Mica, Adriana, Mikołaj Pawlak, and Anna Horolets, Paweł Kubicki, eds. 2023. Routledge International Handbook of Failure. Abingdon: Routledge (partly Open Access).
Critics’ reviews
- “Unlike most Handbooks in the social sciences, this one is groundbreaking and meets two difficult goals: one is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the emergent field of failure studies, and the second, which is to use the idea of failure to cast new light on many central problems of the social sciences, such as contingency, accountability, and economization. This Handbook is a milestone which will be widely read by researchers in many fields.” (Arjun Appadurai, Professor Emeritus of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, USA)
- “In a comprehensive way, the Routledge International Handbook of Failure provides new insights from different perspectives on the important topic of failure. This handbook is of critical importance because it can help scholars and practitioners overcome a pervasive anti-failure bias that restricts our thinking and actions. I highly recommend this book.” (Dean Shepherd, Ray and Milann Siegfried Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Notre Dame, USA)
- “This new book on failure is a welcome addition to this fascinating and important topic. I hope it meets with great success.” (Gary Wickham, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Murdoch University, Australia)
- “This handbook highlights what can only be described as a failure of imagination in the social sciences concerning the concept of failure itself. The Handbook’s essays reframe our understanding of what the discourse of failure reveals and obscures. Far from being a self- evident concept—neutrally applied—the application of the pejorative, “failure,” can too often prevent us from recognizing and seizing meaningful opportunities for advance or experimentation.” (Ilene Grabel, Distinguished University Professor, University of Denver, USA https://youtu.be/Jz56MwNnsDg.)
Mica, Adriana, Anna Horolets, Mikołaj Pawlak, and Paweł Kubicki. 2020. Ignorance and Change: Anticipatory Knowledge and the European Refugee Crisis. Abingdon: Routledge.
Critics’ reviews
- “Why did recent social crises not lead to meaningful change? The authors of this book tackle this question based on the investigation of the recent European refugee crisis and its perception in Poland, Hungary and Romania. The book is an innovative contribution in social science research with a sobering conclusion: Nothing will change as long as the path to the future is projected based on the very same principles that led to the crisis in the first place.” (Jens Beckert, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)
- “Ignorance and Change tackles the puzzle of why the many unexpected events, crises and failures that we have faced globally over the past years have so often reinforced rather than unsettling existing patterns of ignorance. In doing so, the authors demonstrate how focusing on what ignorance does rather than what it is that holds out the promise of transforming our understanding of how we respond to change and crisis. This is a powerful and important book in unsettling times.” Jacqueline Best, University of Ottawa .
Mica, Adriana. 2018. Sociology as Analysis of the Unintended: From the Problem of Ignorance to the Theory of the Possible. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
Mica, Adriana, Katarzyna Wyrzykowska, Rafał Wiśniewski, and Iwona Zielińska, eds. 2018. Socioloy of the Invisible Hand. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Mica, Adriana, Jan Winczorek, and Rafał Wiśniewski, eds. 2015. Sociologies of Formality and Informality. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang.
Mica, Adriana. 2012. Scandals and Party Moots. Mass Protests during the Ceauşescu Regime in Romania. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Mica, Adriana, Arkadiusz Peisert, and Jan Winczorek, eds. 2011. Sociology and the Unintended. Robert Merton Revisited. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Mica. Adriana, and Paweł Łuczeczko, eds. 2011. Ludzie i nie-ludzie. Perspektywa socjologiczno-antropologiczna. Pszczółki: Orbis Exterior.