[Themaintainers] Looking for bibliography: repair and material culture

[Boris Jardine]

Hi Steve, all,

I'd recommend looking at Simon Werrett's work on 'recycling' (considered
very broadly!). His book will be out soonish, but until then here are two
articles:

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087412000696
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14782804.2016.1249672

All best,
Boris

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On 3 May 2017 at 17:48, Tom Okie <wtokie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Steve, and Lee,
> I’d certainly add Susan Strasser, *Waste and Want* to that list,
> especially for her fascinating description of the global rag trade from
> rural housewives, to tin peddlers, to the rag rooms of urban paper mills.
>
> Tom Okie
>
> On 3 May 2017, at 12:22, Lee Vinsel wrote:
>
> Hi, Steve!
>
> Thanks for the question. For a general bibliography of maintenance/repair,
> I've seen lots of folks—including Andy Russell and me—rely on this handy
> list put together by Alain Bovet of the Wohnforum at ETH Zurich (note: it
> doesn't capture publications post-2015): http://www.wohnforum.arch.
> ethz.ch/sites/default/files/dateien/bibliography_repair_
> work10.03.2015_2.pdf
>
> See also their project description: http://www.wohnforum.arch.
> ethz.ch/en/repair-maintenance-and-urban-assemblage
>
> Regarding textiles, I don't have specific sources, though I am generally
> interested in how some industrialized nations moved from a world where
> repairing clothing was the norm to a world where most clothing was/is
> disposable. (Historian Nina Lerman got me thinking about this.) With this
> thought in mind, I've been hoping to return to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's
> _Age of Homespun_ to see if she addresses any of these themes. (She does
> cover many maintenance/repair related topics in her midwife book.)
>
> I also know that some STS scholars are interested in the
> maintenance/repair of textiles and have been exploring related,
> typically-gendered metaphors, like "mending." But sadly I don't know where
> to point you for this work. Perhaps some other folks on this list will know.
>
> Best,
>
> Lee
>
> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Steven Lubar <steven_lubar at brown.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Any suggestions for readings that might be useful for a graduate course?
>> I'm especially interested in textiles.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>
>
>
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