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Explore the unexpected ways objects behave when they do not perform as intended. The Material Culture of Failure: When Things Do Wrong by Routledge examines how failure, incoherence, and incompetence operate within social life. Rather than viewing these concepts as purely negative, this book investigates how they can lead to creative and positive results. By combining theoretical frameworks with ethnographic approaches, the text explores how failure manifests across various contexts. The editors present ten distinct ethnographic encounters to illustrate these complex dynamics. This work is an essential resource for those studying how material objects and social systems interact when things go wrong.

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The Material Culture of Failure explores how unexpected object behavior can lead to creative results.

This Routledge publication combines theoretical and ethnographic approaches to study failure.

The book includes ten ethnographic encounters to examine how failure operates in different contexts.

Readers can investigate the social implications of incoherence and incompetence through this text.

This academic work examines the definition and impact of failure within material culture.

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Amazon UK
Release Date
18 May 2017
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17 August 2016

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