Tinkering Australians Reinvent DIY Culture

At a time when the labour market is failing as a source of security and identity for many, domestic tinkering is emerging as a legitimate vocation, in ways we haven't seen since pre-industrial times. Practices of repair, crafting, invention, building and improvising that take place in Australia's sheds, backyards, paddocks, kitchens and home-workshops are becoming a vital part of our informal economy and social cohesion, complicating distinctions between work and leisure, amateur and professional, production and consumption. Building on the work of historians, sociologists, psychologists and economists, but with a journalist's impulse for the currency of her story, Katherine Wilson documents domestic tinkering as an undervalued form of material scholarship, social connection, psychological sanctuary and political activism. Equal parts field guide and love letter, Tinkering: Australians Reinvent DIY Culture mounts a surprising case for the profound value of domestic tinkering in contemporary Australia.

ISBN:	9781925495478
Publisher:	Monash University Publishing
Imprint:	Monash University Publishing
Published date:	01 Oct 2017
DEWEY:	338.40994
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	x, 293
Weight:	370g
Height:	157mm
Width:	211mm
Spine width:	26mm

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