The Devotions of Restoration: Materiality, Enthusiasm, and Making Three “Indian Motocycles” Like New

DeLyser, Dydia; Greenstein, Paul

doi:10.1080/24694452.2017.1310020

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“…Restoration provides the context for this study and is defined as “a debt paid forward to the future by accurately interpreting its past” (DeLyser & Greenstein, , p. 1466), and while there is an abundance of literature devoted to the applied elements of restoration projects, little has been written about restoration as a specific form of practice, or the object of restoration as a specific type of project. As DeLyser and Greenstein observe, to engage with the practice of a restoration project enthusiasts must link and map historical knowledge, and an understanding of aesthetics with technical, mechanical knowledge and skills (p. 1464).…”

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confidence: 99%

Untangling the knot: The information practices of enthusiast car restorers

Lloyd

Olsson

2019

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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A study of enthusiast car restorers is used to illustrate how an information practice approach can provide information science researchers with a richer, more nuanced understanding of the complex interrelationship between people, technology, and information. An ethnographic approach incorporating both semistructured interviews and in the garage ethnographic observation was employed. Analysis was undertaken using an inductive, thematic approach. The findings demonstrate that participants' information environments are rich and complex. Participants' accounts emphasized the corporeal and embodied nature of the restoration process, and this may account for why they privileged the social networks they had developed, often over many decades, over online resources and communities. The findings indicate that participants are engaged in much more than applied problem solving. What is also evident is that engagement in the social world of car restoration, and the networks of social knowledge sharing it affords, is significant for the emotional support it provides for older men who often lose these networks later in life. In a sense, the participants are not only rebuilding their cars but also their own sense of self.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Untangling the knot: The information practices of enthusiast car restorers

Lloyd

Olsson

2019

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“…Early commentary on the 'somewhat surprising phenomenon' (Inkson, 1987:163) of the persistence and re-emergence of craft focused on enthusiasts. This has continued in more recent studies, which have insightfully unearthed the skilled manual work and craft practices that survive and thrive in non-work contexts, for example in the custom-car scene (Warren and Gibson, 2011), among classic motorcycle restorers (DeLyser and Greenstein, 2017), and in the homes of retired industrial workers (Carr, 2017). The 'DIY focus' of extant research has meant that craft has rarely been considered in relation to paid employment (Holmes, 2015:480).…”

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Repair work as good work: Craft and love in classic car restoration training

Bozkurt

Cohen

2018

Human Relations

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Repair work is essential if we are to develop environmentally sustainable societies, but repair activity has largely disappeared in advanced economies. Where it survives, work in repair is typically 'dirty' and undesirable. This article asks how repair work can be experienced as 'good work', drawing on the accounts of 20 trainees on a classic car restoration course. We observe that two features made repair 'good work' in their eyes: craft and love. Craft skills enabled trainees to imagine improved employment futures, but also engendered emotional satisfactions. What the trainees emphasized even more was love, in four distinct ways. First, there was 'object love' for the classic car. Second, love was evoked as repair reconnected them with 'authentic' younger selves. Third, love was claimed to be a prerequisite to do the work. Fourth, love mediated market relationships, connecting repairers and clients in a 'community of enthusiasm'. Our discussion contributes to studies of workplace emotions, which typically focus on feminized work, by showing how love also matters in experiences of masculine work. Identifying the attractions of repair, we also consider the liminal context of training and highlight the key conditions for the survival and growth of repair as paid 'good work'.

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“…One approach widely cultivated amongst geographers interested in making has been to build relationships (and trust) over time, and often drawing on relations developed outside of the context of research work. Indeed, many geographers who write about making and material work do so subsequent to personal histories and experiences as makers and manual workers (DeLyser & Greenstein, ). Such an approach is inherently messy (Crang, ; Shaw, DeLyser, & Crang, ; Thomas, under review; Valentine, ).…”

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Animating geographies of making: Embodied slow scholarship for participant‐researchers of maker cultures and material work

Carr

Gibson

2017

Geography Compass

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Accounts of making as a social and economic practice, and as a process of material transformation, are accumulating both within and beyond geography. In this article, we turn our attention to how geographers have engaged viscerally with the labour process of making, by putting their own bodies to work, as makers themselves, or alongside those of research participants. Such embodied interventions extend academic understandings of the everyday, embodied accumulation of skill and tacit knowledge, as well as offering an alternative, methodologically transparent approach to nonrepresentational modes of writing. We review how geographers interested in making have found ways in which to deeply engage the field, often building on longstanding personal interests and auto‐ethnographic methods, in the face of pragmatic concerns for safety and security in the workplace, as well as the time constraints of the neoliberal academy. We conclude that the flourishing slow scholarship on geographies of making has opened up a productive portal through which to re‐connect work and the body. Deeper insights arise from implicating our labouring selves in both the making, as well as writing about making.

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The Devotions of Restoration: Materiality, Enthusiasm, and Making Three “Indian Motocycles” Like New

Cited by 16 publications

References 46 publications

Untangling the knot: The information practices of enthusiast car restorers

Untangling the knot: The information practices of enthusiast car restorers

Repair work as good work: Craft and love in classic car restoration training

Animating geographies of making: Embodied slow scholarship for participant‐researchers of maker cultures and material work

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