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Author-Name: Tony Bennett 
Author-X-Name-First: Tony 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bennett 
Author-Name: Liz McFall 
Author-X-Name-First: Liz 
Author-X-Name-Last: McFall 
Author-Name: Mike Pryke 
Author-X-Name-First: Mike 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pryke 
Title: EDITORIAL 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 1-7 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350801913551 
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Author-Name: Nigel Thrift 
Author-X-Name-First: Nigel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Thrift 
Title: THE MATERIAL PRACTICES OF GLAMOUR 
Abstract:
  So why are people attracted to goods? I want to open up a new dimension
 to this debate by understanding goods as surfaces which are both active
 and inert. I will do this by considering the history of the material
 practices of what I will call glamour. Through the manipulation of
 surfaces, glamour casts a secular spell -- often only very briefly -- but
 the moment of traction is, I argue, a real one which needs to be taken
 into accounts of cultural economy if we are to make sense of modern
 consumption. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 9-23 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350801913577 
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Author-Name: Mitchell Dean 
Author-X-Name-First: Mitchell 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dean 
Title: GOVERNING SOCIETY 
Abstract:
  This paper addresses the notion of &#x2018;governing society&#x2019;. It
 does this first through revisiting the founding Hobbesian symbol of the
 state as Leviathan and its status in contemporary social science
 discourses proclaiming the end of the nation-state and of the social
 project it contained. It then proceeds to outline the genealogical sites
 of emergence of governing society and the social project from, in turn, an
 internal or domestic perspective afforded by the notion of
 governmentality, and then from an international perspective of a system of
 states and their location in a global spatial order. An assessment of the
 project of governing society and the fate of the social, would need to be
 framed not in terms of the life and mooted death of the Leviathan
 nation-state, but in terms of the struggle between two monsters. The
 latter struggle might symbolize, from time to time, the relations between
 such a state and civil society, the social and the economic, the domestic
 and the international, land and sea, change and order, nation-state and
 globalization. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 25-38 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350801913601 
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Author-Name: Theodore M. Porter 
Author-X-Name-First: Theodore M. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Porter 
Title: LOCATING THE DOMAIN OF CALCULATION 
Abstract:
  Economic science generally takes as its model system the results of
 uncoerced market transactions, and the application of economic rationality
 to the state is often understood as an effort to make public institutions
 behave more like private firms. This requires the explicit formulation of
 calculations that entrepreneurs are presumed to make implicitly. Yet a
 formal system of calculation can never be the same as a set of
 unarticulated practices, and economic projects such as cost-benefit
 analysis led quickly to the measurement of objects undreamed of by the
 private economy. Also, the relentless advance of economic quantification
 has created systems of oversight and regulation that tend to centralize
 rather than diffuse power. Historically, the methods of economic
 calculation did not follow from a quantified theory of individual market
 behavior, but, quite the contrary, were articulated as instruments of
 economic management and then applied back to individuals. As economics
 worked out a theory of market behavior, it simultaneously gave new meaning
 to the very idea of economic rationality. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 39-50 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350801913627 
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Author-Name: Peter Miller 
Author-X-Name-First: Peter 
Author-X-Name-Last: Miller 
Title: CALCULATING ECONOMIC LIFE 
Abstract:
  The rediscovery of the economy as a legitimate object of sociological and
 cultural enquiry is in full swing. This is long overdue, and follows a
 remarkable neglect of such issues for many decades. Organization
 theorists, sociologists and others have long studied organizations,
 institutions and networks. But a focus on the constitutive or performative
 role of calculative practices, and their role in the formation of markets
 and market relations, is more recent. This paper endorses much of the
 spirit of this recent rediscovery of the economy and economic relations,
 and suggests a framework for taking forward this overall agenda. First,
 the paper offers a brief reminder of the curiously punctuated history of
 sociological concerns with economic calculation. Second, it draws
 attention to the specificity of accounting as one particular mode of
 calculation, and reviews the range of studies that have sought to
 understand and analyse its constitutive capacities. Rather than appealing
 to economics as the sole or primary constitutive machine for the
 construction of the economy, it suggests a more differentiated and nuanced
 view of the range of expertises and modes of calculation that constitute
 the economy, markets and associated modes of power. Finally, the paper
 argues for a particular way of analysing the economy and its constituent
 practices. Most generally, this means suggesting a focus on the governing
 of economic life, the linkages and interdependencies between calculative
 practices and programmes for governing, and the assemblages formed. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 51-64 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350801913643 
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Author-Name: Bill Maurer 
Author-X-Name-First: Bill 
Author-X-Name-Last: Maurer 
Title: RESOCIALIZING FINANCE? OR DRESSING IT IN MUFTI? 
Abstract:
  Critical accounts of the financialization of the world economy decry the
 depersonalization and abstraction effected by finance in the service of
 extraction, expropriation and dispossession. Analysts and activists alike
 seek to re-socialize finance so that those whose interests it serves can
 be identified and so that new, socially embedded forms of exchange can
 emerge. They also seek to re-ground finance in a &#x2018;real&#x2019;,
 presumably material and social, fabric so that its excesses can be tamed
 and the sources of value made apparent. My essay questions these paired
 critiques and their supposed aims. It will argue that the continual
 attempt to reassert the social in economy points to a limit to the
 critical imagination, and that the critique of calculative rationality
 misses some of the other functions and practical effects of numbers
 besides commensuration and abstraction. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 65-78 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350801913668 
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Author-Name: Penny Harvey 
Author-X-Name-First: Penny 
Author-X-Name-Last: Harvey 
Author-Name: Hannah Knox 
Author-X-Name-First: Hannah 
Author-X-Name-Last: Knox 
Title: &#x2018;OTHERWISE ENGAGED&#x2019; 
Abstract:
  This article explores the cultural framings that all too frequently pass
 un-noticed in standard cost-benefit accounts of development economics. Our
 purpose is not simply to add our voice to those who argue for the
 importance of &#x2018;bringing culture back in&#x2019;, for we assume that
 in contexts of modern development economics &#x2018;the cultural&#x2019;
 cannot simply be added to the technical or the economic, as these
 perspectives are explicitly elaborated as an abstraction from the
 cultural. Rather, we are interested in how an exploration of the cultural
 dynamics of technical process leads us to a disjunctive (rather than an
 additive) mode of &#x2018;inclusion&#x2019;. Building on approaches from
 science studies and social anthropology, we draw on our ethnographic and
 historical investigations of road-building in Peru to explore divergent
 modes of connectivity through which a politics of cultural engagement is
 played out. Taking the example of a highway under construction in a
 frontier zone not generally considered of economic importance to the wider
 national economy, we discuss the historical desire for
 &#x2018;connectivity&#x2019;, highlighting the instability of the physical
 and social environments on the margins of a marginal state. In this
 context we find that the vital energies of the frontier --
 entrepreneurial, innovative, experimental and unruly -- consistently
 disrupt the vision of smooth, orderly, technical integration. We argue
 that this tension between the cultural and the technical, so clearly
 manifest at the frontiers of capitalist expansion (but characteristic of
 technological expansion more generally) is a driver rather than an
 obstacle in the development process. Attempts to produce a political
 resolution to a perceived lack of integration on the margins of society
 too often proceed through further attempts at securing smooth continuity
 (via further technical modes of intervention) rather than building on the
 diverse (disjunctive) modes of engagement that already exist. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 79-92 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350801913726 
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Author-Name: Daniel Beunza 
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Beunza 
Title: REVIEW ESSAY 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 93-100 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350801913791 
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Author-Name: Francis Dodsworth 
Author-X-Name-First: Francis 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dodsworth 
Title: BOOK REVIEW 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 101-103 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350801913817 
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Title: EDITORIAL 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 107-107 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802243461 
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Author-Name: Ismail Erturk 
Author-X-Name-First: Ismail 
Author-X-Name-Last: Erturk 
Author-Name: Julie Froud 
Author-X-Name-First: Julie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Froud 
Author-Name: Sukhdev Johal 
Author-X-Name-First: Sukhdev 
Author-X-Name-Last: Johal 
Author-Name: Adam Leaver 
Author-X-Name-First: Adam 
Author-X-Name-Last: Leaver 
Author-Name: David Shammai 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: Shammai 
Author-Name: Karel Williams 
Author-X-Name-First: Karel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams 
Title: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND IMPOSSIBILISM 
Abstract:
  This paper presents a mixed methods analysis of corporate governance and
 develops an argument that governance is impossibilist because it inflates
 expectations and sets fundamentally unattainable objectives.
 Disappointment with corporate governance is justified because
 proceduralisation plus new mechanisms (such as the insistence on more
 independent non-executive directors) have little ascertainable positive
 effect on shareholder value and firm performance. More fundamentally,
 governance misrecognises the mechanisms around value creation in giant
 public companies because it is shareholders more so than managers who
 create value in a stock market that operates as a kind of Ponzi scheme. A
 brief conclusion notes that impossibilism is associated with a massive
 increase in the circulation of &#x2018;sincere lies&#x2019; which
 insidiously discredit the public company as an institution. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 109-127 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802243503 
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Author-Name: Paul du Gay 
Author-X-Name-First: Paul 
Author-X-Name-Last: du Gay 
Title: MAX WEBER AND THE MORAL ECONOMY OF OFFICE 
Abstract:
  This article focuses upon a crucial aspect of Max Weber's work, one that
 has been largely neglected by scholars of organization, in cultural
 economy as much as in economic sociology more generally. That is
 Lebensf&#xFC;hrung, the conduct of life. The article argues that Weber's
 approach to questions of Lebensf&#xFC;hrung locates him as a late but
 prodigious practitioner in a tradition of the ethics of office,
 particularly as the latter becomes a defensive doctrine. In making this
 case, the vocabulary of office in Weber's work is explored and its
 importance for an understanding of the ethico-cultural constitution of a
 variety of instituted personae is highlighted. The article concludes by
 briefly suggesting why and how a Weberian ethics of office remains a key
 resource for scholars of organizational life, including those operating in
 the emergent field of &#x2018;cultural economy&#x2019;. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 129-144 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802243511 
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Author-Name: Franck Cochoy 
Author-X-Name-First: Franck 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cochoy 
Title: HANSEL AND GRETEL AT THE GROCERY STORE 
Abstract:
  What is the relationship between economy and culture? To address this
 question, the paper draws a parallel between the well known fairy tale
 Hansel and Gretel on the one hand and the American grocery business in the
 twentieth century on the other hand. From the thirties to the fifties,
 American grocers (like the witch) happened to progressively use their
 shops (like a cake house) as a means to attract children (like Hansel and
 Gretel). However, the parallel shows that fairy tales and market exchanges
 are connected not because the second refers to the former, or the other
 way round, but because they describe and perform similar scenes and action
 patterns, like economics (as a tale) performs the economy (as a fact), but
 also the other way round: the analysis focuses on the situated and
 'equipped&#x2019; processes that produce both facts and culture, along the
 pragmatic view of Actor Network Theory. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 145-163 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802243552 
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Author-Name: Julie Sommerlund 
Author-X-Name-First: Julie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sommerlund 
Title: MEDIATIONS IN FASHION 
Abstract:
  This paper deals with the relations between the sociality of cultural
 economies and the cultural objects traded in them. It argues that the
 study of cultural economies must work up new methodologies that can
 account for both. The paper suggests the concept of the
 &#x2018;mediator&#x2019; as a way of highlighting how cultural objects and
 sociality are co-constituted. The &#x2018;mediator&#x2019; is formulated
 as a methodological tool for by-passing the academic divide between
 cultural-aesthetic objects and their social contexts. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 165-180 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802243578 
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Author-Name: Stefan Schwarzkopf 
Author-X-Name-First: Stefan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Schwarzkopf 
Title: CREATIVITY, CAPITAL AND TACIT KNOWLEDGE 
Abstract:
  This article discusses the role of creativity, graphic design innovations
 and tacit knowledge within advertising agency competition processes during
 the first half of the twentieth century. This period witnessed the arrival
 of the &#x2018;advertising creative&#x2019;: the artist-designer, whose
 output and tacit understanding of consumer tastes became key for the
 competitive advantage of agencies. Adapting Bourdieu's concept of the
 social field within which actors create and trade various forms of
 capital, I show how and why William Crawford's advertising agency in
 London became a pioneer in promoting the social, cultural and economic
 role of this new group of agency workers. I argue that Crawford's became
 the first advertising agency that carved out a unique position within a
 highly competitive market by defining its visual production and
 organisational identity entirely through notions of creativity. This
 places Crawford's at the heart of the emergence of a cultural economy for
 which creative skills are a paramount source of value creation. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 181-197 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802243594 
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Author-X-Name-First: Janice 
Author-X-Name-Last: Traflet 
Author-Name: Elton McGoun 
Author-X-Name-First: Elton 
Author-X-Name-Last: McGoun 
Title: HAS ELVIS LEFT THE BUILDING? 
Abstract:
  This article probes the emergence and evolution of a culture of celebrity
 in the field of mutual fund management. After discussing the broad
 contours of the star-manager trend as well as specific examples from
 various historical junctures, this paper identifies and evaluates several
 theories to help explain the rise of celebrity fund managers. Finally,
 this article also endeavors to assess the importance of this trend, the
 likelihood of it persisting, as well as the long term impact of a culture
 of celebrity suffusing the world of mutual fund management. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 199-215 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802243628 
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Author-Name: John Sinclair 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sinclair 
Title: BRANDING AND BELONGING 
Abstract:
  Branding is an economic and cultural process. Branding endows goods and
 services with value which corporations protect as their intellectual
 property, enabling brands to support share prices and be traded as assets
 in takeovers and mergers, at the same time as they serve to differentiate
 products competitively in the marketplace. Yet this &#x2018;brand
 value&#x2019; depends on cultural perceptions of the meaning and worth of
 a brand. More than the unique image or positioning of a brand being
 maintained relative to others of its kind, such perceptions may involve
 the expressive and emotional attachment of consumers, and this may be very
 widely shared. This paper argues that, with certain brands, such shared
 attachment can occur on a national basis, so that they become symbols of
 national belonging. Whereas consumers attribute a putative foreign
 national origin to some global brands -- for example, Harley-Davidson is
 unequivocally &#x2018;American&#x2019; -- they relate to other brands as
 expressive of their own national origin. This identification often
 persists even when national brands are taken over by global corporations,
 since the brand's association with the nation is a major dimension of its
 value, or the &#x2018;brand equity&#x2019; which the new global owner has
 paid for, and intends to capitalise upon. The paper examines instances in
 which this has happened in Australia, such as the traditional brand
 Vegemite, long ago acquired by Kraft, and also cases where the Australian
 associations of a brand have been exploited in establishing its global
 identity, notably Foster's Lager. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 217-231 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802243636 
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Author-Name: Liz McFall 
Author-X-Name-First: Liz 
Author-X-Name-Last: McFall 
Title: COMMENTARY 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 233-237 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802243651 
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Title: EDITORS&#x2019; INTRODUCTION 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 239-239 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802476921 
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Author-Name: Alan Warde 
Author-X-Name-First: Alan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Warde 
Title: INTRODUCTION 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 241-243 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802476947 
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Author-Name: Steph Lawler 
Author-X-Name-First: Steph 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lawler 
Title: THE MIDDLE CLASSES AND THEIR ARISTOCRATIC OTHERS 
Abstract:
  This article considers English middle-classness in terms of identity,
 dispositions and manners, in the context of a project of middle-class
 self-distinction from the aristocracy. Taking as a case study broadsheet
 press coverage of the break-up of the relationship between Prince William
 and Kate Middleton, it examines the ways in which such coverage uses the
 concept of &#x2018;class&#x2019; in two senses: as an artificial system,
 and as a (naturalized) property of the person. These two meanings of class
 slide into each other, so that class contempt can be used against persons
 who are seen to lack the appropriate, &#x2018;natural&#x2019; qualities.
