Everyday life and the army headquarters culture: Two regimes of maintenance/knowledge practices in an asylum
2020
Abstract
administering the whole institution. These two ways of using the Home F build on different strategies and experiences acquired through different means.
We ask how the maintenance/knowledge practices of the maintenance men equipped with the universal keys, CCTVs and other high-tech devices relate to the experiences of the inhabitants eking out a living in a world of unalterable rules and barriers. Through exploring how practices typical of the two maintenance styles influence, exploit and enable (or not) each other, we hope to shed some fresh empirical light on the tensions between everyday life and conditions of possibility and between democratic and totalitarian institutions.