Routledge International Handbook of Failure
Adriana Mica, Mikołaj Pawlak, Anna Horolets, and Paweł Kubicki, eds. // Routledge [in preparation]
updated 26 February 2022
| Author/s | Title | |
| 1. | Adriana Mica, Mikołaj Pawlak, Anna Horolets, and Paweł Kubicki | Are We Headed towards Critical Failure Studies? |
| PART 1: Critical failure studies in the making | ||
| 2. | Milene Mendes de Oliveira | Failure in Intercultural Communication |
| 3. | Heli Helanummi-Cole, and Rohini Jalan | Sociocultural Approaches to the Study of Failure in Context |
| 4. | Henrik Gustafsson, Paul Davis, and Louise Davis | Fear of Failure in Athletes: Fanning the Fire of Sport Desire or Burning Out? |
| 5. | Julia Gruhlich | Career Failure: A Sociological Perspective |
| 6. | Amélie Petit | Sociology of Failures in Clinical Trials |
| 7. | Thorsten Peetz, Frank Meier & Désirée Waibel | Failure Judgments. The Contribution of the Sociology of Valuation to Failure Studies |
| PART 2: Failure regimes and power, Anna Horolets | ||
| 8. | Susie Scott | Failed Identities: On the Processes and Meanings of Unformed Alternate Selves |
| 9. | Oliver Kessler | The Study of Failures and the Problem of Contingency |
| 10. | Wolfgang Seibel | Successful Failure |
| 11. | Jess Perriam | The Theatre of Failure: Social Media’s Role in Demonstrating Mundane Disruption |
| 12. | Liisa Kurunmäki, Peter Miller and Andrea Mennicken | Economising Failure and Assembling a Failure Regime |
| 13. | Kai Oppermann and Alexander Spencer | The Role of Narratives in the Discursive Construction of Failure in Foreign Policy |
| 14. | Andreas Kruck | Valuing Plurality: Objectivist and Interpretivist Approaches to the Study of Mistakes and Failures in International Relations |
| PART 3: Planning, learning, and blaming for failure | ||
| 15. | Jérôme Denis and David Pontille | Before Breakdown, After Repair: The Art of Maintenance |
| 16. | Bob Jessop | Governance Failure, Metagovernance Failure, and the Pedagogy of Failure |
| 17. | Michael Howlett | Beyond Policy Accidents: Learning the Lessons of Policy Failures |
| 18. | Christian Frankel | Market failures |
| 19. | Jan Hayes and Sarah Maslen | Preventing Major Disasters: Success and Failure as Two Sides of the Same Coin |
| 20. | Sandra Resodihardjo | Blame Games: Stories of Crises, Causes, and Culprits |
| PART 4: Failure trouble in neoliberalism and resistance | ||
| 21. | Jocelyn Pixley | Mysterious Failures in Banking and Finance Economics |
| 22. | Kelly Robinson and Timothy Carroll | The Material Ecologies of Policy Failure: Ruptures of Bodies and of State |
| 23. | Max Haiven | Financialization and Failure: Lessons from the Anxious University |
| 24. | Nicholas Bernards | Market Failures and Failed Marketization: Neoliberalism, Development and Poverty |
| 25. | Raza Saeed | Failing the States: The Fragility of the State-Failure Paradigm |
| 26. | Franz Tobias | Neoliberalism, policy failures, and crises: going beyond Hirschman’s fracasomania |
| PART 5: Post-failure or reimagined failure? | ||
| 27. | Matthias Gross | Experiments as Successful Failures |
| 28. | Stuart Firestein | How Science Fails Successfully |
| 29. | Jeff Malpas and Keith Jacobs | Politics, Sociology, and the ”Inevitability” of Failure |
| 30. | Susanne Hamscha | Cripistemologies of the Body: Knowing through Disability |
| 31. | Thomas Mercier | Beyond Failure? Queer Theory’s Fallibilities |
| 32. | Ann Cooper Albright | Gravity Matters: a Meditation on Falling and Failing |
| 33. | Janet O’Shea | Crashing to Earth: Redefining Failure in a Time of Precarity |
| 34. | Gertrude Fraser | Afterwards |