[Themaintainers] Themaintainers Digest, Vol 15, Issue 4
Lubar, Steven
lubar at brown.edu
Sat May 6 11:32:10 EDT 2017
Thanks to all who have offered bibliography and advice on this new project
on repair. There are some wonderful approaches to the topic out there -
I've got lots of reading to do! I'll be back on the listserv after I have a
chance to figure out more about the project.
Best, and thanks again,
Steve
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> Hi Steve (and all)
>
> On the mending and material culture front I?d suggest looking at Daniela
> Rosner?s work (which explores digital craft across many forms and
> iterations). This article includes textiles in a study of gender in the new
> public repair movement -
> http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~daniela/files/Rosner_Public_Culture.pdf
>
> This piece on Binding and Ageing with Alex Taylor is really lovely-
> http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359183512459630
>
> Jones Middleton is a brilliant PhD candidate working on mending and new
> materialism, who has this short piece in the handbook of sustainable
> fashion -
> http://katefletcher.com/publications/books/routledge-handbook-of-sustainability-and-fashion/
>
> You might also want to see some practitioners of visible mending in a
> conference she co-organised called Mendrs back in 2012 -
> https://futuremenders.wordpress.com
>
> On the material culture front, the DaSilvey and Edensor pieces in the
> crowdsourced bibliography already linked to are especially wonderful.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Lara
>
>
>
> _______
> Dr Lara Houston
> Postdoctoral Researcher
> Citizen Sense <http://www.citizensense.net/>
>
> Department of Sociology
> Goldsmiths, University of London
> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
> United Kingdom
>
> Editor - Continent. R3PAIR Volume <http://continentcontinent.cc/>
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>
> > On 4 May 2017, at 17:16, Christopher Henke <chenke at colgate.edu> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > Christopher Henke
> > Faculty Director, The Upstate Institute
> > Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
> > Colgate University
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> > Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 12:22:12 -0400
> > From: Lee Vinsel <lee.vinsel at gmail.com <mailto:lee.vinsel at gmail.com>>
> > To: Steven Lubar <steven_lubar at brown.edu <mailto: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
> <
> 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
> <
> 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
> <mailto: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
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> > To: "Lee Vinsel" <lee.vinsel at gmail.com <mailto:lee.vinsel at gmail.com>>
> > Cc: Steven Lubar <steven_lubar at brown.edu <mailto:steven_lubar at brown.edu
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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
> <
> 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
> <
> 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
> <mailto: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 <http://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 <mailto:
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> > To: Tom Okie <wtokie at gmail.com <mailto:wtokie at gmail.com>>
> > Cc: Lee Vinsel <lee.vinsel at gmail.com <mailto:lee.vinsel at gmail.com>>,
> Steven Lubar
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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 <
> https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087412000696>
> > http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14782804.2016.1249672 <
> 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 <mailto:
> 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 <
> http://www.wohnforum.arch/>.
> > > ethz.ch/sites/default/files/dateien/bibliography_repair_ <
> http://ethz.ch/sites/default/files/dateien/bibliography_repair_>
> > > work10.03.2015_2.pdf
> > >
> > > See also their project description: http://www.wohnforum.arch <
> http://www.wohnforum.arch/>.
> > > ethz.ch/en/repair-maintenance-and-urban-assemblage <
> http://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
> <mailto: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
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> > > Twitter: @STS_News
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> Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 09:15:51 -0700
> From: Nina Lerman <lermanne at whitman.edu>
> To: themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu
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> material culture
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> hi all (hi Steve!),
>
> Thanks Lara for all these material culture citations and links!
>
> In the history literature, textile repair usually turns up with household
> mending. It is indeed interesting the way these words shift form and
> connotation: one repairs shoes but one tends to mend cloth.
>
> So, as Ruth suggests, maintaining textiles involves laundry, and also
> often starching and ironing. There are a range of chemical processes here,
> historically involving ?production? (soap) as well as cleaning and further
> processing to return the textile (especially clothing) to its ?use?
> condition.
>
> Repairs include
> mending, darning, patching
> alteration (remaking older clothes for new person, pregnant body, old
> styles/new styles, etc)
> storing
>
> Marla Miller compares New England gown makers to blacksmiths as mostly not
> scale-up enterprises: ??blacksmiths and gownmakers both continued to make
> and to mend products used locally? (she also compares men?s tailoring to
> the furniture trade, shifting to ready-made production rather than
> remaining at least partly in a service economy). Miller, The Needle?s Eye
> (UMass, 2006) p. 194.
