Overview

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.

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Author:   Jessica M. W. Kratzer ,  Desirée D. Rowe, Towson University ,  Elyshia Aseltine ,  Nick Bliven
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
ISBN:  

9781666963496

ISBN 10:   1666963496
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   15 December 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Desirée 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

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Jessica M. W. Kratzer is associate professor of communication studies at Northern Kentucky University. Desirée D. Rowe is associate professor of communication studies at Towson University.

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