Repair Work Ethnographies
Revisiting Breakdown, Relocating Materiality
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Introduction: When Things Break Down
The introduction co-authored by Philippe Sormani, Alain Bovet and Ignaz Strebel spells out the empirical and theoretical interest of studying repair work in situ against the background of recent developments i...
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Configuring New Research Fields: How Policy, Place, and Organization Are Made to Matter
Contemporary science is typically conceived as an international endeavor. Especially the natural and technical sciences are seen as internationally constituted with their adoption of English as a lingua franca...
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Practicing Innovation: Mobile Nano-training, Emerging Tensions, and Prospective Arrangements
This chapter is based upon on a small set of narrative interviews with mobile graduate students in the nanosciences. It examines how they conducted and reported upon their respective projects “abroad” (at sele...
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Fun in Go: The Timely Delivery of a Monkey Jump and its Lingering Relevance to Science Studies
This paper offers an ethnomethodological exploration of fun in Go (the ancient board game), the timely delivery of a ‘Monkey Jump’ (a particular move in Go), and its lingering relevance to science studies (whe...
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Open AccessConstant-Quality House Price Indexes for Switzerland
The measurement of house price movements is a vital topic from both academic and practical perspectives and hence has been the focus of much research. There is almost unanimous consensus in the literature that...
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Culture in Interaction: Academic Identities in Laboratory Work
The present contribution is based on an ongoing ethnography of laboratory work in a physics and a genetics laboratory, respectively. The proposed ethnographic account addresses “academic identities” as a socio...
