Fixing Motorcycles in Post-Repair Societies

Fixing Motorcycles in Post-Repair SocietiesMost social science studies on automobility have focused on the production, usage, identity construction and aesthetic improvements of personal means of transportation. What happens if we shift the focus to the labour, knowledge and social relations that go into the unavoidable moments of maintenance and repair? Taking motorcycling in Romania as an ethnographic entry point, this book documents how bikers handle the inevitable moments of malfunction

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It examines issues including why transsexuals' sex transitions were encouraged under apartheid and illegal during the political transition to democracy and how butch lesbians and drag queens in urban townships reshape race and gender

Who gains from ethnic inequality

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and urban renewal for the twenty-first century

and how the US government and the regimes of the Eastern Bloc responded to this transatlantic alliance

leaving many to question the motives and character of their leaders for the first time

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How do virtual telematic environments affect our relationship with the object and our understanding of identity and presence