[Themaintainers] repair work and health

[Amy Moran-Thomas]

Hello all,


For anyone interested in the health and medical dimen​sions of maintenance work, I wanted to share this virtual talk and discussion upcoming tomorrow, which engages with the work of many on this list — open to the public, all are welcome!

Warmly,

Amy



REPAIR WORK: What Diabetic Limb Salvage Reveals about an Overlooked Epidemic <https://indd.adobe.com/view/1fd5320e-9787-4e8c-99be-54b1bc13bdc2>


As chronic conditions like diabetes rise globally, technologies and bodies often break down together.  This talk follows the stories of people “trying to maintain” in a Caribbean health system where diabetes has become the leading cause of death nationwide—leading to increasingly reliance on health infrastructures to sustain life and prevent serious complications such as limb loss and blindness. Alongside the important attention sparked by the work of STS scholars such as Steven Jackson around “repair work” and maintenance practices, citizen advocacy in the diabetes context also recalls the earlier use of “repair work” by Toni Morrison, when she described attempts to heal against the injuries of plantation landscapes and racial inequities.  This ethnography follows the work of health advocates bringing together what have often been two distinct conversations about “repair work” — the repair of infrastructures, and questions historical repair.  What might be learned by placing these key conversations in closer dialogue?


(Registration here<https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t4lwRn8NSQWUsZ2PSnbpQQ>.)​


Amy Moran-Thomas
Hayes Associate Professor
MIT Anthropology
77 Massachusetts Ave, E53-335
Cambridge, MA 02139
amorant at mit.edu | 617-324-7439​​

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From: themaintainers-bounces at lists.stevens.edu <themaintainers-bounces at lists.stevens.edu> on behalf of Chris Henke <chenke at colgate.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 1:43 PM
To: Nick Blankenberg
Cc: themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu
Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] new book: repairing infrastructures

Apologies---again!---for botching the link. This is the DOI link for the book, which should lead you directly to the chapter PDFs: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11771.001.0001

You can also do as Nick showed in his reply: go directly to the MIT Press page for the book<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/repairing-infrastructures>, click on the Open Access tab, and then on the link for "MIT Press Direct."

Chris
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Christopher Henke
Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies
Colgate University
chenke at colgate.edu<mailto:chenke at colgate.edu>



On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 10:03 AM Nick Blankenberg <bluefuntak at gmail.com<mailto:bluefuntak at gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks for sending this out!

I can't get either open access link to work either, but have successfully navigated to it manually from the main page for the book.
Near the overview, click on Open Access, then you can click on View on MIT Press Direct and it takes you to a list of all chapters as PDFs
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 8:08 AM Gloria Baigorrotegui <gloriabaigo at gmail.com<mailto:gloriabaigo at gmail.com>> wrote:
Congrats to the authors. The book looks great!!
Please, could you help me to access here: https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4930/Repairing-InfrastructuresThe-Maintenance-of  ?
Best, G

El lun., 19 oct. 2020 a las 9:27, Chris Henke (<chenke at colgate.edu<mailto:chenke at colgate.edu>>) escribió:
Dear Maintainers Community,

Ben Sims and I are happy to share our new book, Repairing Infrastructures: The Maintenance of Materiality and Power<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/repairing-infrastructures>. The book provides an overview of infrastructure studies and maintenance and repair studies, illustrated with case studies from our own research and the work of other researchers. Our approach in the book owes a lot to this community, and we hope you will find our work helpful for your teaching, research, and practice. You can buy the book as a paperback and/or download the chapters directly<https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4930/Repairing-InfrastructuresThe-Maintenance-of> (free of charge) from MIT's website. We're grateful to the press for offering an open access version of the book.

All best wishes,

Chris
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Christopher Henke
Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies
Colgate University
chenke at colgate.edu<mailto:chenke at colgate.edu>

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