Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough

Francisco Martínez is a Lecturer in the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, and member of the editorial team of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures. He has edited several books and is the author of Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia. An Anthropology of Repair, Forgetting and Urban Traces (UCL Press, 2018), which was awarded the Early Career Prize of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.

“There are many compelling, evocative, and insightful contributions here that will appeal to a very broad readership from undergraduates to specialist researchers.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)“Anthropologists, sociologists, human geographers and STS scholars who research the affective expressions of brokenness and repair will find this book particularly helpful. In discussing social identities and relationships, ethical stances, as well as novel aesthetic and affective formations, this book offers a holistic take on the dialectics of breaking and fixing that is not only intellectually stimulating but also politically timely.” • Social Anthropology“What I like about this book is its richness in ideas; it opens up a wide range of issues and associations, it invites the reader to see surprising linkages and new aspects of the seemingly trivial everyday. There is a lot of inspiration here for a number of research fields.” • Orvar Löfgren, University of Lund“This is a very original, interesting and critical piece of work. It manages to bring the political in touch with the existential in an enlightening and, at moments, moving way.” • Paolo SH Favero, University of Antwerp

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Insiders’ Manual to BreakdownFrancisco MartínezHead, Hand, Heart: On Contradiction, Contingency and RepairCaitlin DeSilveyChapter 1. Underwater, Still Life: Multi-species Engagements with the Art Abject of a Wasted American WarshipJoshua O. RenoBeyond the Sparkle ZonesKathleen StewartChapter 2. “Till Death Do Us Part”: The Making of Home Through Holding onto ObjectsTomás Errázuriz“The Lady is Not There”: Repairing Tita Meme as a Telecare UserTomás Sánchez CriadoChapter 3. In the House of Un-Things: Decay and Deferral in a Vacated Bulgarian HomeMartin Demant FrederiksenUndisciplined SurfacesMateusz LaszczkowskiChapter 4. A Ride on the Elevator. Infrastructures of Brokenness and Repair in GeorgiaTamta KhalvashiDon’t Fix the Puddle: A Puddle Archive as Ethnographic Account of Sidewalk AssemblagesMirja Busch and Ignacio FaríasChapter 5. What is in a Hole? Voids out of Place and Politics below the State in GeorgiaFrancisco MartínezMaintaining Whose Road?Agnieszka Joniak-LüthiChapter 6. Dirtscapes: Contest over Value, Garbage and Belonging in IstanbulAylin Yildirim TschoepeRepairing RussiaMichał MurawskiChapter 7. Village Vintage in Southern Norway: Revitalisation and Vernacular Entrepreneurship in Culture Heritage TourismSarah Holst KjærA Story of Time KeepersJérôme Denis and David PontilleChapter 8. Keeping Them “Swiss”. The Transfer and Appropriation of Techniques for Luxury Watch Repair in Hong-KongHervé MunzLost Battles of De-bobblingMagdalena CrăciunChapter 9. Small Mutinies in the Comfortable Slot: The New Environmentalism as RepairEeva BerglundWhy Stories About the Broken Down Snowmobiles Can Teach You A Lot About the Life in the Arctic TundraAimar VentselChapter 10. The Imperative of Repair: Fixing Bikes – For FreeSimon Batterbury and Tim DantRepair and Responsibility: The Art of Doris SalcedoSiobhan KattagoChapter 11. Repair and (Re)creation: Broken Relationships and a Path Forward for Austrian Holocaust SurvivorsKatja SeidelLiving SwitchesWladimir SgibnevChapter 12. Brokenness and Normality in Design CultureAdam DrazinAnd Then You See Yourself Disappear (in Iceland)Jason PineEpilogue: This Mess We’re In, Or Part OfPatrick LavioletteIndex