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Fragilities
- Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
Engelsk Paperback
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Fragilities
- Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
Engelsk Paperback

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An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.


At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, fragility offers an opportunity for a different kind of world-making. In Fragilities, Fernando Domínguez Rubio, Jérôme Denis, and David Pontille argue that we need to pay attention to the moments when the bodies, things, and worlds we inhabit begin to crack and reveal their fragility; it is in these instabilities that we can gain precious access to alternative ways of being. The essays in this collection explore how the work of care, maintenance, and repair compose with, rather than struggle against, fragilities.

Fragility forces us to reckon with the precariousness and contingency of life and to use this reckoning as a starting point to build and nurture life-affirming politics and ethics. The book explores fragility in four categories—bodies, environments, labor, and politics—and proposes to consider in each situation what/who is rendered visible, what/who is made absent, what is considered normal, and what is deemed strong and stable versus what is deemed fragile. The volume includes a strong line-up of leading and emerging scholars from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, social studies of science, disabilities studies, and sociology.




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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780262550758
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
026255075X
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Udg. Dato:
29 apr 2025
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
154mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
MIT Press Ltd
Oplagsdato:
29 apr 2025
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