 Using Bourdieu's concept of habitus and its related notion of
 &#x2018;generative forgetting&#x2019;, I argue that the naturalization of
 middle-classed dispositions is an important means through which class is
 deployed in contemporary England. When (as in this case study) some
 challenge is seen to be mounted to this naturalization, a whole symbolic
 economy of taste and manners is seen as being undermined and the anxieties
 around middle-class existence are revealed. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 245-261 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802476954 
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Author-Name: Mich&#xE8;le Ollivier 
Author-X-Name-First: Mich&#xE8;le 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ollivier 
Title: REVISITING DISTINCTION 
Abstract:
  An important challenge to Bourdieu's theory of taste over the past
 decades has been how to theorize class distinction in contexts where class
 identities are not particularly salient and where boundaries between high
 and low culture seem increasingly permeable. Class distinction is
 sometimes presented as individualized rather than collective, but what is
 meant by this is not always very clear. Empirical studies of taste often
 function with a fuzzy concept of class and pay little attention to
 dimensions of inequality other than class. This paper seeks to remedy
 these difficulties in two main ways. First, I propose to reframe class
 analysis to take into account recent developments in theories of social
 differentiation, social division and symbolic boundaries. Second, I argue
 that class distinction is embedded in more general conceptions of
 excellence and the good life. Cultural eclecticism builds on a vision of
 excellence as simultaneously individual and collective and as innate and
 achieved. I illustrate the usefulness of this framework by discussing
 Richard Florida's work on the rise of the creative class. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 263-279 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802476970 
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Author-Name: Philippe Coulangeon 
Author-X-Name-First: Philippe 
Author-X-Name-Last: Coulangeon 
Title: THE CULTURAL DISILLUSIONMENT OF SCHOOL MASSIFICATION IN FRANCE FROM 1981 TO 2003 
Abstract:
  The massification of secondary education is one of the current changes in
 Western societies most abundantly analysed. In France, whereas just under
 a quarter of each generation reached Baccalaureate level as at the start
 of the 1980s, nearly two-thirds did by the end of the 1990s. While the
 economic consequences of this stunning increase, which occurred primarily
 between 1985 and 1995, have attracted particular attention, the effects go
 beyond the labour market. To wit, they contribute more broadly to a
 revolution in mores, lifestyles, consumer habits, moral and political
 attitudes, behaviours in the field of health and cultural practices.
 Specifically, it is generally expected that longer-term education will be
 conducive to greater familiarity with highbrow culture and rejection of
 popular culture. Yet, on these points, the cultural impact of school
 massification appears relatively uncertain. In this article, we consider
 the cultural effects of extension to the duration of secondary and higher
 education, based on data from surveys of cultural practices conducted by
 the French Ministry of Culture and the National Institute of Statistics
 and Economic Research. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 281-304 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802477002 
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Author-Name: Jean-Pascal Daloz 
Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Pascal 
Author-X-Name-Last: Daloz 
Title: TOWARDS THE CULTURAL CONTEXTUALIZATION OF SOCIAL DISTINCTION 
Abstract:
  The article draws on the sensibility of a comparativist which leads to
 scepticism about the possibility of any general theory of social
 distinction applicable to most societies. The first part shows how the
 version of cultural analysis favoured by the author (concerned with
 patterns of meanings) sheds doubt on the transferability of Bourdieu's
 model elaborated for the French case in the 1960s. It is argued that this
 reading grid has privileged a specific version at the expense of the
 multi-faceted and often contradictory workings of social distinction
 throughout the world. Particularly, but not exclusively, when societies
 are structured according to vertical axes, the Bourdieusian scheme proves
 to be non-operative because &#x2018;symbolic struggles&#x2019; are
 experienced very differently. Comparative studies should therefore
 question the explanatory value of classic theoretical frameworks by
 contrasting singularities. The second part of the article contributes to
 the analysis of social distinction by suggesting ways forward for
 empirical investigations. Six avenues of research, considered to be
 significant to the understanding of divergent manifestations (and logics)
 of distinction, are successively discussed: the meaningfulness of signs of
 distinction; the contrasting attitudes of ostentation and subduedness; the
 question of paragons; synecdochic strategies; the relative value placed
 upon quantity and quality in establishing a prestigious life-style; and
 processes of involution. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 305-320 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802477010 
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Author-Name: Alan Warde 
Author-X-Name-First: Alan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Warde 
Title: DIMENSIONS OF A SOCIAL THEORY OF TASTE 
Abstract:
  This paper draws upon and draws together some key propositions made in
 this special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy on cultural
 consumption, classification and power. Based on reconsiderations of Pierre
 Bourdieu's Distinction, it seeks ways give greater coherence to social
 theories of taste. It suggests that evaluations of Distinction depend in
 part on whether critics are concerned with understanding taste formation,
 judgments of taste, or justifications of taste. Exploring this, it first
 discusses the generalizability of the analysis presented in Distinction,
 focussing on criticisms of the main concepts deployed -- habitus, cultural
 capital and legitimate culture. Finding them insufficient in themselves,
 the paper proceeds to examine analytical approaches to changing patterns
 of taste, to social class and judgments of social standing based upon
 tastes, and to the making of aesthetic justifications of cultural
 practice. The consequences for a research agenda in the sociology of
 culture and the theoretical understanding of taste are outlined. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 321-336 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802477069 
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Author-Name: Mary Poovey 
Author-X-Name-First: Mary 
Author-X-Name-Last: Poovey 
Title: BENEATH THE HORIZON OF CULTURAL VISIBILITY 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 337-347 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802477077 
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Author-Name: Tim Newton 
Author-X-Name-First: Tim 
Author-X-Name-Last: Newton 
Title: REVIEW ESSAY 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 349-354 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802477101 
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Author-Name: John Frow 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Frow 
Title: REVIEW ESSAY 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 355-359 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802477127 
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Author-Name: Patrick Joyce 
Author-X-Name-First: Patrick 
Author-X-Name-Last: Joyce 
Title: BOOK REVIEW 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 361-363 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 1 
Year: 2008 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350802477135 
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Author-Name: Tony Bennett 
Author-X-Name-First: Tony 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bennett 
Author-Name: Liz McFall 
Author-X-Name-First: Liz 
Author-X-Name-Last: McFall 
Author-Name: Mike Pryke 
Author-X-Name-First: Mike 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pryke 
Title: EDITORS&#x2019; INTRODUCTION 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 1-1 
Issue: 1-2 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903063719 
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Author-Name: Tony Bennett 
Author-X-Name-First: Tony 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bennett 
Author-Name: Chris Healy 
Author-X-Name-First: Chris 
Author-X-Name-Last: Healy 
Title: INTRODUCTION 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 3-10 
Issue: 1-2 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903063776 
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Author-Name: Evelyn Ruppert 
Author-X-Name-First: Evelyn 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruppert 
Title: BECOMING PEOPLES 
Abstract:
  While the census is sometimes understood to be an objectifying practice
 that constructs and makes up a population, in this paper I am concerned
 with how it is necessary to produce census subjects in order to construct
 population. By drawing on formulations by Latour, Deleuze and Law, I
 conceive of census taking as a practice performed by heterogeneous
 socio-technical arrangements of actors -- humans, paper forms, categories,
 concepts, definitions, topography, geography -- whose mediations,
 interactions and encounters produce census subjects. It is through the
 relays and interactions between varying and never fixed technological,
 natural and cultural actors that census taking is performed. I analyse
 these arrangements as constituting agencements, which focuses our
 attention on how agency and action are configured by and contingent upon
 the socio-technical arrangements that make them up. Agencements assume
 different socio-technical configurations and thus construct different
 social realities and populations that cannot be captured in a single
 account. The argument is advanced through an account of the taking of what
 was declared the first &#x2018;scientific&#x2019; enumeration of
 &#x2018;Indians&#x2019; and &#x2018;Eskimos,&#x2019; the Aboriginal
 inhabitants of the Canadian Far North in 1911. I argue that the
 agencements were not able to bring forth the subjectivities necessary to
 construct population in the Far North. Not able to find subjects then,
 census taking could not produce nor construct a population in the Far
 North and the practice of census taking ended up creating a record of a
 census &#x2018;other&#x2019; -- an indeterminate multitude that could not
 identify and could not be identified as part of the population. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 11-31 
Issue: 1-2 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903063909 
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Author-Name: Tim Rowse 
Author-X-Name-First: Tim 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rowse 
Title: THE ONTOLOGICAL POLITICS OF &#x2018;CLOSING THE GAPS&#x2019; 
Abstract:
  In Australia and New Zealand, the realization of the knowledge object
 &#x2018;national population&#x2019; makes it necessary to involve
 Indigenous Australians and M&#x101;ori in the Census. Both Indigenous
 peoples have engaged in the Census and have made use of the resulting
 official statistics in their self-representation as peoples not yet
 accorded social justice. This paper considers two of the issues of
 representing Indigenous peoples as populations: where to draw the
 distinction that makes the non-Indigenous/Indigenous population binary;
 and how to prevent the quantitative representation
 (&#x2018;population&#x2019;) from subverting the qualitative
 representation (&#x2018;people&#x2019;). That &#x2018;population&#x2019;
 might trump &#x2018;people&#x2019; is arguably an effect of the
 nation-state being a kind of &#x2018;method assemblage&#x2019; in which
 people are arrayed as social entities that are knowable in certain terms.
 Drawing on the terms of recent liberal political theory, the paper poses
 the question of the &#x2018;civicity&#x2019; of Indigenous Australians and
 M&#x101;ori, concluding that there are ways that Indigenous intellectuals
 might use population data to substantiate their claims to people-hood. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 33-48 
Issue: 1-2 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903063917 
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Author-Name: Liz Mcfall 
Author-X-Name-First: Liz 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mcfall 
Title: THE <italic>AGENCEMENT</italic> OF INDUSTRIAL BRANCH LIFE ASSURANCE 
Abstract:
  Agencements are arrangements endowed with the capacity of acting in
 different ways depending upon how they are configured. In advocating the
 term &#x2018;agencement&#x2019; Callon's aim is to signal the close
 interweaving of words and actions and thus jettison the more Austinian
 associations of performativity. Agencement calls attention to the various
 processes by which economic actors, both human and non-human, are endowed
 with the fixtures, fittings and devices necessary to conduct themselves in
 particular ways. Thus depending upon how things are arranged or
 configured, disinterested or selfish, calculative or non-calculative,
 individual or collective agencies become possible. This model works well
 to describe the emergence of markets for industrial branch life assurance
 in the UK from the nineteenth century. Companies like the Prudential and
 the Pearl reacted to the conflicts, crises and controversies in the
 commercial market and the competition between socialized and privatized or
 prudentialist insurance models with Industrial Branch Assurance. This
 claimed to provide security for the thrifty poor by employing an army of
 agents whose weekly premium collections helped impose the discipline of
 thrift and security. Through the notion of agencement, the effect of
 hybrid combinations of human bodies, material equipment, technical devices
 and cognitive processes in creating a sustainable market for a peculiarly
 expensive financial savings product targeted at working class thrift is
 exposed. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 49-65 
Issue: 1-2 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903063933 
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Author-Name: Celia Lury 
Author-X-Name-First: Celia 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lury 
Title: BRAND AS ASSEMBLAGE 
Abstract:
  This paper draws out the continuities between understandings of mass
 product as developed in the Frankfurt school with contemporary
 understandings of assemblage by way of an investigation of the brand.
 Drawing on recent developments in mathematics, it argues that the space of
 the assemblage is a space that is simultaneously mapped and brought into
 being in a logic of complex topological functionalities. It proposes that
 it is the implementation of the rationality of this new logic of space --
 and the emergence of abstract, &#x2018;optimizing&#x2019; objects such as
 brands -- that is captured in the notion of assemblage. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 67-82 
Issue: 1-2 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903064022 
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Author-Name: Kay Anderson 
Author-X-Name-First: Kay 
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson 
Author-Name: Colin Perrin 
Author-X-Name-First: Colin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Perrin 
Title: THINKING <italic>WITH</italic> THE HEAD 
Abstract:
  This paper draws upon assemblage theory to challenge the familiar
 argument that nineteenth century craniometry -- the practice of head
 measuring -- was simply a racist practice. Approaching this practice as
 constitutive rather than derivative of racial discourse, we consider how
 race might be rethought if the head were regarded, not as just another
 focus for the racialization of the body, but as integral to the
 elaboration of a &#x2018;biological&#x2019; conception of race. Taking up
 the post-Linneaun context in which this conception of race was elaborated,
 the paper documents how early nineteenth century debates about the
 distinctiveness of the human -- classically identified with the soul or
 the mind -- centred precisely upon the head. The practice of head
 measuring has to be understood in this context. And the emergence of an
 idea of racial biology can be traced, not to some attempt to
 &#x2018;naturalize&#x2019; racist or ethnocentric prejudices, but to the
 effort of craniometrists to demonstrate the material existence of the
 mind. An alternative view of race thus comes into focus: beyond its usual
 characterization in the terms of an inter-subjective dynamics or identity
 politics, it appears as intimately bound up with this effort to maintain
 the privilege of the human over all other life-forms. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 83-98 
Issue: 1-2 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903064089 
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Author-Name: Tony Bennett 
Author-X-Name-First: Tony 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bennett 
Title: MUSEUM, FIELD, COLONY 
Abstract:
  This paper proposes a set of theoretical and methodological coordinates
 for examining the role of museums in relation to the development of
 colonial forms of governmentality associated with the fieldwork phase in
 anthropology. It draws on assemblage theory to show how our understanding
 of the different ways in which museums act on the social is increased when
 their operations are considered in relation to the different assemblages
 in which they are inscribed. It draws on Foucauldian theory to distinguish
 how museums act on the social via the public or in the form of milieus.
 These perspectives are complemented by Latour's account of the circulation
 of reference between fieldwork site and laboratory to account for the
 flows between museum, field and colony associated with colonial forms of
 governmentality. These arguments are illustrated by considering the
 development of the Musée de l'Homme in the 1930s in relation to the
 development of new forms of French colonial administration governed by the
 political rationality of colonial humanism. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 99-116 
Issue: 1-2 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903064097 
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Author-Name: Sharon Macdonald 
Author-X-Name-First: Sharon 
Author-X-Name-Last: Macdonald 
Title: REASSEMBLING NUREMBERG, REASSEMBLING HERITAGE 
Abstract:
  This article explores the reassembly of the city of Nuremberg, Germany,
 through its heritage post- World War II. It does so primarily through
 consideration of two aspects of post-War heritage assembly and reassembly.
 First, it looks at the reconstruction of the city in the aftermath of
 bombing, with particular attention to the reassembling of historically
 significant architecture, though also in light of debates about
 reconstruction (of former buildings) versus construction (new build).
