Chapter 12 Economising Failure and Assembling a Failure Regime
Sociologists have largely neglected the topic of failure, and particularly the economising of failure, notwithstanding notable exceptions. This is puzzling, given the many adjacent literatures that have addressed the practices and processes of economising. Four features define our approach. First, i...
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| description | Sociologists have largely neglected the topic of failure, and particularly the economising of failure, notwithstanding notable exceptions. This is puzzling, given the many adjacent literatures that have addressed the practices and processes of economising. Four features define our approach. First, it is argued that failure has none of the objectivity or inevitability often attributed to it. Second, it is suggested that failure be viewed as a variable ontology object. Third, attention is directed to the calculative infrastructures that operationalise the ideas of failing and failure, and enable them to be acted upon. Fourth, emphasis is placed on the importance of distinguishing between failing and failure. The chapter proceeds in three stages. First, it considers the neglect of the topic of failure in sociology. Second, it examines briefly the economising of the economy through the economising of failure for the corporate world across more or less the whole of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Third, it examines the economising of the public sphere and particularly the domain of hospital-based healthcare in England across the first two decades of the twenty-first century. In conclusion, we identify possible further lines of enquiry. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-961232025-07-17T12:15:36Z Chapter 12 Economising Failure and Assembling a Failure Regime Kurunmäki, Liisa Mennicken, Andrea Miller, Peter economising, failure, failing, infrastructure, variable ontology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology Sociologists have largely neglected the topic of failure, and particularly the economising of failure, notwithstanding notable exceptions. This is puzzling, given the many adjacent literatures that have addressed the practices and processes of economising. Four features define our approach. First, it is argued that failure has none of the objectivity or inevitability often attributed to it. Second, it is suggested that failure be viewed as a variable ontology object. Third, attention is directed to the calculative infrastructures that operationalise the ideas of failing and failure, and enable them to be acted upon. Fourth, emphasis is placed on the importance of distinguishing between failing and failure. The chapter proceeds in three stages. First, it considers the neglect of the topic of failure in sociology. Second, it examines briefly the economising of the economy through the economising of failure for the corporate world across more or less the whole of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Third, it examines the economising of the public sphere and particularly the domain of hospital-based healthcare in England across the first two decades of the twenty-first century. In conclusion, we identify possible further lines of enquiry. 2023-01-20T04:01:26Z 2023-01-20T04:01:26Z 2023-01-19T13:24:53Z 2023 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60707 9780367404048 9781032371047 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/96123 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/60707/1/9780429355950_10.4324_9780429355950-15.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/60707/1/9780429355950_10.4324_9780429355950-15.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/60707/1/9780429355950_10.4324_9780429355950-15.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429355950-15 10.4324/9780429355950-15 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Routledge International Handbook of Failure 9780367404048 9781032371047 Routledge 18 open access |
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