Maintenance and Repair Work

Vinck, Dominique

doi:10.1080/19378629.2019.1655566

Cited by 13 publications

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“…A growing body of research evidence reveals how socio-technical interactions between people enacting a range of collaborative performances lie at the core of engineering practice. For example, informal technical coordination, gaining willing and conscientious collaboration from others with an agreed time schedule and without relying on organisational or other authority, appears to constitute a significant proportion of the work of professional engineers (Anderson et al, 2010;Blandin, 2012;Jesiek et al, 2019;Trevelyan, 2007;Vinck, 2003Vinck, , 2019.…”

Section: Socio-technical Aspects Of Engineering Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Engineering practices observed in South Asia

2023

SJEE

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The development of engineering skills in Africa could be improved by learning from experiences in South Asia where research has exposed significant weaknesses in the engineering education ecosystem. Research has shown how socio-technical interactions that involve collaborations with other people dominate the work of professional engineers. In contrast to wealthy, developed countries, societies in the Global South are often characterised by complex patterns of social behaviour where perceived reputation, socioeconomic status, caste, tribal identity and language strongly mediate power structures and hence collaborative performances such as engineering. In addition, several environmental factors such as the local economy and business practices, labour market, education, weak social security, low trust in strangers, climate and geography all influence the ways that engineers practice in their firms. These factors, coupled with pragmatic responses within firms, and knowledge gaps such as incomplete perceptions on labour costs, make it much harder for engineers in South Asia to generate similar levels of performance as in wealthier countries. Engineers' salaries and the cost of engineered goods and services of equivalent performance and quality may serve as objective indicators of engineering performances. This paper concludes with suggestions for engineering educators in the Global South to help a greater proportion of engineering graduates to become competent novice engineers in local enterprises with these socio-cultural and economic complexities.

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Section: Socio-technical Aspects Of Engineering Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Engineering practices observed in South Asia

2023

SJEE

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“…While notions of care are beginning to emerge in energy social science research, this has yet to engage comprehensively with a theory of care. Meanwhile, the theory of care ethics has been explored more comprehensively in related fields, including ethical consumption [65][66][67][68], Responsible Research and Innovation [52][53][54][55][56], climate change, sustainability and intergenerational ethics [57][58][59], and engineering and maintenance and repair studies [69][70][71][72][73]. We focus in this paper on its nascent and future application in energy research.…”

Section: Care In Energy Researchmentioning

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Towards energy care ethics: Exploring ethical implications of relationality within energy systems in transition

Damgaard

McCauley

Reid

2022

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Ainsi, là où la coopérative déploie comme étendard la question de l'autonomie dans la fabrication des machines, les stagiaires recherchent plus souvent des ressources pour être autonomes en termes de maintenance. Cette dernière, amplement abordée dans la littérature sur les activités technologiques et l'innovation [Graham et Thrift, 2007 ;Henke, 2000 ;Vinck, 2019], amène à considérer une pluralité de significations, interprétations et mises en actes de l'autonomie technologique que notre enquête a permis d'élucider. La prise en compte de cette pluralité est d'autant plus importante qu'aujourd'hui des acteurs comme les entreprises ou l'État, pourtant cibles des critiques des promoteurs de l'autonomie technologique, encouragent et cherchent à s'appuyer sur ces mouvements en faveur d'une innovation libre ouverte, portée par les usagers.…”

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Politiser l’équipement, équiper l’autonomie Enquête sur l’autoconstruction de matériel agricole en France

Goulet¹,

Meyer²,

Cardinael³

2022

Ethnologie Française

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Cet article explore les ressorts rhétoriques et pratiques de l’autonomie technologique. Il s’appuie sur une recherche conduite autour des activités d’un organisme de formation prônant l’autoconstruction de machines agricoles, l’ Atelier Paysan . Il montre tout d’abord une pluralité de modes d’existence de l’autonomie : une autonomie dotée d’une épaisseur politique, prônée par les formateurs, et une autonomie plus pragmatique pour les agriculteurs. Seront ensuite mises en évidence l’importance des outils et des fournitures mobilisés lors des formations, constituant l’infrastructure de toute activité de construction et de maintenance. L’article argumente ainsi en faveur d’une prise en compte accrue de la dimension matérielle des processus d’autonomisation.

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Maintenance and Repair Work

Cited by 13 publications

References 33 publications

Engineering practices observed in South Asia

Engineering practices observed in South Asia

Towards energy care ethics: Exploring ethical implications of relationality within energy systems in transition

Politiser l’équipement, équiper l’autonomie Enquête sur l’autoconstruction de matériel agricole en France

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