Article ID: CBB490647925

Maintenance and Repair Work (2019)

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This essay review evaluates recent contributions in the field of maintenance and repair studies with a focus on a special issue of "Tecnoscienza" on this research field and a volume edited by Ignaz Strebel, Alain Bovet, and Philippe Sormani entitled "Repair Work Ethnographies: Revisiting Breakdown, Relocating Materiality." These two publications provide important insights into empirical investigations of maintenance and repair work which raise stimulating questions for engineering studies, where these activities are often overlooked.

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Authors & Contributors
Pontille, David
Denis, Jérôme
Jacob, Marie-Andrée
Mandy de Wilde
Christian Clausen
Juan Francisco Salazar
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Maintenance and repair
Ethnography
Essays
Infrastructure
Mobility
Time Periods
21st century
Places
United States
Paris (France)
Philadelphia, PA
Puget Sound
Thailand
Cambodia
Institutions
Committee on Publication Ethics
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