This article seeks to contribute to the conceptualization of everyday repair with a focus on banknotes, a ubiquitous and mundane technology in constant need of maintenance and repair. Through a design anthropology approach, we examine how practices of repairing banknotes are entangled with discourses of innovation that manifest in everyday life. This is complemented with a short ethnographic account of how damage, care and repair of banknotes in Chile are articulated through mundane everyday life activities.
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Pink, S., Salazar, J. F., & Duque, M. (2019). Everyday mundane repair: banknotes and the material entanglements of improvisation and innovation. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 2(1), 458–477. https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2019.1636619
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