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  • - Ethnographic Responses
     
    1.489,95 kr.

    We are all repairers. Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings and leftovers.

  • - Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement
     
    1.386,95 kr.

    The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions - is now a part of our lives. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive...

  • af Patrick Laviolette & Francisco Martinez
    389,95 kr.

  • af Gabriel Jderu
    1.228,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Alvaro Jarrín
    390,95 kr.

    The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions - is now part of our lives. Humanity is confronted with a variety of affordable and non-invasive 'enhancement technologies': anti-ageing medicine, aesthetic surgery, cognitive and sexual enhancers, lifestyle drugs, prosthetics and hormone supplements. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive and provides ethnographic insights into people's motives and aspirations as they embrace or reject enhancement technologies, which are closely entangled with negotiations over gender, class, age, nationality and ethnicity.

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