Repair Acts: Repair, Care and Maintenance Cultures
- Submitting institution
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University of the West of England, Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 6873688
- Type
- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Repair Acts is the home repository for an ongoing body of work that deals with topics relating to repair, care and maintenance cultures, growing out of an AHRC-funded Network.
- Open access status
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- Month
- November
- Year
- 2017
- URL
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Repair Acts is the home repository for an ongoing body of work that deals with topics relating to repair, care and maintenance cultures, growing out of an AHRC-funded Network.
Research Process
Theoretically and methodologically, Repair Acts draws on feminist, ecological and material scholarship within the fields of science, technology and cultural studies; with a focus on applied and artistic practice and policy and legislative measures that address planned obsolescence and restorative futures. Taking a practice-based approach the process pivots around four axes: Critical - relating to artistic and theoretical practices of repair; Essential - where the act of repair is a necessary, daily function of living, policy and legalisation; Craft - relating to the fields of heritage and tradition, including practices of care, restoration and preservation; and Economic - existing and new forms of economy, including changes to manufacturing and industry standards relating to repair, reuse and maintenance cultures.
Research Insights
Supported initially though an AHRC Network Grant (2018-2019) the key insights that have emerged from the work to date relate to how cultural differences on repair and care manifest. The project explores global labour flow, relating to repair, reuse and e-Waste economies and the role of the informal sector. Another key aim is changing values, including the visibility and accessibility of local repair site and economies within urban neighbourhoods. The project also focuses on visual cultures relating to repair economies and emerging practices of repair, care and maintenance in contemporary art.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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