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Contents
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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
Michał 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 Crăciun
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
Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough
Ethnographic Responses
Edited by Francisco Martínez and Patrick Laviolette
340 pages, 69 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78920-331-8 Hb Published (September 2019)
eISBN 978-1-78920-332-5 eBook