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Routledge - The Material Culture of Failure Book

Name: Routledge - The Material Culture of Failure Book
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Explore the unexpected side of malfunction with The Material Culture of Failure: When Things Do Wrong by Routledge. This book challenges the idea that failure is always a negative outcome. Instead, it investigates how objects behaving unexpectedly can lead to creative and positive results in social life. By combining theoretical frameworks with ethnographic approaches, this work examines how failure operates across different contexts. The editors present ten unique ethnographic encounters that reveal how concepts like incompetence or incoherence manifest in the real world. This is an essential read for those interested in how the breakdown of expected patterns can shape human experience and social structures.

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Examines how unexpected object behavior and failure can lead to creative and positive outcomes.

Combines theoretical perspectives with ethnographic approaches to study failure in various contexts.

Includes ten specific ethnographic encounters to illustrate how failure manifests in real-world settings.

Challenges traditional views of incompetence and incoherence as being purely negative in social life.

Provides a deep look into the material culture of how things go wrong and how people respond.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 1474289088
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 May 2017
Listed Since: 17 August 2016

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