 Second, it investigates the making of Nazi architecture into heritage,
 initially through legislation and later through other accoutrements of
 heritage, such as information panels and guided tours. It is concerned,
 both for this specific case and also more widely, with what work the
 distinctive assemblage known as 'heritage&#x2019; can perform, including
 assembling and reassembling other entities, such as place, temporality,
 moralities and citizenship. In this way, the article seeks to explore the
 contribution that an assemblage perspective might make to the
 understanding of heritage as well as to consider some of its limitations. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 117-134 
Issue: 1-2 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903064121 
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Author-Name: Helen Rees Leahy 
Author-X-Name-First: Helen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rees Leahy 
Title: ASSEMBLING ART, CONSTRUCTING HERITAGE 
Abstract:
  On 27 August 2008, the National Galleries in Edinburgh and London
 launched a campaign to raise &#xA3;50 million in order to purchase jointly
 a painting by Titian that had been hanging in the Edinburgh gallery since
 1945. The painting, Diana and Actaeon (1556--1559) was one of the
 &#x2018;Sutherland pictures&#x2019;: a collection of 29 paintings on loan
 from the Dukes of Sutherland that had formed the core of the gallery's old
 master displays for 63 years. The complex nexus of aesthetic, cultural,
 financial and political issues raised by this very public sale of private
 property provides a starting point for this paper which aims both to
 identify the entangled relationships forged between artworks, individuals
 and institutions through which both market and cultural value are
 produced. The aim of this paper is to analyse the 2008 sale of Diana and
 Actaeon in terms of an interaction, rather than an antipathy, between
 cultural and economic practices. Following Callon's lead, the paper
 explores how the commoditization of the work of art involves its
 disentanglement from the numerous relationships and interdependencies in
 which it is enmeshed so that its market exchange becomes possible (Callon
 1998). However, the underlying frame that makes the exchange possible can
 never be hermetically sealed: the &#x2018;outside world&#x2019; of
 relationships and interdependencies is always present giving rise to
 &#x2018;overflows&#x2019;. Callon's concept of &#x2018;overflow&#x2019;
 from the commoditization of the artwork also seeps into what Bruno Latour
 has described as the &#x2018;catchment&#x2019; (or trajectory) of a
 painting's journey through time and space. The trajectory of Diana and
 Acteaon provides a vivid illustration of a complex catchment acquired over
 350 years and, specifically, how its commoditization first in 1798 and
 again in 2008 can be viewed through the lens of Callon's perspective of
 disentanglement and re-entanglement. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 135-149 
Issue: 1-2 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903064154 
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Author-Name: Gerard Goggin 
Author-X-Name-First: Gerard 
Author-X-Name-Last: Goggin 
Title: ASSEMBLING MEDIA CULTURE 
Abstract:
  In this paper, I consider the problematic of assembling culture from the
 standpoint of media. Specifically I take the example of mobile media --
 emergent digital networked technologies that centre on cellular mobile
 networks, but also intersect with other technologies such as the Internet
 and portable music and video devices. My particular interest is in these
 new assemblages of media culture in which mobiles are now centrally
 implicated. To explore this, I look closely at the case of mobile
 television -- a new media technology battling controversies, indifference
 and user antipathy in order to find a stable, &#x2018;blackboxed&#x2019;
 form. Media is relatively undertheorized in relation to assemblage, and in
 mobile media we find an excellent case in point of what exactly is at
 stake in contemporary constructions of culture and the social. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 151-167 
Issue: 1-2 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903064162 
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Author-Name: Helen Verran 
Author-X-Name-First: Helen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Verran 
Title: ON ASSEMBLAGE 
Abstract:
  In this paper I juxtapose the work of the 2003--2006 Australian Research
 Council Project &#x2018;Indigenous Knowledge and Resource Management in
 Northern Australia&#x2019; (IKRMNA) and the British imperial expedition of
 HMS Investigator (1800--1803) to scientifically reconnoitre what would
 become Australia. The first project explored the use of digital
 technologies in indigenous knowledge management, the second sought to add
 to the imperial archive. I argue that the culture and knowledge work of
 both projects is usefully revealed through the analytic concept of
 assemblage. In turn their juxtaposition usefully articulates the analytic
 leverage gained in the concept's use. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 169-182 
Issue: 1-2 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903064188 
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Author-Name: Gay Hawkins 
Author-X-Name-First: Gay 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hawkins 
Title: THE POLITICS OF BOTTLED WATER 
Abstract:
  This paper investigates the rise of bottled water as a commodity that has
 inaugurated distinct drinking conducts and material politics. Rather than
 reiterate existing critiques of this phenomenon based on exposing the
 political economy of the industry, the focus, here, is on the constitutive
 role of bottles in social and political life. In seeking to understand the
 potency of bottles in various forms of everyday conduct the paper analyses
 the diversity of associations between humans and bottles and the ways in
 which the bottle, in some arrangements, can be understood as having
 political capacities. Once the bottle's contingent materiality is
 recognized, it ceases to be simply an inert bad object and becomes,
 instead, a heterogeneous and complex artefact that participates in
 political process in different ways; something that is, quite literally,
 the stuff of politics. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 183-195 
Issue: 1-2 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903064196 
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Author-Name: Andrew Pickering 
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pickering 
Title: THE POLITICS OF THEORY 
Abstract:
  This essay explores the politics of theory and how theoretical analysis
 in science and technology studies might inform real-world conduct. I focus
 on objects and projects that can serve as &#x2018;ontological
 theatre&#x2019; for a nonmodern perspective -- that both evoke and act out
 the ontology that I associate with my analysis of &#x2018;the mangle of
 practice&#x2019;. These are my models for &#x2018;producing another
 world&#x2019;. In conclusion, I contrast this proposal with Latour's
 political articulation of actor-network theory: Latour aims to reassemble
 the social at the meta-level of political representation, without
 modifying our mundane practices, while I am concerned here with
 possibilities for systematically transforming the latter. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 197-212 
Issue: 1-2 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903064204 
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Author-Name: Barry Hindess 
Author-X-Name-First: Barry 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hindess 
Title: A TALE OF ORIGINS AND DISPARITY 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 213-217 
Issue: 1-2 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903064345 
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Author-Name: Stephen Legg 
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Legg 
Title: AN &#x2018;INDISPENSABLE HYPODERMIS&#x2019;? 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 219-225 
Issue: 1-2 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903064352 
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Author-Name: John Clarke 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Clarke 
Title: PROGRAMMATIC STATEMENTS AND DULL EMPIRICISM 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 227-231 
Issue: 1-2 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903064378 
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Author-Name: Tony Bennett 
Author-X-Name-First: Tony 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bennett 
Author-Name: Liz McFall 
Author-X-Name-First: Liz 
Author-X-Name-Last: McFall 
Author-Name: Michael Pryke 
Author-X-Name-First: Michael 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pryke 
Title: EDITORS' INTRODUCTION 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 237-238 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903345397 
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Author-Name: Koray &#xC7;ali&#x15F;kan 
Author-X-Name-First: Koray 
Author-X-Name-Last: &#xC7;ali&#x15F;kan 
Title: THE MEANING OF PRICE IN WORLD MARKETS 
Abstract:
  What is a global price? Studying the making of prices in spot, options
 and futures markets, the article ethnographically addresses this question
 by using world cotton trade as its empirical context. It argues that
 global market prices are not set by the mere coming together of demand and
 supply, but are produced as mercantile tools. These tools or prosthetic
 prices are realized by a multiplicity of actors. The article shows that
 instead of focusing narrowly on price setting, policy makers and
 researchers should attend to the conditions of price realization. In world
 and regional markets, prices are realized in multiple forms. Drawing on
 contemporary economic anthropology and sociology, the article maps the
 rich world of prices in their multiple manifestations and processes of
 realization. Price realization in the world cotton market is performed and
 maintained by constant interventions in the making of the markets and
 their prices through different forms of perceptions, scientific
 assumptions, standardizations of the object of exchange, various
 calculative tools, rumours and indexes. In conclusion, the article hints
 at the political implications and social scientific consequences of seeing
 the world price as a mercantile prosthesis. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 239-268 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903345462 
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Author-Name: Annemarie Mol 
Author-X-Name-First: Annemarie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mol 
Title: GOOD TASTE 
Abstract:
  In political theory citizens are defined as being willing to serve the
 &#x2018;common good&#x2019; while consumers are supposed to seek
 &#x2018;pleasure&#x2019;. The two terms pull in different directions, so
 that adding a hyphen is not enough to craft a figure capable of acting in
 ways that are generous as well as gratifying. This, or so I will argue, is
 linked with the understanding of the body that lurks in the background.
 The idea is that the body is naturally greedy. It only acts
 &#x2018;properly&#x2019; if norms are imposed on it from the outside. To
 interfere with this understanding, I seek help from advertisements for
 &#x2018;good food&#x2019; as well as from ethnographic research into the
 way bodily pleasure (rather than being innate) is being shaped in
 socio-material practices. It might as well be shaped in wise, sensitive
 and responsive ways. This leads me to suggest that, in theory, we
 experiment with a &#x2018;consumer-citizen&#x2019; whose normativity is
 literally incorporated. I propose that, despite the caveats, we might call
 this normativity good taste. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 269-283 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903345504 
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Author-Name: Nicky Gregson 
Author-X-Name-First: Nicky 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gregson 
Title: MATERIAL, LITERARY NARRATIVE AND CULTURAL ECONOMY 
Abstract:
  In this paper I argue that thinking about the material in cultural
 economy has much to gain from culture itself. Specifically, I explore the
 potential of literary narrative for conceptualizing and writing material
 within a performative cultural economy. Drawing on the industrial short
 stories of Primo Levi (<italic>The Periodic Table, The Wrench, A Tranquil
 Star</italic>), I provide a literal reading of these works, highlighting
 their foregrounding of material encounters, the importance of process (and
 not just product), and materials&#x2019; instability in process, and their
 connections to theorizations of economies as assemblage. The paper also
 explores how Levi writes material to presence using the techniques of
 narrative discourse, particularly mimesis. The paper concludes by arguing
 that narrative is a means to writing a performative cultural economy and
 that cultural economy needs to rekindle the arts of story-telling. Paying
 attention to literary narrative shows how this might be achieved. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 285-300 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903345520 
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Author-Name: Sean Nixon 
Author-X-Name-First: Sean 
Author-X-Name-Last: Nixon 
Title: UNDERSTANDING ORDINARY WOMEN 
Abstract:
  The paper reflects on the ways market research in Britain helped produce
 understandings of and information about the &#x2018;mass housewife&#x2019;
 in the 1950s and 1960s. The paper does this through a case study of the
 market research used and generated by the London subsidiary office of J.
 Walter Thompson advertising. The paper focuses on key client accounts, as
 well as the agency's non-product specific research, as a way of exploring
 how it sought to understand the ordinary housewife and her consumption
 habits. In exploring JWT London's approach to the &#x2018;mass
 market&#x2019; housewife, the paper draws on recent sociological arguments
 about advertising and market research that have conceptualized these
 commercial practices as technologies or socio-technical devices for
 &#x2018;making-up&#x2019; the consumer. However, the paper also seeks to
 revise certain aspects of this sociological approach. It does this by
 proposing a more differentiated sense of the various marketing and market
 research paradigms that were used by advertising agencies in order to
 contest the claim that post-war market research was subject to growing
 sophistication under the influence of the psychological sciences.
 Secondly, the paper seeks to bring a more international and specifically
 trans-Atlantic dimension to the understanding of post-war market research.
