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Title: Restaurar el orden del telecuidado: prácticas de reparación y la relación con los 'monstruos organizacionales'
Other Titles: Restoring the order of telecare: repair practices and the relationship with ‘organizational monsters’
Restaurar a ordem do telecuidado: práticas de reparacão e relação com os “monstros organizacionais”
Author: Sánchez Criado, Tomás  
Abstract: Care of older people has suffered major recent changes in post-industrial societies, such as the widespread introduction of information technologies. In order to observe what sort of ways of care-giving are involved in such new configurations, in this text I would like to approach ethnographically the repair practices undertaken by the technicians of a telecare service in Madrid (Spain). Following ‘sociology of deviation’ and ‘sociology of repair and maintenance’ insights, the interesting aspect of paying attention to such practices resides in the following: a more careful look at the way in which those services deal with different ‘organizational monsters’ (those configurations that appear to the services as awkward) might allow us to have a practical definition of the orders of care-giving that are being there promoted. In analysing the case I would like to address the work of repair technicians in terms of a constant ‘restoration’ (borrowing a recent concept used by Latour) of a particular care arrangement, which I will define in terms of their actual practices.
Keywords: care arrangements
organizational monsters
restoration
repair & maintenance
telecare
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Issue Date: 2-Aug-2011
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/es/  
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