Repairing Infrastructures
The Maintenance of Materiality and Power
$79.60
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2021
Summary
An investigation of the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life.
Infrastructures—communication, food, transportation, energy, and information—are all around us, and their enduring function and influence depend on the constant work of repair. In this book, Christopher Henke and Benjamin Sims explore the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure rep…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262539708 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262539705 |
| Author: | Christopher R. Henke |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 358g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Infrastructures |
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Critics Review
”[R]eaders looking for an engaging contribution to the emerging field of repair studies will love this small volume. Henke and Sims introduce many of the current perspectives on repair, maintainers, and the important role they play in society. Furthermore, with their notions of ‘repair as maintenance,’ ‘repair as transformation,’ and ‘reflexive repair,’ they add an interesting new set of concepts to the discussion.“—Technology and Culture
About The Author
Christopher R. Henke
Christopher R. Henke is Associate Professor of Sociology at Colgate University. He is the author of Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power (MIT Press).
Benjamin Sims is a sociologist and scientist with the Statistical Sciences Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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