 US-derived techniques formed a visible presence within post-war British
 market research and constituted a key point of reference for British-based
 practitioners. This influence was neither totalizing nor did it go
 unchallenged, but even as they rejected elements of
 &#x2018;American&#x2019; approaches to the consumer, British practitioners
 still had to reckon with their intellectual authority and commercial force
 in this period. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 301-323 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903345546 
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Author-Name: Gerda Roelvink 
Author-X-Name-First: Gerda 
Author-X-Name-Last: Roelvink 
Title: BROADENING THE HORIZONS OF ECONOMY 
Abstract:
  From corporations to occupied factories, a growing number of widely
 accessible books and documentary films have emerged to represent an array
 of economic concerns and the groups gathered around them. Viewed as a new
 form of political association, these representations offer a lens to
 contemporary social change. This article draws on theories of
 performativity to explore the ways in which such diversely constituted
 assemblies might transform the economy. Representation has a number of
 different meanings; it relates to how economic concerns are discursively
 represented and thereby made real while also referring to the political
 representation of different groups gathered around that concern. Putting
 these two senses of representation together, this article examines the
 temporal and spatial composition of two alternative economic
 representations, the documentary films <italic>The Take and Les Glaneurs
 et la Glaneuse</italic> [<italic>The Gleaners and I</italic>]. Through The
 Take I explore the way in which alternative economies are performatively
 brought into being. I argue that The Gleaners and I illustrates how one
 might go about representing and reassembling the geography of economy
 through the idea of the periperformative. Together these films offer a way
 of broadening economy that has implications for the performative potential
 of research more generally. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 325-344 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903345561 
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Author-Name: G&#xF6;ran Bolin 
Author-X-Name-First: G&#xF6;ran 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bolin 
Title: SYMBOLIC PRODUCTION AND VALUE IN MEDIA INDUSTRIES 
Abstract:
  This article discusses value creation within the fields of cultural
 production. It departs from Bourdieu's field model, and seeks to develop
 it to fit unrestricted cultural production, for example television
 production. Bourdieu for the most part discussed the production of value
 (or forms of capital) in relation to fields of restricted cultural
 production, that is, within the fine arts (e.g. art, literature). Although
 one of his best known works dealt with television, one cannot say that he
 used the possibilities inherent in his own theory thoroughly enough to
 analyse this field of mass production. This article builds on recent
 discussions on the role of field theory in media studies, and seeks to
 contribute to the development of a theory of value production in fields of
 large-scale or unrestricted cultural production. It is argued that the
 conflation of commercial value with other kinds of value is more intense
 in the subfield of unrestricted cultural production, as production in this
 part of the field needs to obey outer demand in a way that production at
 the pole of restricted production does not. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 345-361 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903345579 
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Author-Name: Michelangelo Paganopoulos 
Author-X-Name-First: Michelangelo 
Author-X-Name-Last: Paganopoulos 
Title: THE CONCEPT OF &#x2018;ATHONIAN ECONOMY&#x2019; IN THE MONASTERY OF VATOPAIDI 
Abstract:
  This paper investigates the underlying principle of
 &#x2018;economy&#x2019; in the Greek Orthodox monastery of Vatopaidi,
 Mount Athos, in complementary relation to the monastic ideal of
 &#x2018;virginity&#x2019; as the means of separating monastic from secular
 life. In this context, &#x2018;economy&#x2019; represents an internal and
 external dichotomy: an economy within the spiritual self (&#x2018;economy
 of passions&#x2019;) and the monastery (&#x2018;law of the house&#x2019;),
 expressed in traditional practices, such as prayer, confession, psalmody,
 and painting; and an economy of relations between the monastery and the
 materialist &#x2018;cosmopolitan&#x2019; world outside Athos, which is
 manifested by Vatopaidi's strong financial and political status in the
 Orthodox world. The material reveals the overlapping connection between
 the notions of the &#x2018;self&#x2019;, the &#x2018;monastery&#x2019;,
 and the &#x2018;world&#x2019;, in order to critically evaluate the
 cultural economy of Vatopaidi in relation to its historical past, and in
 connection to its present political and economic status within and against
 the Greek state. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 363-378 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903345595 
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Author-Name: Martin Parker 
Author-X-Name-First: Martin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Parker 
Title: &#x2018;TONY SOPRANO ON MANAGEMENT&#x2019; 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 379-392 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 2 
Year: 2009 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350903345645 
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Author-X-Name-First:  
Author-X-Name-Last: The Editors 
Title: EDITORS' INTRODUCTION 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 1-1 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530351003617503 
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Author-Name: Karin Winroth 
Author-X-Name-First: Karin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Winroth 
Author-Name: Jesper Blomberg 
Author-X-Name-First: Jesper 
Author-X-Name-Last: Blomberg 
Author-Name: Hans Kjellberg 
Author-X-Name-First: Hans 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kjellberg 
Title: ENACTING OVERLAPPING MARKETS 
Abstract:
  During the last two decades, the financial sector has been characterized
 by dramatic growth as well as increased specialization and
 professionalization. Today, a host of more or less clearly delimited
 professional groups enact the machinery of the financial markets. The
 concerted work performed by these groups does not, however, presuppose
 that they share a similar view of the markets they enact. Employing the
 notion of boundary object, this article explores how two specific groups
 of market professionals, traders and analysts, construct the identities of
 shares. Differences in the two groups' respective versions of these
 objects are also found to contribute to the enactment of different, yet
 overlapping versions of markets. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 3-18 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530351003617529 
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Author-Name: Marta Herrero 
Author-X-Name-First: Marta 
Author-X-Name-Last: Herrero 
Title: PERFORMING CALCULATION IN THE ART MARKET 
Abstract:
  The purpose of this article is to suggest a model of calculation in art
 markets based upon the work of Pierre Bourdieu and of actor-network
 theory. It will be argued that Bourdieu's concepts of capitals, economic,
 symbolic and cultural are useful for the specificity they lend to value
 making processes in the art market. However, actor-network theory's
 proposal of a distributed form of agency between humans and non-humans
 (e.g. calcualtion tools) is favoured here, posing a fundamental challenge
 to Bourdieu's notion of agency as resting solely at the hands of human
 agents. In order to understand the performance of calculation, this
 article explores the role of catalogues as an example of a market device
 in the Scottish auction market. It will be argued that the performativity
 of the catalogue cannot be fully understood without taking into account
 not only how it represents and enacts the value/s of aeshtetic objects,
 e.g. paintings, but also how this performance is mediated by its role as
 an aesthetic object. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 19-34 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530351003617552 
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Author-Name: Phillip Mar 
Author-X-Name-First: Phillip 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mar 
Author-Name: Kay Anderson 
Author-X-Name-First: Kay 
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson 
Title: THE CREATIVE ASSEMBLAGE 
Abstract:
  This paper contributes to theorizing contemporary art collaborations in
 the context of the mediatory labour required of artists, and the
 complexity of the collaborative contexts in which aesthetic production is
 now enmeshed. In order to account for this complexity without reducing its
 analysis to &#x2018;structured fields&#x2019; or &#x2018;systems&#x2019;,
 we use elements of assemblage theory in a quite specific way: drawing on
 DeLanda's work on social and organizational forms; and Law's
 &#x2018;method assemblage&#x2019; to analyse the specificity of working
 interfaces that craft new boundaries and working relations. We develop a
 case study of C3West, an Australian initiative encompassing arts
 institutions, businesses, and communities. The analysis traces assemblage
 processes that generate dispersed working arrangements (partnerships,
 intersectoral, and interdisciplinary working interfaces) across apparently
 incommensurable domains, yet without forming overarching structures or
 requiring common rationales for cooperation. To demonstrate the work of
 assemblage, we discuss the practices of French artist Sylvie Blocher and
 the multidisciplinary collective, Campement Urbain, who employ aesthetic
 and performative means to forge new institutional practices and alliances
 for intervening in urban planning processes in regional Sydney. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 35-51 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530351003617560 
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Author-Name: Joshua Barkan 
Author-X-Name-First: Joshua 
Author-X-Name-Last: Barkan 
Title: LIBERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE CORPORATE PERSON 
Abstract:
  This article focuses on corporate personhood, the controversial argument,
 advanced particularly in the United States, that corporations are persons
 within the scope of the law and are therefore endowed with rights. Though
 often examined as a causal factor in the development of modern corporate
 power, in this article I argue that corporate personhood is more useful as
 a tool for understanding the problematic of liberalism and the
 transformations associated with the definition of persons under the
 liberal rule of law. To explain why, I focus on debates about corporate
 personhood in prominent legal and philosophical texts from the turn of the
 twentieth century. Highlighting the contingent production of ideas about
 corporate personhood, I show the ways that writers within the U.S. context
 rethought corporate personhood, which was traditionally a discourse about
 sovereign power, in terms of liberal rights as a way of promoting economic
 forms of government. By focusing on the problematic, we see the ways that
 corporate capitalism was never simply a set of economic relations, but
 also a way of organizing, ordering and intervening in life. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 53-68 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530351003617578 
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Author-Name: Alberto Corsín Jiménez 
Author-X-Name-First: Alberto 
Author-X-Name-Last: Corsín Jiménez 
Title: THE POLITICAL PROPORTIONS OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE 
Abstract:
  The article offers a critique of the proportional epistemology shaping
 political and economic theory about the public value of knowledge and
 opens up the potential for alternative descriptions afforded by
 ethnography. It does so by exploring one particular exemplification of the
 new public value of knowledge found in political calls for making Science
 and Society converge. Such convergence takes at least three forms: the
 public value of research; the economic public goodness of commercial
 science; and the public accountability of science as a trustworthy
 enterprise. I pursue this interest through an ethnography of the
 production of research among historians of science and philologists at
 Spain's National Research Council (CSIC). My concern here is to describe
 the epistemological economy of research at CSIC and provide an account of
 the terms of engagement through which researchers make sense of and relate
 to the social conditions of their own work. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 69-84 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530351003617586 
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Author-Name: Cori Hayden 
Author-X-Name-First: Cori 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hayden 
Title: THE PROPER COPY 
Abstract:
  Efforts to make (and keep) knowledge public have provided a powerful
 counter-model to the recent expansion of exclusive intellectual property
 rights in such arenas as information technology, digital media, biological
 research, and pharmaceutical access. While sympathetic to the impulse to
 counteract the new &#x2018;enclosures&#x2019; with knowledge made public,
 this essay critically interrogates some of the constitutive limits -- in
 fact, the constitutive outsides -- to these counter formulations. Paying
 particular attention to how public domain initiatives, like their strict
 intellectual property counterparts, also police the line between the
 proper and the improper copy, I argue that mechanisms for keeping
 knowledge public do not just circle the wagons against the predations of
 the Monsantos and Microsofts of the world. In their rhetorical and
 normative commitments to the proper copy, they also risk reproducing some
 of the same constrictions and exclusions that we tend to associate with
 (privatized) acts of enclosure itself. I explore this argument first in
 reference to creative commons and copyright, which can reproduce a strong
 ideological commitment to improvement -- &#x2018;innovation&#x2019; or
 &#x2018;creativity&#x2019; -- against the mere copy. What is the cost, I
 ask, of making the idea of improvement the price of admission not just to
 intellectual property claims, but to participation in newly
 &#x2018;democratic&#x2019; public and common spaces of knowledge
 production? Second, I look to global pharmaceutical politics --
 specifically, regulatory efforts to improve access to cheaper copied and
 generic drugs in Argentina -- to raise questions about the public domain's
 normative place in the continued expansion and harmonization of
 intellectual property regimes in the so-called global South. Together,
 these discussions suggest how the public domain and the commons, like
 their IP counterparts, can rhetorically and normatively expand and be
 secured against the improper copy. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 85-102 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530351003617602 
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Author-Name: Georgina Born 
Author-X-Name-First: Georgina 
Author-X-Name-Last: Born 
Author-Name: Andrew Barry 
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew 
Author-X-Name-Last: Barry 
Title: ART-SCIENCE 
Abstract:
  In this paper we examine the emergent field of art-science, part of a
 heterogeneous space of overlapping interdisciplinary practices at the
 intersection of the arts, sciences and technologies. Art-science is often
 thought to exemplify Nowotny et al.'s (2001) &#x2018;mode-2&#x2019;
 knowledge production; indeed the institutions supporting art-science
 invariably claim that art-science contributes to the
 &#x2018;contextualization of science&#x2019; by rendering scientific and
 technical knowledge more accessible and accountable to its publics. Our
 argument, however, is that this approach fails to capture the ways in
 which art-science exhibits its own complex trajectories, which cannot be
 grasped in terms of an epochal transition in the mode of knowledge
 production. Drawing on ethnographic research on art-science practitioners
 and institutions in the USA, UK and Australia, our first aim is to
 indicate the heterogeneity of art-science by contrasting distinctive forms
 and genealogies of art-science. A second aim follows. Rather than simply
 multiplying the connections between science and its publics, we suggest
 that art-science is instructive in highlighting radically divergent
 conceptions and practices of publicness, and point to two such forms. We
 examine, first, the relations between science, art and the public in the
 UK from C. P. Snow's &#x2018;two cultures&#x2019; essay to the activities
 of the Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England. In these developments, art
 that is in dialogue with science is conceived primarily as a means by
 which the (absent) public for science can be interpellated: science is
 understood as complete, and as needing only to be communicated or applied,
 while art provides the means through which the public can be assembled and
 mobilized on behalf of science. We contrast this with a novel
 institutional programme in art-science pedagogy at the University of
 California, Irvine: the Masters programme in Arts, Computation and
 Engineering (ACE). Through the contents of the ACE teaching programme and
 the case of an art-science project concerned with the measurement of air
 pollution by ACE faculty member Beatriz da Costa, and with reference to
 the work of Hannah Arendt and Barbara Cassin, we suggest that art-science
 can act not so much as a way of assembling a public for science, but as a
 public experiment. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 103-119 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530351003617610 
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Author-Name: Claes Belfrage 
Author-X-Name-First: Claes 
Author-X-Name-Last: Belfrage 
Title: The Romantic Economist: Imagination in Economics 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 121-123 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530351003617628 
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Author-Name: Fabrizio Ferraro 
Author-X-Name-First: Fabrizio 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferraro 
Title: REVIEW ESSAY 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 125-128 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530351003617636 
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Author-Name: Simon Gunn 
Author-X-Name-First: Simon 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gunn 
Title: Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 129-131 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530351003617651 
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Author-Name: Jo Littler 
Author-X-Name-First: Jo 
Author-X-Name-Last: Littler 
Title: Capitalism's Eye: Cultural Spaces of the Commodity 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 133-135 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530351003617685 
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Author-Name: Franck Cochoy 
Author-X-Name-First: Franck 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cochoy 
Author-Name: Martin Giraudeau 
Author-X-Name-First: Martin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Giraudeau 
Author-Name: Liz McFall 
Author-X-Name-First: Liz 
Author-X-Name-Last: McFall 
Title: PERFORMATIVITY, ECONOMICS AND POLITICS 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 139-146 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2010.494116 
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Author-Name: Judith Butler 
Author-X-Name-First: Judith 
Author-X-Name-Last: Butler 
Title: PERFORMATIVE AGENCY 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 147-161 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2010.494117 
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Author-Name: Michel Callon 
Author-X-Name-First: Michel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Callon 
Title: PERFORMATIVITY, MISFIRES AND POLITICS 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 163-169 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2010.494119 
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Author-Name: Paul du Gay 
Author-X-Name-First: Paul 
Author-X-Name-Last: du Gay 
Title: PERFORMATIVITIES: BUTLER, CALLON AND THE MOMENT OF THEORY 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 171-179 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2010.494120 
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Author-Name: Christian Licoppe 
Author-X-Name-First: Christian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Licoppe 
Title: THE &#x2018;PERFORMATIVE TURN&#x2019; IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 181-188 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2010.494122 
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Author-Name: Timothy Mitchell 
Author-X-Name-First: Timothy 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mitchell 
Title: THE RESOURCES OF ECONOMICS 
Abstract:
  The 1973--1974 oil crisis has been called a textbook case of the law of
 supply and demand. This article examines the work that had to be done to
 make such a description viable. The work included bringing together a
 series of conflicts into a single field of political concern known as the
 &#x2018;energy crisis&#x2019;. It also included forms of confrontation and
 acts of sabotage in the Middle East that made it possible to transform the
 networks that transported oil supplies into a political instrument. This
 instrument served a dual purpose: redirecting the flow of profits from
 oil, and attempting to the settle the Palestine question. Parties to the
 crisis used market devices in an attempt to frame its causes and possible
 solutions. However, the events of 1973--1974 exceeded the attempts to
 contain them as a matter of market forces. The question of supply opened
 up new fields of doubt about the possible limits to reserves of oil; the
 increasing difficulty of forecasting future demand and prices opened up
 new ways of mapping the future; and the inability to prevent catastrophic
 oil spills helped trigger the emergence of new matters of concern, in
 particular the preservation of the environment. Yet the events of
 1973--1974 also triggered the unraveling of Keynesian economics, attacked
 by market technologies developed from the mid-1970s. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 189-204 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2010.494123 
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Author-Name: Liz McFall 
Author-X-Name-First: Liz 
Author-X-Name-Last: McFall 
Title: PRAGMATICS AND POLITICS 
Abstract:
  Using the case of industrial assurance, this paper argues that a focused
 concern with the pragmatics of market devices can offer a particularist
 politics of analysis by uncovering the material, technical and social
 conditions through which economic objects and persons are constituted.
 Industrial assurance grew exponentially in the UK after 1880 to become,
 through a series of political and economic twists and turns, by the 1910s
 the key commercial institution offering to &#x2018;foster and
 protect&#x2019; the savings of the poor. Deploying a business model --
 based on door-to-door agents' collection of small weekly premiums --
 unchanged in its key particulars for more than a century, industrial
 assurance was extraordinarily successful. The paper argues that pragmatic
 description of industrial assurance as an agencement reveals how entangled
 emerging industrial assurance markets were with political theorising,
 government and law 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 205-223 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2010.494124 
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Author-Name: Martin Giraudeau 
Author-X-Name-First: Martin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Giraudeau 
Title: PERFORMING PHYSIOCRACY 
Abstract:
  The story of Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours has often been described as
 one of success. The man was a well-known statesman, economist and
 entrepreneur in late eighteenth-century France and his main legacy, the
 famous and still thriving Du Pont company, suggests a brilliant
 trajectory. The aim of this paper, however, is to analyze Du Pont's
 failure in performing the political and economic doctrine of which he was
 an active promoter all through his life: physiocracy. In all of his very
 diverse activities, be they scientific, political, or entrepreneurial, Du
 Pont indeed deliberately attempted to enact this original liberal
 doctrine. He tried, along with fellow physiocrats, to introduce freedom of
 trade and enterprise in Old Regime French minds and economic practices.
 Later, when emigrating to the United States, he devised a plan for a
 physiocratic colony. But none of these ventures was actually a success
 during Du Pont's lifetime: the performation of some of physiocracy's main
 propositions only came later, in a diffuse and partial way. We contend
 that this relative failure of performativity can be explained by Du Pont's
 specific type of agency: one relying mainly on political engineering,
 based on personal ties and reputations, as well as on a strict distinction
 between ends and means. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 225-242 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2010.494125 
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Author-Name: Philippe Steiner 
Author-X-Name-First: Philippe 
Author-X-Name-Last: Steiner 
Title: GIFT-GIVING OR MARKET? 
