Overview
- Provides a unique collection of ethnographies offering empirical insight into the locally unfolding work of repair, in and across multiple situations of technology use and material practice
- Addresses repair work as a multifaceted phenomenon unfolding sequentially before, during and after failure, wear, deterioration, weakening etc. for a qualified and diversified readership in anthropology, sociology, and STS scholarship
- Makes a critical contribution to relocating materiality, recasting the recent, largely conceptual debates in anthropology, sociology, and science and technology studies (STS) around notions of “materiality”, “socio-materiality”, or “non-human agency” in terms of the situated intelligibility of unfolding courses of repair work
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“The book offers a fascinating exploration of a diversity of material disruptions within everyday routines. The way disruptions are identified, made intelligible, and handled in order to be repaired (or not), highlights the in vivo engagement of social actors with material objects. This collection of ethnographies of repair beautifully reveals how objectual practices are at the core of the socio-material order.” (Lorenza Mondada, Professor of General Linguistics and French Linguistics, University of Basel, Switzerland)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alain Bovet is a professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HEG-Arc, HES-SO) and a senior scientist at the University of Lausanne. Interested in various communication processes, from everyday interaction to public controversies, he is currently engaged in a video analysis of the work of caretakers and technicians in urban housing.
Philippe Sormani is a sociologist working at the intersection of ethnography, ethnomethodology, and science and technology studies, focusing on material disruption and its heuristic implications. Currently, he is affiliated at the Institut Marcel Mauss, EHESS, in Paris and board member of the STS lab at the University of Lausanne.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Repair Work Ethnographies
Book Subtitle: Revisiting Breakdown, Relocating Materiality
Editors: Ignaz Strebel, Alain Bovet, Philippe Sormani
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2110-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-2109-2Published: 31 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-2110-8Published: 14 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 351
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Anthropology, Human Geography, Sociology, general