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Theorising the everyday work of cycle mechanics

Tummons, Jonathan

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Abstract

Drawing on interim findings from an ethnography of a cycle mechanics’ workshop, this article demonstrates how the work of the mechanics rests on not only specific and contextualised craft expertise but also on distributed networks of both people and things, within which highly specialist instances of expertise or competence manifest alongside more generic, even mundane, instances of subjectivised, experiential knowledge or habit. Through an analysis of ethnographic data using a composite theoretical framework, designed as a mosaic consisting of three different but equal components, the article provides descriptions and theorisations of everyday work that reconcile contextualised situated accounts of craft expertise with the wider sociotechnological and cultural networks within which such contextualised spaces are located.

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Tummons, J. (2023). Theorising the everyday work of cycle mechanics. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2023.2206712

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 22, 2023
Online Publication Date May 16, 2023
Publication Date 2023
Deposit Date May 17, 2023
Publicly Available Date May 17, 2023
Journal Research in Post-Compulsory Education
Print ISSN 1359-6748
Electronic ISSN 1747-5112
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2023.2206712
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1174140

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© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.




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