Abstract:
  Human body parts (HBP) are made available to professionals either through
 market relations or through gift-giving. Market transactions were made
 legal in Iran during the 1980s; but this solution did not spread to the
 rest of the world. Nevertheless, the mere existence of a possible
 alternative to the current policy in favor of gift-giving opens up a
 political issue: are market relations legitimate and efficient in the
 domain of organ procurement? Once so stated, the question becomes: are
 economists able to perform such commerce as just another form of market
 relations? After a discussion of Michel Callon's theory of performativity,
 justifying the use of a restricted definition of performativity, the paper
 examines Alvin Roth's suggestion that a computerized matching market for
 non-compatible pairs of donor-recipient be created, and explains why this
 is a consistent example of performativity of gift-giving. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 243-259 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2010.494374 
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Author-Name: Sarah Green 
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah 
Author-X-Name-Last: Green 
Title: PERFORMING BORDER IN THE AEGEAN 
Abstract:
  This paper explores borders as conceptual entities that are performed.
 Rather than assume that the meaning of borders (or
 &#x2018;border-ness&#x2019;) holds steady while everything else changes,
 the paper considers borders as forms of &#x2018;performation&#x2019; in
 Callon's terms. It also argues that border is always about relations as
 much as separation, and that, combined with historically shifting theories
 of border, suggests that border as such cannot be taken for granted in
 understanding the difference borders make to peoples' lives. The paper
 considers differences in the way border has been performed in the Aegean
 in order to explore shifting theories of border in this region. It
 particularly focuses on the events leading up to the 1923 exchange of
 populations between Greece and Turkey, and more recent European-led
 attempts to control illegal migration across the Aegean, in exploring the
 interplay between border performed as place as opposed to border performed
 as abstract line. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 261-278 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2010.494376 
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Author-Name: Hans Kjellberg 
Author-X-Name-First: Hans 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kjellberg 
Author-Name: Claes-Fredrik Helgesson 
Author-X-Name-First: Claes-Fredrik 
Author-X-Name-Last: Helgesson 
Title: POLITICAL MARKETING 
Abstract:
  Markets are regularly relied upon to realize many different and changing
 values, a state of affairs that in turn attracts many efforts to engage
 with them. Such efforts, moreover, may draw on a wide variety of
 theoretical ideas about markets. Viewing real markets as on-going
 constructions, our aim is to explore different modes of engaging with
 markets to have them realize different values. We describe three different
 modes of engaging with markets based on empirical cases: (1) engaging to
 incorporate values in market exchanges; (2) engaging to reform the values
 that are to govern a market; and (3) engaging to represent the values
 produced by markets. We then use a fourth empirical case to expand on how
 the current realization of a market may interfere with and prove
 differentially fertile to efforts to incorporate, reform or represent
 values. Finally, we discuss when and how efforts to engage with markets
 may become political. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 279-297 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2010.494379 
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Author-Name: Franck Cochoy 
Author-X-Name-First: Franck 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cochoy 
Title: &#x2018;HOW TO BUILD DISPLAYS THAT SELL&#x2019; 
Abstract:
  Instead of looking at performativity in economics and politics, this
 paper proposes to explore the economic politics of performativity. More
 precisely, it focuses on the politics of <italic>Progressive
 Grocer</italic>, a trade journal which from the early 1920s thrived by
 promoting new ways to modernize the grocery business for a readership of
 small independent grocers. This journal faced a dilemma: while it had to
 bring some new thoughts, behavior and objects into the real world, it
 could achieve this goal only through paper means. <italic>Progressive
 Grocer</italic> shows how thoroughly such a dilemma can be overcome. This
 magazine does almost everything that can be done through the mediation of
 simple paper. <italic>Progressive Grocer</italic> implements a true
 politics of performativity. This politics consists of introducing a new
 kind of text, distinct from economic theories and managerial textbooks.
 Instead of just putting words into its pages in the hope that they would
 ultimately shape the external reality, <italic>Progressive Grocer</italic>
 relies on a language that mixes what is said and what it does, signs and
 artifacts, reports of actual practices and dreamed states of commerce. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 299-315 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 7 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2010.494380 
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Author-Name: Fabian Muniesa 
Author-X-Name-First: Fabian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Muniesa 
Author-Name: Anne-Sophie Trébuchet-Breitwiller 
Author-X-Name-First: Anne-Sophie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Trébuchet-Breitwiller 
Title: BECOMING A MEASURING INSTRUMENT 
Abstract:
  This article provides an ethnographic examination of olfactory consumer
 testing in the perfume industry. What kind of reality is generated within
 such practices? The analysis is focused on one particular testing method
 used in order to assess the hedonic performance of fine fragrances. The
 authors observe what happens inside the testing venue. The article
 concentrates on the problem of the simulacrum (how the reality provoked
 within the test may serve as a proxy for the reality of &#x2018;consumer
 behaviour&#x2019;) and analyses how participants actively engage into the
 task of becoming measuring instruments (of fragrances and of themselves). 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 321-337 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2010.506318 
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Author-Name: Hannah Knox 
Author-X-Name-First: Hannah 
Author-X-Name-Last: Knox 
Author-Name: Damian O'Doherty 
Author-X-Name-First: Damian 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Doherty 
Author-Name: Theo Vurdubakis 
Author-X-Name-First: Theo 
Author-X-Name-Last: Vurdubakis 
Author-Name: Chris Westrup 
Author-X-Name-First: Chris 
Author-X-Name-Last: Westrup 
Title: THE DEVIL AND CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT 
Abstract:
  The paper takes as its starting point the diffusion of ICT applications
 associated with so-called &#x2018;customer relationship management&#x2019;
 (CRM). CRM encourages organisations to shift their understanding of
 customers from an episodic and transaction-based perspective to one that
 emphasises continuous &#x2018;relationship management&#x2019;. CRM
 applications thus promise to deliver more, real-time accurate information
 about consumer habits and behaviours therefore allowing organisations to
 maximise their extraction of business value. This paper explores the ways
 in which such inscriptive technologies are not merely referential but also
 constitutive of contemporary re-presentations and ideals of the consuming
 subject. Focusing on what we might call the &#x2018;digital
 doubles&#x2019; of customer relationship management the authors explore
 how such inscriptive apparatuses simultaneously work to perform an image
 of the consuming subject, whilst also appearing endemically prone to
 instability and representational excess. Through an investigation of
 managerial imagery of computer enabled CRM, the paper explores the ways in
 which ambiguity and ambivalence continue to haunt advances in corporate
 technologies of surveillance and tele-control. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 339-359 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2010.506320 
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Author-Name: Maureen Molloy 
Author-X-Name-First: Maureen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Molloy 
Author-Name: Wendy Larner 
Author-X-Name-First: Wendy 
Author-X-Name-Last: Larner 
Title: WHO NEEDS CULTURAL INTERMEDIARIES INDEED? 
Abstract:
  This paper interrogates the concept of cultural intermediaries through an
 analysis of the New Zealand designer fashion industry, an industry
 composed of small networked enterprises which offer a wide range of
 educational, aesthetic and business services. The authors argue that
 &#x2018;cultural intermediaries&#x2019; can no longer be thought of in
 terms of particular occupations, spaces or events. Instead, cultural
 mediation is more productively understood as a function of the
 multiplicity of activities and relationships organised around the new
 economic spaces of the fashion industry, all of which are subject to the
 exigencies of capital accumulation. Moreover, the proliferating activities
 that comprise the New Zealand fashion industry are profoundly gendered,
 both in terms of women's numerical dominance and the gendered skills and
 attributes that these activities mobilise. These women are all producing,
 mediating and consuming fashion, making up the complex economic and
 cultural networks which comprise the fashion industry and also supporting
 the industry through their own fashion consumption and the creation of a
 broader fashionable sensibility. It is in this context that the authors
 ask &#x2018;Who needs cultural intermediaries indeed?&#x2019; 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 361-377 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 11 
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Author-Name: Robert G. Hollands 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert G. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hollands 
Title: ENGAGING AND ALTERNATIVE CULTURAL TOURISM? 
Abstract:
  This article develops the concept of &#x2018;alternative cultural
 tourism&#x2019; through an in-depth study of the Prague Fringe Festival
 (PFF). In doing so, it argues that existing approaches to cultural tourism
 often fail to differentiate between different forms of culture (i.e.
 alternative versus mainstream), whilst also interrogating the criteria by
 which festivals can be understood as examples of alternative cultural
 tourism. Utilising a combination of both quantitative and qualitative
 data, involving audiences, festival performers and workers/volunteers, it
 is asserted that the PFF brings together a diverse mix of cultures, and
 seeks to create a more participatory and engaging tourist experience.
 Additionally, its more egalitarian organising structure produces different
 kinds of work and social relations in the production of art and culture --
 particularly between various groups working within the festival, but also
 in the creation of different ideas about audience engagement, performer
 relations, and engagement with the local community (through the idea of
 the &#x2018;festival participant&#x2019;). The article concludes by
 briefly exploring the potential of alternative cultural tourism to provide
 more meaningful and sustainable models of urban cultural development. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 379-394 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 11 
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Author-X-Name-First: Paul 
Author-X-Name-Last: Langley 
Title: REVIEW ESSAY 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 395-402 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2010.506327 
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Author-Name: Alan Scott 
Author-X-Name-First: Alan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Scott 
Title: Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 403-405 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 3 
Year: 2010 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2010.506328 
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Title: EDITORS' INTRODUCTION 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 1-1 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 4 
Year: 2011 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2011.535327 
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Author-Name: Ann H. Kelly 
Author-X-Name-First: Ann H. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kelly 
Author-Name: P. Wenzel Geissler 
Author-X-Name-First: P. Wenzel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Geissler 
Title: INTRODUCTION 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 3-10 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 4 
Year: 2011 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2011.535329 
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Author-Name: Catherine M. Will 
Author-X-Name-First: Catherine M. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Will 
Title: MUTUAL BENEFIT, ADDED VALUE? 
Abstract:
	      The National Health Service (NHS) has recently been the focus
 of government efforts to retain pharmaceutical research in the UK. Efforts
 to foster new partnerships between healthcare providers and industry have
 been framed with suggestions that clinical trials can offer 'patient
 benefit' within the NHS, cutting across ethical and sociological concerns
 with the possible tension between doing research and offering care. This
 paper draws on ethnographic research to explore the sometimes awkward
 juxtapositions between trial protocols and everyday care, individual
 health and commercial profit, and thus the distribution of value produced
 through trials. While researchers appear to find the distinction between
 research and care useful, at least some of the time, both formal and
 informal strategies for living with this distinction may have the
 unintended consequence of making research appear supplementary to rather
 than simply different from clinical care.	    
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 11-26 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 4 
Year: 2011 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2011.535332 
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Author-Name: Ari Samsky 
Author-X-Name-First: Ari 
Author-X-Name-Last: Samsky 
Title: 'SINCE WE ARE TAKING THE DRUGS': 
Abstract:
	      This paper examines and compares conceptions of the place of
 labor, commodity, value, and gift in two pharmaceutical company-sponsored
 international drug donation programs. Drawing on ethnographic research
 done between 2006 and 2008, the paper tracks how medical-scientific
 architects of these donation programs (NGO and pharmaceutical executives,
 tropical medicine experts, Ministries of Health) understand the labor of
 the drug recipients, how they imagine community participation, and how
 they value their own participation in the program. The paper incorporates
 interviews with past and present pharmaceutical company employees,
 elaborating their understandings of the relationships and values created
 by the donations, and their obligations within the programs.
 Scientist-administrators involved with the program envision community
 participation as being joyful and self-interested, and they show great
 excitement and pride in the power of their donated drugs. In contrast,
 interviews with farmers and local health volunteers drawn from a research
 trip to the Morogoro region of Tanzania show the ambivalent, conflicted,
 and sometimes resentful understanding of labor involved with the drug
 donation programs, labor which arrives in the form of distribution tasks
 and hygienic strictures associated with free, powerful drugs. The local
 scene provides a critical counterpoint to positive imaginations of
 community ownership and participation in health interventions, and points
 to systemic misunderstandings within the reciprocal relationship between
 African drug recipients and the American and European
 scientist-administrators who design and direct these programs. 	 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 27-43 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 4 
Year: 2011 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2011.535334 
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Author-Name: P. W. Geissler 
Author-X-Name-First: P. W. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Geissler 
Title: 'TRANSPORT TO WHERE?' 
Abstract:
	      Based upon Kenyan ethnography, this article examines the gap
 between the bioethics aversion to value transfers in clinical trials, and
 research participants' and researchers' expectations of these. This
 article focuses upon so-called 'transport reimbursement' (TR): monetary
 payments to participants that are framed as mere refund of transport
 expenses, but which are of considerable value to recipients. The interest
 in this case lies not so much in the unsurprising gap between regulatory
 norms and poor study subjects' lives, but in the way in which this
 discrepancy between bioethical discourse and materialities of survival is
 silenced. In spite of the general awareness that TR indeed is about the
 material value of research, about value calculation, and expectations of
 return, it is not publicly discussed as such - unless ironically, in jest,
 or in private. This double-blindness around 'reimbursement' has provoked
 discussions among ethicists and anthropologists, some of which propose
 that the work that generates scientific value should be recognised as
 labour and participants, accordingly, paid. Here, this paper argues that
 such a re-vision of trial participation as work rather than as a gift for
 the public good, risks abrogating the possibility of 'the public' that is
 not only a precondition of public medical science, but also its potential
 product. The supposedly radical solution of tearing away the veils of
 misrecognition that 'free' gifting ideology lays upon the realities of
 free labour, though analytically plausible, fails to recognise the utopian
 openings within clinical trial transactions, that point beyond the present
 - towards larger forms of social association, and towards future
 alignments of scientific possibilities and human lives.	  
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 45-64 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 4 
Year: 2011 
Month: 2 
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Author-Name: Ann H. Kelly 
Author-X-Name-First: Ann H. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kelly 
Title: WILL HE BE THERE? 
Abstract:
	      This paper focuses on an unsettling example of experimental
 labour - the Human Landing Catch (HLC). The HLC is a cheap and reliable
 technique to produce data on mosquito densities in a defined area. It
 requires only a human volunteer to sit over night with his legs exposed, a
 headlamp to spot mosquitoes, and a rubber tube and plastic cup to catch
 them as they come to feed on him. The HLC formed the central
 methodological and operational strategy for a malaria control that took
 place in Dar es Salaam, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
 This paper analyses the epistemic and economic value of this experimental
 scenario by examining in detail the work it entails. In conceptualizing
 the different species of productivity associated with the HLC, of
 particular interest is the surprising fact that he is there. This paper
 argues that the interplay of mobility and immobility offers a way to
 rethink the value of research within interlocking circulations of capital,
 science, mosquitoes and men.	       
