The Cruel and Reparative Possibilities of Failure

Jessica M. W. Kratzer, Desirée D. Rowe

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978788640
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Communication Studies
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I: Failure as Consumption
• Chapter 1: Forced to Disband: Counterpublic Consummatory Issues and Queer Failure
• Chapter 2: Implicating Failure: Corporeal Commodification in the Organization of Donor Milk
• Part II: Failure as Media
• Chapter 3: Embracing Failure in Netflix’s BONDiNG: Misinformation about Kink in Season 1 Addressed through Character Developme t in Season 2
• Chapter 4: The Paradoxical Corrective Failures of That ’90s Show: Reboots and Contemporary Nostalgia in the Age of Streaming Television
• Part III: Failure as Pedagogy
• Chapter 5: Queer Failures in the Gender Communication and Sexual Communication Classroom
• Chapter 6: Failing toward Abolition: Embracing Abolitionist Principles in the College Classroom
• Part IV: Failure as Narrative
• Chapter 7: Navigating Failed Systems: An Autoethnographic Account of Documenting Abuse and the Call for Trauma-Informed Approaches
• Chapter 8: Triggered: Writing My Way into Consent Culture
• Part V: Failure as Transformation
• Chapter 9: Performing Abject: Reclaiming the Body and Resignifying the Abject in Performance
• Chapter 10: The Transformative Power of Failure in Everyday Organizing: Failure’s Irony
• Index
• Contributor Biographies