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Fixing Motorcycles in Post-Repair Societies - Gabriel Jderu

Fixing Motorcycles in Post-Repair Societies

Technology, Aesthetics and Gender

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Buch | Hardcover
166 Seiten
2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-877-5 (ISBN)
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Most social science studies on automobility have focused on the production, usage, identity construction and aesthetic improvements of personal means of transportation. What happens if we shift the focus to the labour, knowledge and social relations that go into the unavoidable moments of maintenance and repair? Taking motorcycling in Romania as an ethnographic entry point, this book documents how bikers handle the inevitable moments of malfunction and breakdown. Using both mobile and sedentary research methods, the book describes the joys and troubles experienced by amateur mechanics, professional mechanics and untechnical men and women when fixing bikes.

Gabriel Jderu is a sociology professor, ethnographer, and, since 2012, a certified mechanic. He teaches Research Methods and The Sociology of the Body at the Department of Sociology, University of Bucharest, Romania.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments



Introduction: Fixing Motorcycles in Post-repair Societies



Chapter 1. Shifting Frames of Motorcycling Maintenance and Repair in Romania

Chapter 2. Maintenance and Repair Work in a Repair Society

Chapter 3. The Digitization of Motorcycling, Post-repair Society and A-technical Bikers

Chapter 4. Female Bikers and the Barriers to Motorcycling

Chapter 5. Women Who Repair Bikes: Gender and Repair Networks

Chapter 6. Post-repair Pedagogies: A-technical Bikers and Retro-repair



Conclusion: From the repair society to post-repair subjectivities



References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Politics of Repair
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
Technik Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10 1-80073-877-3 / 1800738773
ISBN-13 978-1-80073-877-5 / 9781800738775
Zustand Neuware
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