[Themaintainers] Themaintainers Digest, Vol 15, Issue 2

Thu May 4 12:16:28 EDT 2017

Hi all---following on Lee's point about mending, you might want to check
out Silvia Gherardi's work
<https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=pmJqJLoAAAAJ&hl=en>, as she uses
textile metaphors to describe organizational culture.

Best wishes,

Chris

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Christopher Henke
Faculty Director, The Upstate Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Colgate University
chenke at colgate.edu
http://www.colgate.edu/centers-and-institutes/upstate-institute
http://blogs.colgate.edu/sociology-and-anthropology/

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>    1. Re: Looking for bibliography: repair and material culture
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>    3. Re: Looking for bibliography: repair and material culture
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> Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 12:22:12 -0400
> From: Lee Vinsel <lee.vinsel at gmail.com>
> To: Steven Lubar <steven_lubar at brown.edu>
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> 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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> Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 12:48:28 -0400
> From: "Tom Okie" <wtokie at gmail.com>
> To: "Lee Vinsel" <lee.vinsel at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] Looking for bibliography: repair and
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> 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
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Assistant Professor and Director,
> > Program on Science and Technology Studies
> > College of Arts and Letters
> > Stevens Institute of Technology
> > Hoboken, NJ 07030
> > leevinsel.com
> > Twitter: @STS_News
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 18:02:31 +0100
> From: Boris Jardine <borisjardine at gmail.com>
> To: Tom Okie <wtokie at gmail.com>
> Cc: Lee Vinsel <lee.vinsel at gmail.com>, Steven Lubar
>         <steven_lubar at brown.edu>,       "themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu"
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> Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] Looking for bibliography: repair and
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> 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
>
> *?*
> * Dr Boris Jardine*
> *Leverhulme** Early Career Research Fellow*
> *Department of History and Philosophy of Science*
> *University of Cambridge*
> * ?*
>
> 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
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Assistant Professor and Director,
> > Program on Science and Technology Studies
> > College of Arts and Letters
> > Stevens Institute of Technology
> > Hoboken, NJ 07030
> > leevinsel.com
> > Twitter: @STS_News
> >
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