781789203318","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}