CBC’s ‘The Signal’ hosted an hour long discussion of right to repair. I got to share the mic with Audrey Parnell who is a board member of the St. John’s Tool Library and doing a PhD in paleo-climate modelling. CBC host, Adam Walsh lined up a great set of guests including members of the DIY Society of Western Newfoundland, the proprietor of iDoctor, a local electronics repair shop, and Professor Natasha Tusikov at York University.
My research and commentary on electronics repair includes the following:
2023 Lepawsky, Josh, Cáceres, K., Gusukuma, M., & Kahhat, R. “Carbon and water conservation value of independent, place-based repair in Lima, Peru.” Journal of Industrial Ecology, 00, 1– 12. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13368.
2022 Lepawsky, Josh. In My Opinion: Apple still has much to fix on repair. E-Scrap News.
2021 Wang, Xiaowei and Lepawsky, Josh. Where is Repair? Computer repair in the European Union. The WIRE Journal.
2020 Lepawsky, Josh. Towards a World of Fixers Examining barriers and enablers of widely deployed third-party repair for computing within limits. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability. June, 314-320.
2020 Lepawsky, Josh. Planet of fixers? Mapping the middle grounds of independent and do‐it‐yourself information and communication technology maintenance and repair. Geo: Geography and Environment.
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