Routledge international handbook of failure / / edited by Adriana Mica, Mikołaj Pawlak, Anna Horolets and Paweł Kubicki.

• Superior document: Routledge international handbooks
• TeilnehmendeR: Mica, Adriana,; Pawlak, Mikołaj,; Horolets, Anna,; Kubicki, Paweł,
• Place / Publishing House: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;, New York, NY : : Routledge,, 2023.; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge international handbooks.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 508 pages) :; illustrations.

"This Handbook examines the study of failure in social sciences, its manifestations in the contemporary world, and the modalities of dealing with it - both in theory and in practice. It draws together a comprehensive approach to failing, and invisible forms of cancelling out and denial of future perspectives. Underlining critical mechanisms for challenging and reimagining norms of success in contemporary society, it allows readers to understand how contemporary regimes of failure are being formed and institutionalized in relation to policy and economic models, such as neo-liberalism. While capturing the diversity of approaches in framing failure, it assesses the conflations and shifts which have occurred in the study of failure over time. Intended for scholars who research processes of inequality and invisibility, this Handbook aims to formulate a critical manifesto and activism agenda for contemporary society. Presenting an integrated view about failure the Handbook will be an essential reading for students in sociology, social theory, anthropology, international relations and development research, organization theory, public policy, management studies, queer theory, disability studies, sports and performance research"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Funding Acknowledgment Statement -- Introduction -- 1 FAIL! Are We Headed Towards Critical Failure Studies? -- Failure -- Resilience / Inequality and Invisibility -- Future -- Neoliberalism -- Critical Failure Studies -- The Structure of the Handbook -- Part 1 Critical Failure Studies in the Making -- Part 2 Failure Regimes and Power -- Part 3 Restoring, Learning, and Attributing Blame for Failure -- Part 4 Failure Trouble and Resistance in Neoliberalism -- Part 5 Post-Failure Or Reimagined Failure? -- References -- Part 1 Critical Failure Studies in the Making -- 2 Failure in Intercultural Communication -- Introduction -- Linguistic Relativity and Intercultural Communication Problems -- Semantic (Conceptual) and Pragmatic Failure in Intercultural Communication -- Failure in Intercultural Communication From a Critical-Theoretical Postmodernist Perspective -- Looking Ahead: "Overcoming" Failure in Intercultural Communication -- Conclusions and the Future of Failure in Intercultural Communication -- Notes -- References -- 3 Entrepreneurial Failure Contextualized: Sociocultural Approaches -- Introduction -- Entrepreneurial Failure: Historical Perspectives -- Entrepreneurial Context: Key Issues -- Entrepreneurial Failure in Context: New Approaches -- Embeddedness: The Role of Collective Organization in Failure -- Social Construction: The Role of Collective Ideas in Failure -- Materiality: The Role of Collective Artifacts in Failure -- Illustrations and Discussion -- Future Lines of Development -- Conclusions and Future Research -- References -- 4 Fear of Failure in Athletes: Fanning the Fire of Sport Desire Or Burning Out? -- Fear of Failure in Athletes -- Burnout in Athletes.

The Role of Fear of Failure in Athlete Burnout -- Coaches and Significant Others and Their Role in Fear of Failure and Athlete Burnout -- Assisting Athletes in Managing Their Fear of Failure -- Conclusions and Future Directions of Fear of Failure and Burnout in Sport -- References -- 5 Career Failure: A Sociological Perspective -- Introduction -- The Modern Invention of Professional Careers and Individualization of Failure -- Failure and the Emergence of New Career Paths in the Changing Fields of Organizations -- Contemporary Social Inequalities and Career Failures -- Conclusion and Research Outlook -- References -- 6 Sociology of Failures in Clinical Trials -- Experimental Failure in Clinical Trials: A Recurring Phenomenon Little Addressed By the Social Sciences -- Sociologists Study Clinical Trials as a Tool for Doctors to Address the Failure of Conventional Treatments, Not as an … -- An Organisational Sociology Perspective On the Production of Experimental Failures and Invalid Results -- Selective Publication and Ignoring Failure: A Socio-Analysis of Scientific Publishing Practices -- Future Lines of Development: The Social Experience of Failure, a Sociological Unthinkable? The Case of Experimental … -- Conclusion: To Promote Dialogue Between Sociological Specialties -- Notes -- References -- 7 From Varieties of Failure to Failure Judgments: The Sociology of Valuation and Failure Studies -- Valuating Failures -- The Sociology of Valuation -- Varieties of Failing Valuations -- Errors and Biases -- Unintended Consequences -- Ignoring and Decoupling -- Reconstructing Failure Judgments: New Avenues for Research -- Conclusions and New Areas of Inquiry -- Notes -- References -- Part 2 Failure Regimes and Power -- 8 Failed Identities: On the Processes and Meanings of Unformed Alternate Selves -- The Sociology of Nothing.

