Special Issue on Failure guest edited by Arjun Appadurai
http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/35391
Failure is a loose concept, covering everything from small mistakes in ordinary life to major catastrophes in society, nature, and history. Its ubiquity and universality lend to it the sense that failure is akin to a self-evident or natural fact. Yet the most important thing about failure is that it is not a fact but a judgment. And given that it is a human judgment, we are obliged to ask how the judgment is made, who is authorized to make it, who is forced to accept it, and what the relationship is between the imperfections of human life and the decision to declare some of them as constituting failures. It further follows that failure is not seen in the same way at all times and in all places. Thus failure is a volatile and variable concept, and the essays in this volume testify to the many guises in which it appears. Some of this variability is a matter of history and culture, while other parts are owed to differences between fields, disciplines, and forms of knowledge. This disciplinary variability is one reason the essays gathered here cover such varied terrain. — Arjun Appadurai
Social Research International Quarterly
Vol. 83 (3) Fall 2016
Table of Contents
Failure
Guest Editor: Arjun Appadurai
Endangered Scholars Worldwide
pp. v-xx
Introduction
pp. xxi-xxvii
Arjun Appadurai
The Imagery of Failure
pp. 537-547
Alexandra Zsigmond
Failures of Mind and Meaning
pp. 549-571
Akeel Bilgrami
A Moralistic Failure: Mandeville and the Obscene Origin of Economic Thought
pp. 573-595
Noam Yuran
Failing to Sense the Future: From Design to the Proactionary Test Drive
pp. 597-624
Cameron Tonkinwise
Histories of Things That Don’t Happen and Shouldn’t Always Work
pp. 625-644
Keller Easterling
Failure via Schumpeter: Market Globality, Empire, and the End(s) of Capitalism
pp. 645-671
Ritu Birla
Economic Cleansing: Failure Dressed in Fine Clothes
pp. 673-687
Saskia Sassen
Soviet Debris: Failure and the Poetics of Unfinished Construction in Northern Siberia
pp. 689-721
Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov
The Pluriverse of Failure in Indian Science
pp. 723-747
Shiv Visvanathan
Empowerment as Surrender: How Women Lost the Battle for Emancipation as They Won Equality and Inclusion
pp. 749-776
Albena Azmanova
On Urban Failure
pp. 777-798
Ash Amin
Notes on Contributors
pp. 799-800
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