Fixing Motorcycles in Post-Repair Societies (eBook)

Technology, Aesthetics and Gender

Gabriel Jderu (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2023
166 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-878-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.3.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Politics of Repair
• Reihe/Serie: Politics of Repair
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
• Schlagworte: automobility • Blackboxing • CARS • digitization • Dirt • emotional labour • Engines • ethnography • Europe • Expert Systems • heterogenous networks • Maintenance and Repair • Masculine domination • Masculinity • Mechanics • Mobility Studies, Sociology, Gender Studies and Sexuality • Motorcycles • Networks • Oil • pan-repair • post-repair society • Post-War • Repair • repair aesthetics • repair shop • Repair society • repair standby • repair talks • Socialism • Social Networks • Transportation • Travel • Women
• ISBN-10: 1-80073-878-1 / 1800738781
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80073-878-2 / 9781800738782