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 65-79 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 4 
Year: 2011 
Month: 2 
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Author-Name: Melinda Cooper 
Author-X-Name-First: Melinda 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cooper 
Title: TRIAL BY ACCIDENT 
Abstract:
	      The discipline of bioethics offers a romanticized version of
 its own history, too often assuming that the principles enshrined in
 successive bioethics conventions (autonomy, consent and freedom of
 contract) serve as ready-made analytic tools for investigating power
 relations in the clinic. This paper argues that the politics of clinical
 trials and human medical experimentation would be better understood as a
 function of the complex practices of power pertaining to the 'accident'.
 The modern experimental method was born in the seventeenth century when
 scholars began looking for ways to derive universal truths about nature
 from the methodological reproduction of unexpected events or accidents.
 The clinical trial, which was elaborated in the mid-twentieth century,
 refined this method, by making it possible, for the first time, to
 reproduce and standardize unexpected clinical events on a mass, industrial
 scale. This paper argues that the clinical trial needs to be understood
 within the larger complex of Taylorist interventions seeking to regulate
 accidental movement in the workplace. This evolution of productive methods
 is in turn enmeshed in the shift from the private regulation of accidents
 (tort law) to the social administration of risk by the welfare state. When
 placed within this perspective, the specificity of the mid-to-late
 twentieth-century clinic as a scene of production emerges in all its
 complexity - for while the randomized clinical trial is organized by the
 same regulation of movement and accident imposed on the industrial
 workplace, the risks borne by the 'human subject' have never been included
 within the portfolio of social risks to be administrated and redistributed
 by the welfare state.		
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 81-96 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 4 
Year: 2011 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2011.535374 
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Author-Name: Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan 
Author-X-Name-First: Morenike 
Author-X-Name-Last: Oluwatoyin Folayan 
Author-Name: Dan Allman 
Author-X-Name-First: Dan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Allman 
Title: Clinical Trials As An Industry And An Employer Of Labour 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 97-104 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 4 
Year: 2011 
Month: 2 
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Author-X-Name-First: Brian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Balmer 
Title: Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 105-108 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 4 
Year: 2011 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2011.544878 
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Author-Name: Fabian Muniesa 
Author-X-Name-First: Fabian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Muniesa 
Title: Javier Izquierdo and the methodology of reality 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 109-111 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 4 
Year: 2011 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2011.544881 
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Author-Name: Daniel Ashton 
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ashton 
Title: PATHWAYS TO CREATIVITY 
Abstract:
  Focusing on the &#x2018;talent pathways&#x2019; outlined in the 2008
 Department of Culture, Media and Sport <italic>Creative Britain</italic>
 report, this article explores how different forms of creative agency are
 positioned to make a &#x2018;contribution&#x2019; to the creative economy.
 Drawing on Paul du Gay's concept of personhood, case studies on digital
 gaming explore the formation of two forms of personhood -- creative
 consumers and creative workers. Specifically, these forms of creative
 agency are analysed in terms of their connections on the &#x2018;talent
 pathway&#x2019;, and the transitions that see creativity and talent as
 inherent in all individuals and in need of channelling and directing. The
 creative-consumer case study unpacks the digital games industry strategy
 of enrolling fan-creators within their commercial operations. This case
 study reveals the increasing importance of co-production for the creative
 economy, and the extent to which diverse cultural practices are
 facilitated and positioned. Higher education Games Design courses will
 then provide the case study for examining how the creative-consumer can be
 positioned to make a productive contribution to the creative economy as a
 worker. Within this context, the formation of fans/students into a
 creative worker or industry-ready worker is evident. Through tracing
 different forms of creative agency and how they are connected to make a
 contribution to the creative economy, this article explores the governance
 of creative agency and economic subjects. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 189-203 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 4 
Year: 2011 
Month: 5 
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Author-Name: Louise Amoore 
Author-X-Name-First: Louise 
Author-X-Name-Last: Amoore 
Author-Name: Marieke de Goede 
Author-X-Name-First: Marieke 
Author-X-Name-Last: de Goede 
Title: INTRODUCTION 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 3-8 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.640548 
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Author-Name: Alexandra Hall 
Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hall 
Author-Name: Jonathan Mendel 
Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mendel 
Title: THREATPRINTS, THREADS AND TRIGGERS 
Abstract:
	      The international 'data war' that is fought in the name of
 counter-terror is concerned with mobilising the uncertain future to
 intervene 'before the terrorist has been radicalised'. Within this
 project, the digital footprint has become increasingly significant as a
 security resource. At the international border, particularly, the traces
 of data that cannot help but be left behind by everyday consumption and
 travel activity are mobilised within 'smart' targeting programmes to act
 against threat ahead of time. Subject to analytics, rules-based targeting
 and risk-scoring, this data is believed to offer a fuller picture of the
 mobile subject than conventional identification information. This paper
 places the data footprint alongside the history of the conventional
 criminal 'print' within forensic science to examine the future-oriented
 modes of governing that are emerging within smart border programmes such
 as the UK's e-borders. The digital print has less in common with the
 criminal print as objective evidence of past events and more in common
 with early efforts in anthropometry and biometrics to diagnose a subject's
 proclivity ahead of time. In the context of contemporary border security,
 this is unleashing uneven and occluded governmental effects.	       
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 9-27 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 2 
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Author-Name: Josef Teboho Ansorge 
Author-X-Name-First: Josef Teboho 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ansorge 
Title: REGISTRY, PRINT, RESISTANCE 
Abstract:
	      This article is about technologies that arithmetize and
 data-manage the other and the foe. It undertakes a mini-genealogy of
 information technology used to identify and sort individuals. Information
 management technologies developed in libraries are identified as
 fundamental, yet overlooked, sources of a bio-political revolution. In
 particular, the library card registry and the smart number has led to a
 radicalization and standardization of the state's capacities to know
 individuals. This article is also about a curious North-South symbiosis,
 or 'boomerang effect', where technologies first used on the other in
 illegible, securitized situations are then transported back to the
 metropole where they are initially deployed to capture the internal other
 and then, ultimately, the entire population. Finally, this article is
 about the global war on terror and how 'knowing the enemy' is intimately
 connected to a whole host of data-mining techniques and statistical
 knowledges.	       
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 29-47 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.640553 
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Author-Name: Mara Wesseling 
Author-X-Name-First: Mara 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wesseling 
Author-Name: Marieke de Goede 
Author-X-Name-First: Marieke 
Author-X-Name-Last: de Goede 
Author-Name: Louise Amoore 
Author-X-Name-First: Louise 
Author-X-Name-Last: Amoore 
Title: DATA WARS BEYOND SURVEILLANCE 
Abstract:
	      This article examines the Terrorism Financing Tracking
 Programme (TFTP), or 'Swift affair,' as exemplary of what have been called
 'Data Wars' in this special issue. In the TFTP, access to data about
 global financial circulations was offered as a means to govern uncertain
 security futures. The article endeavours to open the 'black box' of the
 Swift programme, by showing <italic>how</italic> the Swift data were
 handled, accessed and analysed. We use the social science analogy of the
 black box as developed by Donald MacKenzie, but also because the datasets
 transferred from Swift to the US Treasury were in encrypted form, which
 literally came to be called a <italic>black box</italic>. In this paper,
 opening the black box has a dual meaning: both to reveal and reassemble
 the processes, procedures and analytical software tools of the TFTP, and
 to explicate a number of ethical, political and societal questions brought
 about by the programme. To open up the black box of this data war, then,
 is to push critique beyond the 'righting of the wrongs' (for example, to
 better protect data or to strengthen privacy), and to ask instead what
 such practices make of us and our world.	   
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 49-66 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 2 
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Author-Name: Luis Lobo-Guerrero 
Author-X-Name-First: Luis 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lobo-Guerrero 
Title: LLOYD'S AND THE MORAL ECONOMY OF INSURING AGAINST PIRACY 
Abstract:
	      In the context of heightened maritime piracy, the role of the
 maritime insurance industry is increasingly seen by governments as central
 to the management of this peril. What is not normally observed, however,
 is that the industry, while embracing piracy risks, actively seeks to
 transform the security environments under which issues such as piracy take
 place. In doing so, market entities like the Joint War Committee of the
 Lloyd's Market Association become important actors within a global
 security apparatus which normally escapes the attention of students of
 power relations. Employing the concept of moral economy proposed by
 Lorraine Daston, the effects of insuring against piracy are analysed to
 make explicit the micropractices of power through which insurers perform
 the markets of risk in which they operate. This article analyses the role
 of marine underwriters at the London market as 'silent' security
 professionals whose decisions have global effects.	     
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 67-83 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 2 
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Author-Name: Monica den Boer 
Author-X-Name-First: Monica 
Author-X-Name-Last: den Boer 
Author-Name: Jelle van Buuren 
Author-X-Name-First: Jelle 
Author-X-Name-Last: van Buuren 
Title: SECURITY CLOUDS 
Abstract:
	      Within the European Union (EU), several instruments have been
 created at local, national and international level to monitor the
 movements of persons, goods and systems. The political justification of
 this vast expansion of surveillance instruments is based on the supposed
 need for security actors to predict and prevent security voids. In this
 article, we argue that the emergence of security clouds - the spray of
 data on individuals that floats between accumulated data-systems and
 networked surveillance instruments - present a considerable challenge to
 the governance of surveillance. The formally pronounced objects of
 combating crime and terror can be conceptualized as emerging forms of
 governance through surveillance and therefore influence societies deeper
 than merely in the field of security governance. Data which are fused in
 the security clouds can be stored for different purposes by different
 actors, acquire new functionalities and technical applications. The
 responsibility for surveillance technologies reaches beyond the scope of
 traditional scrutiny mechanisms, including parliaments, judicial
 authorities and civilian oversight bodies. The European, national,
 vertical and horizontal legal arrangements for transparency, access and
 data protection lack coherence and consistency. This article advocates a
 professional security ethic on top of a consolidated legal framework.	    
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 85-103 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.640558 
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Author-Name: Anthony Amicelle 
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony 
Author-X-Name-Last: Amicelle 
Author-Name: Gilles Favarel-Garrigues 
Author-X-Name-First: Gilles 
Author-X-Name-Last: Favarel-Garrigues 
Title: FINANCIAL SURVEILLANCE 
Abstract:
	      While critical academic studies on financial surveillance
 blossom, they hardly pay attention to the critical capability of those who
 are involved in the implementation of anti-money-laundering/countering
 terrorist financing (AML/CTF) policy. In this paper the authors attempt
 precisely this analysis of existing mobilizations which contest the
 everyday implementation of AML/CTF standards. Which practices are at
 stake? Who are the actors involved in denunciation? Which argumentation is
 used? What are the normative positions from which actors raise criticism?
 Are denunciations shared by a wider public or do they remain
 sector-specific? This paper brings together empirical results from
 research conducted separately by the two authors on, respectively, the
 gradual institutionalization of the role of banks in anti-money-laundering
 efforts in France and Switzerland and European measures against terrorist
 financing.	     
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 105-124 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.640560 
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Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: Saunders 
Title: The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d'&Eacute;tat 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 125-130 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.640561 
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Author-Name: Chris Healy 
Author-X-Name-First: Chris 
Author-X-Name-Last: Healy 
Title: Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 131-134 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.640563 
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Author-Name: Mary Poovey 
Author-X-Name-First: Mary 
Author-X-Name-Last: Poovey 
Title: INTRODUCTION 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 139-146 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.660781 
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Author-Name: David Landreth 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: Landreth 
Title: CRISIS BEFORE ECONOMY 
Abstract:
  The financial experience of mid-sixteenth-century Englishmen and women
 was dominated by an inflation so sustained, so unprecedented, and so
 traumatic as to be known to modern historians as &#x2018;the price
 revolution&#x2019;. Contemporary writers addressing &#x2018;this dearth
 which in such plenty comes, contrary to his kind&#x2019;, recognized the
 inflation as a crisis disrupting received systems of value, one in which
 prices had somehow become detached from the cyclical variations of
 agricultural plenty and scarcity. But they did not express this crisis as
 we would, as an economic crisis, proper to the totality we know as
 &#x2018;the economy&#x2019;. Rather, the &#x2018;dearth&#x2019; was a
 crisis of the &#x2018;common-wealth&#x2019;, the political totality that
 inscribed material goods as continuous with social and even religious
 goods. For these writers, the crux between the normative administration of
 common-wealth and the disastrous aberration of &#x2018;dearth&#x2019; was
 the Crown's new policy of debasement of the silver coinage. The material
 alloy of brass in the sterling made visible the political corruption of
 the masters of policy, manifesting the close interdependence of material
 and political values in the making of the debased coin. The ideological
 freight of debasement and purification articulated these objects not only
 in the local, daily registers of getting and spending, nor only in the
 registers of fiscal policy, but into the sacral register of Reformation
 and Counter-Reformation. Together, these convergent discourses of
 debasement help to define the difference between the sixteenth-century
 experience of &#x2018;common-wealth&#x2019; and modern economic
 experience. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 147-163 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.660782 
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Author-Name: Juraj Kittler 
Author-X-Name-First: Juraj 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kittler 
Title: TOO BIG TO FAIL 
Abstract:
  In a rapid sequence of events in 1499--1500 the maritime Republic of
 Venice lost three of its four chief private banking institutions, labeled
 by the contemporary observer as the &#x2018;four columns of the
 temple&#x2019;. While economic historians have already analyzed the
 immediate causes of the crisis as well as its short-term impact on the
 Venetian economy, this study sees it from the perspective of the
 <italic>longue durée</italic>, as a surface manifestation of some deep
 historical trends that ultimately ushered in major structural shifts in
 the social fabric of the republic. It follows the gradual unfolding of the
 crisis through the eyes of contemporary Venetian chroniclers whose
 detailed accounts give the social and cultural historian one of the
 earliest opportunities to reconstruct the internal dynamics of a
 full-blown fiscal and economic crisis taking place in the midst of the
 public sphere of a society whose constitution already contained some
 important elements of democratic culture. The study points out the complex
 web of social and cultural tendencies that tied together the militaristic
 attitudes of the state with its overall fiscal policies, and their
 combined impact on the long-term social stability and political culture. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 165-178 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.660783 
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Author-Name: Jessica Lepler 
Author-X-Name-First: Jessica 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lepler 
Title: &#x2018;THE NEWS FLEW LIKE LIGHTNING&#x2019; 
Abstract:
  In March 1837, two ink-stained pages of processed cotton rags spread
 panic when they informed New Yorkers of the failure of several of the
 largest cotton factors in New Orleans. This article traces the pathways of
 these pieces of paper, the people who chose to send them, and the
 confidence-diminishing words they contained. The story of the spread of
 panic in the United States of America in 1837 provides a case study of how
 the cultural forces of confidence and communication contribute to
 financial crises. The article argues that attention to historical nuance
 reveals that economic events rely on personal, local, national, and
 international contexts that cannot be explained by quantitative research
 or theoretical models. In short, the essay advocates for a historical
 approach to the study of the economy and documents the power of two
 understudied concepts in economic history: context and culture. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 179-195 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.660784 
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Author-Name: Dwayne Winseck 
