• The politics of collective repair: examining object-relations in a postwork society

    Author(s):
    Valeria Graziano (see profile) , Kim Trogal
    Date:
    2017
    Subject(s):
    Culture--Study and teaching, Commons, Feminist theory, Teaching
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Repair, postwork, conviviality, Cultural studies, Feminist pedagogy
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6K26C
    Abstract:
    In this paper, we look at repair as an emergent focus of recent activism in affluent societies, where a number of groups are reclaiming practices of repair as a form of political and ecological action. Ranging from those that fight for legislative change to those groups who are trying to support ecological and social change through everyday life practices, repair is beginning to surface tensions in everyday life and as such poses opportunities for its transformation. We survey a few of the practices that make up this movement in its various articulations, to take stock of their current political import. While we suggest that these practices can be seen as an emergent lifestyle movement, they should not be seen as presenting a unified statement. Rather, we aim to show that they articulate a spectrum of political positions, particularly in relation to the three specific issues of property, pedagogy and sociality. These three dimensions are all facets of current internal discrepancies of repair practices and moreover express potential bifurcations as this movement evolves. Drawing on a diverse methodology that includes discourse analysis and participant observation, we suggest some of the ways in which this growing area of activity could play a significant role in resisting the commodification of the everyday and inventing postwork alternatives.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2017.1298638
    Publisher:
    Informa UK Limited
    Pub. Date:
    2017-3-10
    Journal:
    Cultural Studies
    Volume:
    31
    Issue:
    5
    Page Range:
    634 - 658
    ISSN:
    0950-2386,1466-4348
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    6 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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