Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Introduction. Insiders’ Manual to Breakdown 1
5. Snapshot 1. Head, Heart, Hand: On Contradiction, Contingency and Repair 17
6. Chapter 1. Underwater, Still Life: Multi-species Engagements with the Art Abject of a Wasted American Warship 24
7. Snapshot 2. Beyond the Sparkle Zones 41
8. Chapter 2. ‘Till Death Do Us Part’: The Making of Home through Holding on to Objects 45
9. Snapshot 3. ‘The Lady Is Not Here’: Repairing Tita Meme as a Telecare User 67
10. Chapter 3. In the House of Un-things: Decay and Deferral in a Vacated Bulgarian Home 73
11. Snapshot 4. Undisciplined Surfaces 87
12. Chapter 4. A Ride on the Elevator: Infrastructures of Brokenness and Repair in Georgia 92
13. Snapshot 5. Don’t Fix the Puddle: A Puddle Archive as Ethnographic Account of Sidewalk Assemblages 115
14. Chapter 5. What Is in a Hole? Voids out of Place and Politics below the State in Georgia 121
15. Snapshot 6. Maintaining Whose Road? 145
16. Chapter 6. Dirtscapes: Contest over Value, Garbage and Belonging in Istanbul 149
17. Snapshot 7. Repairing Russia 169
18. Chapter 7. Village Vintage in Southern Norway: Revitalisation and Vernacular Entrepreneurship in Culture Heritage Tourism 178
19. Snapshot 8. A Story of Time Keepers 197
20. Chapter 8. Keeping Them ‘Swiss’: The Transfer and Appropriation of Techniques for Luxury-Watch Repair in Hong Kong 201
21. Snapshot 9. Lost Battles of De-bobbling 225
22. Chapter 9. Small Mutinies in the Comfortable Slot: The New Environmentalism as Repair 228
23. Snapshot 10. Why Stories about Broken-Down Snowmobiles Can Teach You a Lot about Life in the Arctic Tundra 245
24. Chapter 10. The Imperative of Repair: Fixing Bikes – for Free 249
25. Snapshot 11. Repair and Responsibility: The Art of Doris Salcedo 267
26. Chapter 11. Social Repair and (Re)Creation: Broken Relationships and a Path Forward for Austrian Holocaust Survivors 271
27. Snapshot 12. Living Switches 293
28. Chapter 12. Brokenness and Normality in Design Culture 297
29. Snapshot 13. And Then You See Yourself Disappear 313
30. Epilogue. This Mess We’re in, or Part of 316
31. Index 324