Author-X-Name-First: Dwayne 
Author-X-Name-Last: Winseck 
Title: SUBMARINE TELEGRAPHS, TELEGRAPH NEWS, AND THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS OF 1873 
Abstract:
  The development of submarine telegraph systems and telegraph news -- the
 global media of their time -- in the late-nineteenth century deserve study
 for many reasons, not least because they were front and centre in the
 global financial crisis of 1873 and fit the criteria used to define
 speculative bubbles remarkably well. The sharp leap in the amount of
 capital investment and the boom in submarine telegraph construction from
 1869 to 1875 are two indicators of this. The sharp rise in the share
 prices of submarine cable firms and their sky-high capitalization levels
 are others. Newspaper coverage of the industry also seemed to rise and
 fall in lock-step fashion with the fortunes of the industry. Ultimately,
 the main point of this paper is that the media's relationship to financial
 crises deserves far more scholarly attention than it has so far received. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 197-212 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.660790 
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Author-Name: Amin Samman 
Author-X-Name-First: Amin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Samman 
Title: THE 1930s AS BLACK MIRROR 
Abstract:
  Media coverage of the recent financial crisis has referred extensively to
 various past crises, and in particular to the events of the 1930s. This
 article suggests that the idea of the Great Depression has effectively
 come to function as a kind of historical &#x2018;black mirror&#x2019; -- a
 quasi-object within which conjuncture and historical representation
 interact to produce an image of capitalist history itself. Focusing on the
 journalistic output of four key financial publications, I trace how
 portrayals of the 1930s have evolved over the course of the crisis. I find
 that while the 1930s are frequently and consistently invoked in ways that
 purport to reveal the historicity of the crisis, these representations
 produce an oscillation between different visions of historical repetition,
 which in turn underpin competing interpretations of the crisis as it
 unfolds. In so doing, I argue, appeals to the 1930s have simultaneously
 served to conceal and disclose the constitutive relation of historical
 imagination to historical process -- a double move that has had the
 paradoxical effect of both securing and undermining the reproduction of
 finance capitalism as we have come to know it. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 213-229 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.660792 
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Author-Name: Taylor C. Nelms 
Author-X-Name-First: Taylor C. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Nelms 
Title: THE ZOMBIE BANK AND THE MAGIC OF FINANCE 
Abstract:
  This paper takes the appearance of the figure of the &#x2018;zombie
 bank&#x2019; during the recent financial crisis as a starting point to
 think about how to historicize crisis. A zombie bank is an
 undercapitalized financial institution that continues to operate due to
 the support extended to it by the government; it emerged in 2009 as a
 vivid representation of contemporary capitalism in crisis. By tracing the
 intertwined histories of zombies and representations of capitalism, I
 argue for the importance of historical persistence when considering
 anxieties about the &#x2018;magic&#x2019; of finance provoked by the
 recent crisis. Fears of zombie banks, I suggest, recapitulate capitalism's
 whitewashed origins in credit and in the Caribbean. The crisis, therefore,
 represents an opportunity not only to reflect on current engagements with
 capitalism through an investigation of the figure of the zombie bank, but
 also to interrogate our models of historical continuity. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 231-246 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.660793 
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Author-Name: Martha Poon 
Author-X-Name-First: Martha 
Author-X-Name-Last: Poon 
Author-Name: Robert Wosnitzer 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wosnitzer 
Title: REVIEW ESSAY 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 247-255 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 1 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.660272 
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Author-Name: Chris Clarke 
Author-X-Name-First: Chris 
Author-X-Name-Last: Clarke 
Title: FINANCIAL ENGINEERING, NOT ECONOMIC PHOTOGRAPHY 
Abstract:
  In recent years, significant studies of finance have explored, on the one
 hand, the ways in which a specific financial theory might act as a
 &#x2018;performative utterance&#x2019; which through its use makes itself
 true and, on the other hand, the ways in which discourses and practices of
 finance might act as continuous performatives that constitute key
 categories of finance and the financial subject. On first glance, the idea
 of self-actualising financial theory might seem closer to J. L. Austin's
 original conception of the performative utterance. However, in this
 article, I argue for the need to reclaim the Austinian heritage for the
 broader and more generic understanding of performative finance as well. In
 this sense, I suggest, a return to Austin reveals the importance of
 maintaining a focus not only on the potential performance of financial
 theory, but also those discourses and practices of finance that make up
 the deeper layers of performativity. I use questions about the role of
 financial engineering in the sub-prime crisis to illustrate that it is
 only through a conception of performative finance as self-actualising
 theories <italic>and</italic> as discourses and practices that the often
 obscured layers of financial engineering in society can be fully
 understood. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 261-278 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 1 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.674964 
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Author-Name: Donald MacKenzie 
Author-X-Name-First: Donald 
Author-X-Name-Last: MacKenzie 
Author-Name: Daniel Beunza 
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Beunza 
Author-Name: Yuval Millo 
Author-X-Name-First: Yuval 
Author-X-Name-Last: Millo 
Author-Name: Juan   Pablo Pardo-Guerra 
Author-X-Name-First: Juan   Pablo 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pardo-Guerra 
Title: DRILLING THROUGH THE ALLEGHENY MOUNTAINS 
Abstract:
  In 1999, Carruthers and Stinchcombe provided the classic discussion of
 &#x2018;the social structure of liquidity&#x2019;: the institutional
 arrangements that support markets in which &#x2018;exchange occurs easily
 and frequently&#x2019;. Our argument in this paper is that the material
 aspects of these arrangements -- and particularly the materiality of
 prices -- need far closer attention than they normally receive. We develop
 this argument by highlighting two features of new assemblages that have
 been created in financial markets since 1999. First, these assemblages
 give sharp economic significance to spatial location and to physical
 phenomena such as the speed of light (the physics of these assemblages is
 Einsteinian, not Newtonian, so to speak). Second, they have provoked
 fierce controversy focusing on ultra-fast &#x2018;high-frequency
 trading&#x2019;, controversy in which issues of materiality are interwoven
 intimately with questions of legitimacy, particularly of fairness. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 279-296 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.674963 
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Author-Name: Jason Glynos 
Author-X-Name-First: Jason 
Author-X-Name-Last: Glynos 
Author-Name: Robin Klimecki 
Author-X-Name-First: Robin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Klimecki 
Author-Name: Hugh Willmott 
Author-X-Name-First: Hugh 
Author-X-Name-Last: Willmott 
Title: COOLING OUT THE MARKS 
Abstract:
  Why has the financial crisis not led to more radical public contestation
 and political reforms? In investigating the muted response to the crisis
 so far, the paper highlights the significance of ideological fantasy for
 appreciating the interpenetration of economy and society. We interpret
 this muted response to the crisis in terms of a &#x2018;cooling
 out&#x2019; process (Goffman) underpinned by a restorative fantasmatic
 narrative. The &#x2018;enjoyment&#x2019; derived from scapegoating
 individual bankers has narrowed the debate and stifled political
 imagination and mobilization. By investigating a range of media and policy
 responses to the meltdown, we conclude that the pre-credit crunch ideology
 of &#x2018;no more boom and bust&#x2019; has been replaced by an equally
 ideological narrative that promises a re-normalization of processes of
 financialization. This allows for the preservation of key elements of
 neo-liberal capitalism as well as the marginalization of alternative
 projects. The paper shows how, exemplified by the establishment and
 operation of United Kingdom Financial Investments Ltd, the post-crisis
 ideology continues to shield financial markets from public scrutiny and
 intervention. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 297-320 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 1 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.675885 
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Author-Name: George Sanders 
Author-X-Name-First: George 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sanders 
Title: HELP FOR THE SOUL 
Abstract:
  This paper attempts to collapse the oft-reified demarcation between
 economistic ideologies and personal programs for self-improvement. In
 doing so, one can see the symbiotic relationship that exists between what
 are ostensibly distinct and separate social arenas. I argue that the
 porosity between discourses of self-improvement, religion, and capitalist
 expansion is achieved largely through techniques of &#x2018;pastoral
 power&#x2019;. Foucault conceptualized pastoral power to represent the
 circulation of productive micro-power among individuals. Pastoral power is
 especially effective in a neoliberal era marked by the retrenchment of the
 state apparatus in securing the good and welfare of the citizenry and the
 emphasis on the individual to secure her own happiness and wellbeing. By
 examining one specific case, the popular and influential Purpose-Driven
 Life program, one can see pastoral techniques at work: the valorization of
 highly individualistic subjects who are desirous of novelty and
 fulfillment; the tutelage of the good and charitable shepherd who is
 concerned with the salvation of each individual member of the flock; and
 the situational context that situates all of them. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 321-335 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.675884 
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Author-Name: John Vail 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Vail 
Author-Name: Robert G. Hollands 
Author-X-Name-First: Robert G. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hollands 
Title: CULTURAL WORK AND TRANSFORMATIVE ARTS 
Abstract:
  The model of cultural work undertaken by the Amber Film and Photography
 Collective represents a radical challenge to the insecure and
 de-politicised world of cultural work that has long been the norm within
 the arts. Our paper, which explores the collective's diverse forms of
 cultural work, including paid labour, collective labour, gift labour and
 creative labour, argues that cultural work can be imbued with moral
 commitments and egalitarian ideals. The Amber collective functioned as
 much like a social movement organisation or a social economy enterprise as
 a cultural group: it was dedicated to creating alternative cultural
 networks and a new material foundation for cultural work. We emphasise how
 these shifting forms and strategies of cultural work underpinned
 substantial transformations within the Amber group itself. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 337-353 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 3 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.676561 
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Author-Name: Ann-Christina Lange 
Author-X-Name-First: Ann-Christina 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lange 
Title: REVIEW ESSAY 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 355-360 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 1 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.677749 
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Author-Name: Melanie White 
Author-X-Name-First: Melanie 
Author-X-Name-Last: White 
Title: REVIEW ESSAY 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 361-367 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2011 
Month: 10 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.677748 
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Author-Name: Paul Langley 
Author-X-Name-First: Paul 
Author-X-Name-Last: Langley 
Author-Name: Andrew Leyshon 
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew 
Author-X-Name-Last: Leyshon 
Title: GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 369-373 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.703146 
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Author-Name: Fiona Allon 
Author-X-Name-First: Fiona 
Author-X-Name-Last: Allon 
Author-Name: Guy Redden 
Author-X-Name-First: Guy 
Author-X-Name-Last: Redden 
Title: THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS AND THE CULTURE OF CONTINUAL GROWTH 
Abstract:
  The proximate causes of the global financial crisis (GFC) have been
 widely attributed to &#x2018;financialisation&#x2019;. However, we argue
 that the global financial crisis had cultural conditions of possibility
 that were imbricated with economic factors in complex ways. The idea that
 the crisis was the function of independent financial forces that spread
 through society fails to consider cultural rationalities that constituted
 the citizen as someone enjoined to improve their lives through consumption
 and speculative personal investment. The message that continual economic
 growth was both possible and the grounds for personal growth was
 normalised in the public sphere, reinforced by political spruiking and
 pervasive lifestyle media. But do we have the disciplinary resources to
 take cultural factors in the crisis seriously? A greater attention to
 culture and materiality, including the cultures of finance and markets,
 does not mean simply regarding &#x2018;culture&#x2019; as the context in
 which markets take place: it involves examining the fashioning of
 financial identities and everyday consumption practices in arenas that are
 cultural as much as they are economic. This also includes addressing the
 complexities of financial subjects for whom the pursuit of life security
 and private wealth accumulation (through home ownership, property
 investment and equity withdrawal, for example) is increasingly dependent
 on debt and underpinned by greater levels of risk and insecurity. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 375-390 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.703143 
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Author-Name: Shaun French 
Author-X-Name-First: Shaun 
Author-X-Name-Last: French 
Author-Name: James Kneale 
Author-X-Name-First: James 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kneale 
Title: SPECULATING ON CARELESS LIVES 
Abstract:
  This paper is concerned with biofinancialisation; that is, with the ways
 in which contemporary processes of financialisation and biopolitics
 intermesh and interpolate. While the significance of the relation between
 the bios and circuits of finance has begun to be recognised,
 biofinancialisation remains little interrogated. In seeking to address
 this lacuna, the paper focuses on the recent transformation of the UK
 after-retirement market and, in particular, the invention of enhanced and
 impaired pension annuities. Enhanced annuity products like the
 &#x2018;smokers&#x2019; pension&#x2019; provide, we argue, a striking
 example of the ways in which biofinancialisation works to fashion new
 worlds for capitalist accumulation, in this case through the
 capitalisation of morbidity and of the residual vital capacities of life,
 and the ways in which novel forms of biofinancial subject and subjectivity
 are produced to populate such worlds -- to make them live. The paper
 concludes by identifying three political fracture points or fault lines in
 the enterprise to secure life biofinancially through the enhancing of
 annuities: first, the promise of reconciliation; second, the promise of
 autonomy and freedom; and, third, the promise of a good retirement. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 391-406 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.703619 
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Author-Name: Donncha Marron 
Author-X-Name-First: Donncha 
Author-X-Name-Last: Marron 
Title: PRODUCING OVER-INDEBTEDNESS 
Abstract:
  This paper sets out to show how, in recent years, governing authorities
 have responded to problematic personal debt through the emergent concept
 of &#x2018;over-indebtedness&#x2019;. As mainstream consumer credit has
 become progressively de-moralized, authoritative intervention now turns
 particular attention to problematizing the financial subject's freedom and
 autonomy, their ability to choose. The concept of over-indebtedness
 reveals that authorities acknowledge that the use of certain types of
 credit is essential for the pursuit and realization of individual consumer
 freedom. Nevertheless, it is also understood that certain risks
 potentially undermine that freedom by rendering credit consumption and
 other financial commitments unsustainable and un-repayable over the longer
 term. In response, authorities propose a range of responses to manage the
 risk of lost choice, including the promotion of individual financial
 capability and the implementation of market disclosure and responsible
 lending practices. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 407-421 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.703144 
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Author-Name: Joe Deville 
Author-X-Name-First: Joe 
Author-X-Name-Last: Deville 
Title: REGENERATING MARKET ATTACHMENTS 
Abstract:
  Drawing together insights from key figures in the collections industry
 and observation at one of the UK's largest debt purchasers, this paper
 opens up the socio-material mechanisms of &#x2018;market
 attachment&#x2019; through which, drawing on Franck Cochoy, the potential
 &#x2018;captation&#x2019; of the defaulting consumer credit debtor occurs.
 It begins by setting out the analytical deficits in the contemporary
 analysis of consumer debt collection practices, before tracing the
 industry's responses to the particular problematic of consumer
 collections. It focuses on the role played by the &#x2018;capture of
 affect&#x2019; in collections processes, building on existing work
 exploring socio-economic objects that may be described as
 &#x2018;non-representational&#x2019;. A richer understanding of the
 relationship between markets and the body is thus brought to Actor-Network
 Theory influenced studies of processes of &#x2018;economization&#x2019;.
 It follows the debtor's progress along collections
 &#x2018;trajectories&#x2019;, exploring different not necessarily
 compatible modes of captation being deployed by collectors attempting to
 enact defaulters as repayers, ranging from the quasi-therapeutic to the
 disciplinary. It concludes by examining the increasing role for
 performative forms of in vitro and in vivo experimentation being deployed
 in the collections process, through the use of econometric modelling
 techniques. Both the debtors' pasts and their actions as they move through
 the present are shown to provide the empirical grounding for a process of
 repeated affective &#x2018;testing&#x2019;, aimed at discovering -- and
 profiting from -- minute variations in debtor dispositions. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 423-439 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.703145 
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Author-Name: Joyce Goggin 
Author-X-Name-First: Joyce 
Author-X-Name-Last: Goggin 
Title: REGULATING (VIRTUAL) SUBJECTS 
Abstract:
  In this article the author examines a number of ways in which the real
 world economy is currently merging with practices that have been
 classically understood as belonging to the spheres of culture and play.
