{"product_id":"fragilities-isbn-9780262550758","title":"Fragilities","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, fragility offers an opportunity for a different kind of world-making. In \u003ci\u003eFragilities\u003c\/i\u003e, Fernando Domínguez Rubio, Jérôme Denis, and David Pontille argue that we need to pay attention to the moments when the bodies, things, and worlds we inhabit begin to crack and reveal their fragility; it is in these instabilities that we can gain precious access to alternative ways of being. The essays in this collection explore how the work of care, maintenance, and repair compose with, rather than struggle against, fragilities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFragility forces us to reckon with the precariousness and contingency of life and to use this reckoning as a starting point to build and nurture life-affirming politics and ethics. The book explores fragility in four categories—bodies, environments, labor, and politics—and proposes to consider in each situation what\/who is rendered visible, what\/who is made absent, what is considered normal, and what is deemed strong and stable versus what is deemed fragile. The volume includes a strong line-up of leading and emerging scholars from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, social studies of science, disabilities studies, and sociology.1. Introduction: Avowing Fragility\u003cbr\u003eFernando Domínguez Rubio\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Bodies\u003cbr\u003e2 A Healthy Breakfast for Your Child: Maintenance, Care, and the Persistence of Fragility\u003cbr\u003eAnnemarie Mol\u003cbr\u003e3 Care as Attention to Fragility and Confronting Resistance: Parents’ Narratives of Care Practices with Multiply Disabled Children\u003cbr\u003eMyriam Winance\u003cbr\u003e4 Conversation with Lucy Suchman\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Environments\u003cbr\u003e5 The Fragility of a Mighty Process: Capital and Cattle Mutually Assist Their Reproduction\u003cbr\u003eMarisol de la Cadena and Santiago Martínez Medina\u003cbr\u003e6 Contamination Chores\u003cbr\u003eMax Liboiron\u003cbr\u003e7 Conversation with María Puig de la Bellacasa\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Labor\u003cbr\u003e8 Care in Fragments: Ecologies of Support Beyond Repair\u003cbr\u003eTomás Sánchez Criado and Vincent Duclos\u003cbr\u003e9 Fragility, Capacity, and the Work of Repair in the Timber Plantations of South Africa\u003cbr\u003eThomas Cousins\u003cbr\u003e10 Conversation with Geof Bowker\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Politics\u003cbr\u003e11 Sovereignty and the Weakness of the King: Regimes of Care at Rochefort\u003cbr\u003eChandra Mukerji\u003cbr\u003e12 The Fragility of Ice: Cryohuman Relations in Times of Collapse\u003cbr\u003eCymene Howe\u003cbr\u003e13 Conversation with Steve Jackson\u003cbr\u003e14 Conclusion: What Fragility Does\u003cbr\u003eJérôme Denis and David Pontille\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndexJérôme Denis is Professor at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in the Center for the Sociology of Innovation, Mines Paris-PSL. With David Pontille, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Care of Things: Ethics and Politics of Maintenance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Pontille is Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), in the Center for the Sociology of Innovation, Mines Paris-PSL. With Jérôme Denis, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Care of Things: Ethics and Politics of Maintenance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFernando Domínguez Rubio is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eStill Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302818631909,"sku":"NP9780262550758","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262550758.jpg?v=1767727625","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/fragilities-isbn-9780262550758","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}