Beyond repair

Staying with breakdown at the interstices

Bibliographic Data

ID4863897
AuthorsTatiana A Thieme (0000-0002-0392-8141, University College London, UK, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume39
Issue6
Pages1092-1110
Publication date2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/02637758211013034
OpenAlexW3174829323
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited23

This article engages with the notion of 'break-down' as a way of going beyond claims to recover the discarded or practice repair. It experiments with ethnographic cross-pollination, setting vignettes from seemingly disparate field-sites alongside one another, to meditate on singular unfinished moments that together reflect wider dynamics of invisibility, negation, stigma and suspension at the urban interstices. From the peripheral neighbourhoods of Zaria, Nairobi, Paris, Berlin and London, these vignettes evoke shifting relationships to labour in precarious urban environments, where fleeting but situated codes, logics and deals have emerged out of seemingly broken urban worlds. Engaging with Stephen Jackson's notion of 'broken world thinking' and Donna Haraway's invitation to 'stay with the trouble', this article argues for staying with the breakdown

Aesthetics · Art · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Invisibility · Linguistics · Negation · Situated · Sociology · Stigma (botany · Anthropology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Philosophy · Psychology · Urban Planning and Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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