Failed Identity Development: Two Routes to Unbecoming -- The Haunting Experience of Abandoned Selves -- Methodology -- Commissive Dis-Identification: Becoming a Non- -- Omissive Non-Identification: Non-Becoming -- Conclusions and Lines of Development -- References -- 9 The Study of Failures and the Problem of Contingency -- Introduction -- On the Contingency of Failure -- Failure as Empirical Irregularity -- Failure as Miscommunication -- Failure as Mode of Organization -- Failure and the Epistemology of the Market? -- The Sayable: Rational Expectations and Asymmetrical Information -- The Visible: Central Banks and Monetary Policy in Times of Climate Change -- Conclusions and Future Lines of Exploration -- Notes -- References -- 10 Successful Failure -- Introduction -- Variants -- Situational Successful Failure -- Institutionalized Successful Failure -- Theoretical and Methodological Implications -- The Evolutionary Logic -- The Logic of Purposeful Action -- Conclusion: Successful Failure as a Precarious Phenomenon -- References -- 11 The Theatre of Failure: Social Media's Role in Demonstrating Mundane Disruption -- The Theatre of Proof and Public Experimentation -- Theatre of Use - Introducing the Digital to Demonstrations -- Bias Towards Success -- Using the Theatre Metaphor to Investigate Failure -- Examples of Theatre of Failure -- Social Media as a Setting for Theatres of Failure -- Researching the Theatre of Failure -- Observing Transport for London's Theatre of Failure -- Live Service Updates -- Direct Message Subscriptions -- Accountability and the Theatre of Failure -- Inequalities and the Theatre of Failure -- Conclusions: The Demonstration of Mundane Failures and Beyond -- Notes -- References -- 12 Economising Failure and Assembling a Failure Regime -- Introduction -- Failure Regimes, Failing, and the Economising of Failure.

Economising the Economy -- Economising the Public Sphere: Assembling a Failure Regime for Hospitals in England -- A New Type of Entity, and a New Definition of Failure -- A New Calculative Infrastructure for a New Regulator -- Conclusion and Further Lines of Inquiry -- Notes -- References -- 13 Foreign Policy Failure: A Narrative Analysis -- Approaches to Failure in Foreign Policy -- Narratives and Narrative Analysis -- A Method to Study Narratives in International Relations -- The Narrative Construction of Failure in Foreign Policy -- Setting -- Characterization -- Emplotment -- Explaining the Success of Failure Narratives -- Conclusion and Avenues for Future Research: Narrative Learning From "Failure" -- Note -- References -- 14 Valuing Plurality: Objectivist and Interpretivist Approaches to the Study of Mistakes and Failures in International Relations -- Mistakes and Failures as a Subject of International Relations -- Concepts of Mistakes and Failures -- Causes of Mistakes and Failures -- Consequences of Mistakes and Failures: Attribution of Responsibility and Learning -- Perspectives for the Future Study of Mistakes and Failures: Valuing Plurality -- Note -- References -- Part 3 Restoring, Learning, and Attributing Blame for Failure -- 15 Before Breakdown, After Repair: The Art of Maintenance -- STS and the Trope of Breakdown -- "Rethinking Repair" -- Turning to Maintenance -- The Art of Maintenance -- Everyone's Task -- All the Time! -- Conclusion: Maintenance and the Reconsideration of Failure -- References -- 16 Cloud Backup and Restore: The Infrastructure of Digital Failure -- Failure Studies Beyond the Event -- The Infrastructure of Anticipation -- Conclusion: Towards Long-Term Cloud Futures -- Notes -- References -- 17 Governance Failure, Metagovernance Failure, and the Pedagogy of Failure -- The Tendential Inevitability of Failure.

Governance -- Governance as the Art of Complexity -- Modalities and Objects of Governance -- Responses to Failure -- More On Metagovernance -- Collibration -- Government's Role in Collibration -- The Pedagogy of Failure -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 18 Beyond Policy Accidents: Learning the Lessons of Policy Failures -- Clarifying the Concepts of Policy Success and Failure -- Further Clarifying the Multidimensional Nature of Policy Success and Failure -- Revising the Typology of Failures Given the Multidimensional Nature of Policy Outcomes -- Understanding the Origins of Policy Failures: The McConnell "3P" Approach -- Conclusion: Overcoming Process and Political Policy Failures Through Deep Policy Learning -- References -- 19 Market Failures -- Introduction -- Marketplaces: Markets as Failures -- The Market: Failure as a Lack of Efficient Allocation -- Markets for Collective Concerns: Failures of Design That Provoke Redesign -- Concluding Discussion and Questions for Future Research -- Note -- References -- 20 Preventing Major Disasters: Success and Failure as Two Sides of the Same Coin -- Introduction -- Attitudes to Failure From the Management Literature -- Technical Attitudes to Failure -- Failure and the Safety Literature -- Methods -- Study 1: Engineers and Failure -- Study 2: Senior Managers and Failure -- Data Analysis -- Engineers and Failure -- Role of Failure in Engineering Work -- Benefits of Having Experienced Failures -- Interest in Past Disasters Experienced By Others -- Benefits of Sharing Information About Failures -- Senior Managers and Failure -- Most Concerned About External Perceptions -- Failures Are Caused By Mistakes -- Failures Are Not Failures -- Hard Not to Be Complacent -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Differing Attitudes to Failure -- Impact On Disaster Prevention -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References.

21 Blame Games: Stories of Crises, Causes, and Culprits.