>
> Book indexes seem to replicate these overlaps: even in books with many
> mentions of ?mending? it?s not indexed, and ?sewing? is the closest entree.
> But discussions of household labor routinely include fragments from diaries
> and domestic manuals on maintenance and mending.
> In addition to the already mentioned works by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich,
> Arwen Mohun, and Susan Strasser, and Miller (above) a few more with mending
> and laundering scattered througout:
> Jeane Boydston, Home and Work (New England again) Miller,
> Wendy Gamber,, The Female Economy (dressmaking ? lots of Boston but also
> other cities)
> Glenda RIley, The Female Frontier (plains and prairie)
>
> For further specification of technique, school needlework books are
> useful, now digitized!:
> Hapgood, Olive C. School Needlework. A Course of Study in Sewing Designed
> for Use in Schools. Boston, Ginn & company, 1893.
> http://archive.org/details/schoolneedlework00hapgrich. ?see both the
> directions for darning, etc, and also in the teachers? pages, notes on
> ?boys? sewing,? it turns out they may need to repair their clothing. And,
> the educators, at least, seem to have figured out the usefulness of the
> word ?repair?
> Claydon, Ellen P., and C. A. Claydon. Needlework Without ?specimens?: The
> Modern Book of School Needlework. New York, E.P. Dutton & co., 1900.
> http://archive.org/details/needleworkwithou00clay. ? several pages at the
> end on ?repair"
>
>
> I?m thinking that household ?maintenance? creates a new set of challenges
> to the ?maintainers? category.
> Most materially food storage, a few quick notes:
> Sarah McMahon, Laying Foods By, in McGaw, ed Early American Technology
> Glenda Riley, above
> much more, root cellars through freezer chests and canning.
>
> But what of all the larger realm of gendered spaces and tasks: what is
> ?maintenance??
> ?feeding kids & menfolk
> ?healing/keeping household healthy
> ?keeping garden, chickens
> ?dairy work
>
> What happens if the old category ?reproductive work? is reclassified with
> the other ?maintainers??
>
> Please pardon my quick-ish brain dump, ask if I?m unclear, crazy week
> Best wishes,
> Nina
>
>
> On May 5, 2017, at 8:21 AM, Lara Houston <phd at labmeta.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi Steve (and all)
> >
> > On the mending and material culture front I?d suggest looking at Daniela
> Rosner?s work (which explores digital craft across many forms and
> iterations). This article includes textiles in a study of gender in the new
> public repair movement -
> http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~daniela/files/Rosner_Public_Culture.pdf
> >
> > This piece on Binding and Ageing with Alex Taylor is really lovely-
> http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359183512459630
> >
> > Jones Middleton is a brilliant PhD candidate working on mending and new
> materialism, who has this short piece in the handbook of sustainable
> fashion -
> http://katefletcher.com/publications/books/routledge-handbook-of-sustainability-and-fashion/
> >
> > You might also want to see some practitioners of visible mending in a
> conference she co-organised called Mendrs back in 2012 -
> https://futuremenders.wordpress.com
> >
> > On the material culture front, the DaSilvey and Edensor pieces in the
> crowdsourced bibliography already linked to are especially wonderful.
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
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> >> On 4 May 2017, at 17:16, Christopher Henke <chenke at colgate.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all---following on Lee's point about mending, you might want to
> check out Silvia Gherardi's work, as she uses textile metaphors to describe
> organizational culture.
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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> >> 1. Re: Looking for bibliography: repair and material culture
> >> (Lee Vinsel)
> >> 2. Re: Looking for bibliography: repair and material culture
> >> (Tom Okie)
> >> 3. Re: Looking for bibliography: repair and material culture
> >> (Boris Jardine)
> >>
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Message: 1
> >> 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>
> >> Cc: "themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu"
> >> <themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu>
> >> Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] Looking for bibliography: repair and
> >> material culture
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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
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Assistant Professor and Director,
> >> Program on Science and Technology Studies
> >> College of Arts and Letters
> >> Stevens Institute of Technology
> >> Hoboken, NJ 07030
> >> leevinsel.com
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> >> Message: 2
> >> Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 12:48:28 -0400
> >> From: "Tom Okie" <wtokie at gmail.com>
> >> To: "Lee Vinsel" <lee.vinsel at gmail.com>
> >> Cc: Steven Lubar <steven_lubar at brown.edu>,
> >> "themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu" <
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> >> Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] Looking for bibliography: repair and
> >> material culture
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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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> >> Message: 3
> >> 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"
> >> <themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu>
> >> Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] Looking for bibliography: repair and
> >> material culture
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> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> >>
> >> 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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