The Cruel and Reparative Possibilities of Failure
Will be published approx. on 20. August 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
198 pages
979-8-216-38065-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Cruel and Reparative Possibilities of Failure brings together a variety of scholars and research across disciplines, with an emphasis on communication and gender studies, to work toward reimagining the idea of failure. Contributors consider failure as both a space for growth and repair and as a space from which hope can emerge. The collection is divided into five parts, investigating failure as consumption; failure as media; failure as pedagogy; failure as narrative; and finally, failure as transformation. Contributors spanning the fields of communication, gender, sexuality, performance, and media studies each employ unique disciplinary approaches to failure in their explorations of topics including queer counterpublics, corporeal commodification, misinformation, abolitionist principles, abuse and consent culture, and everyday organizing, among others. Looking to the future, the book takes these perspectives and experiences a step further to explore the reparative possibilities that may be found in failure.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
3 BW Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-216-38065-8 (9798216380658)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Jessica M. W. Kratzer is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northern Kentucky University.
Desiree D. Rowe is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Towson University.
Desiree D. Rowe is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Towson University.
Content
Chapter 1: Forced to disband: Counterpublic consummatory issues and queer failures
Crystal Stone
Chapter 2: Implicating failure: Corporeal commodification in the organization of donor milk
Sarah E. Jones
Chapter 3: Embracing failure in Netflix's BONDiNG: Misinformation about kink in season 1 addressed through character development in season 2
Jessica M. W. Kratzer
Stacie Meihaus Jankowski
Dakota Pannebecker
Nick Bliven
Chapter 4: The paradoxical corrective failures of That 90s Show: Reboots and Contemporary Nostalgia in the Age of Streaming Television
Michaela D.E. Meyer
Skyler M. Tolzien-Orr
Savannah J. Lambie
Chapter 5: Queer failures in the gender communication and sexual communication classroom
Michaela Frischherz
Michael Tristano Jr.
Chapter 6: Failing toward abolition: Embracing abolitionist principles in the college classroom
Jennifer Potter
Elyshia Aseltine
Chapter 7: Navigating failed systems: An autoethnographic account of documenting abuse and the call for trauma-informed approaches
Megan Alyssa Fletcher
Chapter 8: Triggered: Writing my way into consent culture
Danielle M. Stern
Chapter 9: Performing abject: Reclaiming the body and resignifying the abject in performance
Desiree D. Rowe
Chapter 10: The transformative power of failure in everyday organizing: Failure's irony
Alana Nicastro
Rachel E. Silverman
Patricia Geist-Martin
Patty Sotirin
Laura L. Ellingson
Melanie Bailey Mills
Crystal Stone
Chapter 2: Implicating failure: Corporeal commodification in the organization of donor milk
Sarah E. Jones
Chapter 3: Embracing failure in Netflix's BONDiNG: Misinformation about kink in season 1 addressed through character development in season 2
Jessica M. W. Kratzer
Stacie Meihaus Jankowski
Dakota Pannebecker
Nick Bliven
Chapter 4: The paradoxical corrective failures of That 90s Show: Reboots and Contemporary Nostalgia in the Age of Streaming Television
Michaela D.E. Meyer
Skyler M. Tolzien-Orr
Savannah J. Lambie
Chapter 5: Queer failures in the gender communication and sexual communication classroom
Michaela Frischherz
Michael Tristano Jr.
Chapter 6: Failing toward abolition: Embracing abolitionist principles in the college classroom
Jennifer Potter
Elyshia Aseltine
Chapter 7: Navigating failed systems: An autoethnographic account of documenting abuse and the call for trauma-informed approaches
Megan Alyssa Fletcher
Chapter 8: Triggered: Writing my way into consent culture
Danielle M. Stern
Chapter 9: Performing abject: Reclaiming the body and resignifying the abject in performance
Desiree D. Rowe
Chapter 10: The transformative power of failure in everyday organizing: Failure's irony
Alana Nicastro
Rachel E. Silverman
Patricia Geist-Martin
Patty Sotirin
Laura L. Ellingson
Melanie Bailey Mills