 The article discusses several areas in which the conceptual line between
 the supposedly rational technologies of finance, and the &#x2018;less
 serious&#x2019; or &#x2018;irrational&#x2019; sphere of culture, is fading
 as finance is progressively enlisted to serve the purposes of
 entertainment, including film, fiction, and computer games. In addressing
 areas such as these, where play is steadily entering into the realm of
 finance, and finance is becoming ever more ludic, the argument also
 focuses on various ways in which financialised subjects are currently
 being produced and regulated. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 441-456 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.702121 
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Author-Name: Sarah Hall 
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hall 
Author-Name: Lindsey Appleyard 
Author-X-Name-First: Lindsey 
Author-X-Name-Last: Appleyard 
Title: FINANCIAL BUSINESS EDUCATION 
Abstract:
  In this paper, we reveal the neglected role of business education in
 legitimizing and performing gendered discourses in financial services work
 in London's financial district. In particular, by combining research on
 gendered subjectivities in elite labour markets with Foucauldian-inspired
 cultural economy research on the processes of financial subjectification,
 we argue that business education played an important role in performing
 discourses of idealised investment banking subjects who embodied
 essentialised masculine qualities during the period of rapid financialized
 growth in the 2000s. We then examine the temporary fragility of these
 &#x2018;masters of the universe&#x2019; by exploring how the power of
 investment banking subjects was momentarily destabilised as the global
 financial crisis was scripted in public discourse as being caused in part
 by the dominance of hyper-masculine investment bankers. By focusing on the
 relationship between educational practices and the gendered nature of
 financial services work, our analysis responds to calls to develop a more
 politically engaged cultural economy of finance by raising normative
 questions concerning the financial subjectivities that could, or should,
 be called forth within the post-crisis international financial system. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 457-472 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.691894 
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Author-Name: Paul Langley 
Author-X-Name-First: Paul 
Author-X-Name-Last: Langley 
Author-Name: Adam Leaver 
Author-X-Name-First: Adam 
Author-X-Name-Last: Leaver 
Title: REMAKING RETIREMENT INVESTORS 
Abstract:
  Summoned up within the defined-contribution (DC) plans that now
 predominate in the UK and USA, the financial subject of the retirement
 investor is identified by behavioural economics as the crucial problem to
 be solved in present-day occupational pension provision. Interventions are
 being made that: promote individual participation in plans through
 auto-enrolment techniques; increase the rate at which individuals make
 tax-favoured payments into plans through contribution escalator schemes;
 and cater for the decision-making and risk management deficiencies of
 individuals by providing default option funds with in-built
 &#x2018;life-style&#x2019; and &#x2018;target-date&#x2019; investment
 strategies. After Deleuze and Foucault, we argue that this
 &#x2018;behavioural revolution&#x2019; is a rearticulation of the
 heterogeneous elements which, in relation, produce the dispositif
 (apparatus) of DC plans as a distributed form of agency that places the
 retirement investor at its centre. Behavioural economics is shown to
 continue the inherently incomplete remaking of retirement investors within
 DC plans, necessarily precarious financial subjects who face the highly
 uncertain prospect that returns on investment after fees will be
 sufficient to meet their expectations of security in old age. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 473-488 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.691893 
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Author-Name: Brett Neilson 
Author-X-Name-First: Brett 
Author-X-Name-Last: Neilson 
Title: Cultural Studies in the Future Tense 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 489-492 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 5 
Year: 2012 
Month: 1 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.686886 
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Author-Name: Peter Knight 
Author-X-Name-First: Peter 
Author-X-Name-Last: Knight 
Title: INTRODUCTION 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 2-12 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.745444 
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Author-Name: Michael Zakim 
Author-X-Name-First: Michael 
Author-X-Name-Last: Zakim 
Title: DESK DISEASES 
Abstract:
  In a capitalist epoch of separation, disintegration, analysis, and
 individualizing the social order had to be reconstituted. That order
 needed to base itself on the same fluid, individualistic values that drove
 the market. This essay argues that a group of new nervous disorders in the
 nineteenth century served that purpose. These &#x2018;desk
 diseases&#x2019; principally afflicted sedentary men -- merchants and
 their clerks, together with lawyers, industrialists, and students -- who
 were furthest removed from American traditions of household mutuality and
 &#x2018;hard work out of doors&#x2019; and most identified with the money
 economy. On one hand, the new diagnoses were directly attributed to the
 enervating effects of post-agrarian habits. On the other hand, they were
 not a reactionary protest against capital's promotion of ambition and
 self-making. Indeed, personal infirmities became the backdrop to equally
 adamant performances of personal recovery. These underscored the efficacy
 of individual sovereignty. Men of property proved to be chronically ill,
 their bodies far less immaculate -- and far more hysterical -- than has
 been presumed. Personal health consequently emerged as a political
 philosophy for the capitalist age, catapulting a new, self-ruling class to
 power. That class governed through a novel technique called physical
 education which strove to re-organize eating, sleeping, bathing, and
 exercising in order to arrest the dramatic deterioration of commercial
 lives. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 13-29 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.745443 
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Author-Name: Andrew Lawson 
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lawson 
Title: AN EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF THE BUSINESS CYCLE 
Abstract:
  <title>Abstract</title> This article explores the homology between states
 of affect as represented in literary texts by Emerson, Poe, and Alcott,
 and the stages of the business cycle of 1832--1842. It argues that
 recurrent cycles of mania, panic, and depression served to habituate
 Americans to the business cycle and to naturalize market forces. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 30-44 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.745445 
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Author-Name: Peter Knight 
Author-X-Name-First: Peter 
Author-X-Name-Last: Knight 
Title: READING THE TICKER TAPE IN THE LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN MARKET 
Abstract:
  This article analyses popular accounts of financial innovations such as
 the stock ticker in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America.
 Recent social studies of finance (e.g. Preda 2009) have drawn attention to
 the socio-technical performative agency of such new modes of disseminating
 economic knowledge that do not merely provide a more accurate
 representation of &#x2018;the market&#x2019; as a coherent entity but in
 fact help create it. However, where Preda focuses more on the modes of
 rational calculability and the mechanisation of trust that were encouraged
 by the numerical abstractions of the ticker tape and subsequent charts of
 the fledgling technical analysts, this article discovers a residual
 attraction to rhetorical forms that humanized the impersonality of the
 financial markets, but which, in so doing, were more in tune with occult
 than modern understandings of finance. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 45-62 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.745439 
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Author-Name: Alissa G. Karl 
Author-X-Name-First: Alissa G. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Karl 
Title: &#x2018;BANK TALK,&#x2019; PERFORMATIVITY AND FINANCIAL MARKETS 
Abstract:
  This essay posits the ontology and tendencies of financial markets as
 akin to those of fiction -- as neither actual nor false, but (re)affirmed
 in each instance through re-citation and interpretation. To do this, the
 paper analyzes the generic development of the Federal Open Market
 Committee (FOMC) statements issued by the United States Federal Reserve
 since 1994 to understand the interpretive acts and the presumptions about
 markets that these statements iterate. The essay tracks how the diction,
 form, and circulation of FOMC statements cultivate the causal logic by
 which financial markets are purportedly organized, and also considers the
 iterability of the statement as a critique of that causal logic itself. In
 so doing, the essay appeals to the Butlerian version of performativity
 that is well known in the humanities and uses it to probe the methods and
 assumptions of the field of performative economics. This methodological
 intervention demonstrates the crucial insight into matters of
 citationality and iterability that Butlerian performativity affords, and
 implies much for an understanding of the ficitonality as well as the
 political standing of financial markets. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 63-77 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.745441 
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Author-Name: Annie McClanahan 
Author-X-Name-First: Annie 
Author-X-Name-Last: McClanahan 
Title: INVESTING IN THE FUTURE 
Abstract:
  This essay explores not the imaginative fictions that represent or
 respond to the financial economy but the fictions produced by
 financialisation, the historical ideologies that have underwritten a newly
 financialised economy in the post-1973 epoch. It connects recent popular
 discourses about the future to transformations in the economy, arguing
 that the adjacent ideologies of &#x2018;the end of history&#x2019; and
 &#x2018;investment in the future&#x2019; emerge, respectively, out of the
 &#x2018;new economy&#x2019; of immaterial labour and the deferred
 temporality of financial speculation. It further suggests that certain of
 these ideological fictions also haunt explicitly critical accounts of the
 period. The fiction of end-of-history abundance appears as a historical
 fact in post-marxist theories of &#x2018;immaterial labour&#x2019;, while
 an almost messianic account of finance capital appears in post-
 structuralist theories of financialisation. The ideas of history that have
 come to dominance since the 1980s are not only deeply rooted in the
 economy but have also blocked our access to actual economic history. This
 essay thus concludes with a reading of Marx's term &#x2018;fictitious
 capital&#x2019;, locating in it a reminder about the necessity of critical
 historical materialism, even in an age of ostensibly
 &#x2018;immaterial&#x2019; value. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 78-93 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.745442 
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Author-Name: Paul Crosthwaite 
Author-X-Name-First: Paul 
Author-X-Name-Last: Crosthwaite 
Title: ANIMALITY AND IDEOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC DISCOURSE 
Abstract:
  This article is an attempt to classify the creature known as <italic>Homo
 economicus</italic>. Despite its name, <italic>Homo economicus</italic>'
 line of descent through classical and neoclassical economics indicates
 that it is barely an evolutionary relative of <italic>Homo
 sapiens</italic> at all -- that, in fact, it has been traditionally
 understood less as a living organism than as a machine. Under the
 pressures of an increasingly hostile intellectual environment, however,
 <italic>Homo economicus</italic> is undergoing, if not extinction, then a
 strange mutation. This mutation once again bypasses the human, at least as
 conventionally understood: it is a metamorphosis from machine to animal,
 evident in fields ranging from a resurgent Keynesianism to behavioural
 finance to &#x2018;neuroeconomics&#x2019; to theories of &#x2018;adaptive
 markets&#x2019;, and also registered in a number of prominent contemporary
 fictional narratives concerned with financial markets. While this
 &#x2018;animal turn&#x2019; is to be welcomed for the challenge it poses
 to complacent claims for markets' infallible rationality and efficiency,
 as well as for the weight it (albeit unknowingly) lends to attempts in the
 field of animal studies to break down artificial species boundaries, it is
 nonetheless liable to critique for its tendency to re-inscribe, not merely
 normalized, but in a very literal sense <italic>naturalized</italic>,
 understandings of historically contingent, ideologically determined forms
 of economic behaviour. 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 94-109 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.745440 
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Author-Name: William Davies 
Author-X-Name-First: William 
Author-X-Name-Last: Davies 
Title: BOOK REVIEW 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 110-112 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.691360 
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Author-Name: Tim Butler 
Author-X-Name-First: Tim 
Author-X-Name-Last: Butler 
Title: REVIEW ESSAY 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 113-118 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.684697 
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Author-Name: Martin Parker 
Author-X-Name-First: Martin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Parker 
Title: ART AS WORK 
Abstract:
	      This paper uses empirical work on a piece of performance art
 to think through the relation between &#x2018;work&#x2019; and
 &#x2018;art&#x2019;, and by implication, &#x2018;culture&#x2019; and
 &#x2018;economy&#x2019;. Beginning with the idea that the intelligibility
 of both is produced through similar forms of rule following and rule
 breaking, I suggest that this throws into question the empirical and
 historical novelty of the idea of the creative worker. As
 institutionalists have argued, the work of art is produced through its
 relation to various organizations, just as work organizations rely on
 creative rule bending and elaboration. Examples of contemporary art are
 enrolled in the argument along the way in order to suggest that we can
 find many insights into the nature of work, culture and economy in
 comparing the practices of artists with the practices of workers.	    
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 120-136 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.702122 
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Author-Name: Jennifer Pybus 
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pybus 
Title: SOCIAL NETWORKS AND CULTURAL WORKERS 
Abstract:
	      The cultural worker is a key figure in social networks,
 producing the vast amounts of data which are integral to the profits sites
 of sites such as Facebook. This paper develops a conceptual framework that
 accounts for the contradictory ways in which user-generated data both
 extends networks of connectivity, while simultaneously renders subjects
 more productive within our information economy. By theorizing the digital
 profile as a personal archive I want to account for the ways in which
 digital archives of users on-line straddle the fine line between extension
 and domination, or rather between a desire for connectivity and the
 accumulation of surplus value based on the immaterial labour of those who
 frequent these socially networked spaces. The archive as a conceptual
 framework offers a theoretical paradigm to grasp the impact social media
 is having on the everyday lived experiences of users participate on-line
 and who are ultimately rendered productive as a very specific
 manifestation of the cultural worker -- the prosumer.		
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 137-152 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.742850 
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Author-Name: Christina Hughes 
Author-X-Name-First: Christina 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hughes 
Title: I DRAW THE LINE AT STRINGING PEARLS 
Abstract:
	      This paper contributes to developing understandings of strong
 commitments to particular forms of work and how they are sustained against
 bleak, unstable, exploitative and self-exploitative conditions. It
 approaches this duality between feeling and structure within the temporal
 and relational qualities of hope as they are experienced by women
 jewellery designer-makers in Birmingham Jewellery Quarter. The paper
 locates these hopes in the Craftswoman's Imperative, a symbolic good and
 material practice that is concerned with upholding objective values of the
 truth and beauty of artisanship. The paper details how the hopes of these
 designer-makers become aligned with those of policy-actors for a
 reinvigoration of British craftsmanship. It then explores how hope is
 upheld, and challenged, through sensory experiences of engaging with the
 material world. Finally, the paper explores these designer-makers&#x2019;
 optimistic practices for achieving the value of the Craftswoman's
 Imperative.	      
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 153-167 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.741531 
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Author-Name: Barbara Jenkins 
Author-X-Name-First: Barbara 
Author-X-Name-Last: Jenkins 
Title: EROTIC ECONOMICS 
Abstract:
	      Since their inception, capitalist markets have been
 associated with a wide variety of psychological disorders. Freud argued
 that many of these neuroses were the result of repressing
 <italic>Eros</italic>, or the pleasure principle, in the interest of
 building a broader society or &#x2018;civilization&#x2019;. Drawing on the
 work of the Italian autonomist Franco Berardi and the psychology of Carl
 Jung, I argue that <italic>Eros</italic>, defined more broadly as
 relatedness, is an integral part of capitalist markets that has been
 consistently devalued and repressed both in economic discourse and
 economic policy. Identified with the &#x2018;feminine&#x2019; behaviours
 of hysteria, emotion and irrationality, this aspect of capitalist markets
 was moralized throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth century and the
 market was re-conceived as masculine. As both Berardi and Keynes have
 noted, however, we have paid a price for this absorption of
 <italic>Eros</italic> by the Logos of the market. By recuperating the
 erotic aspects of capitalism, we can build a more embodied, relational
 concept of the market. 	 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 168-183 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.742851 
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Author-Name: Lynne Pettinger 
Author-X-Name-First: Lynne 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pettinger 
Title: MARKET MORALITIES IN THE FIELD OF COMMERCIAL SEX 
Abstract:
	      The website &#x2018;Punternet&#x2019; contains customer
 service reviews (&#x2018;field reports&#x2019;) of commercial sex
 encounters in the UK's indoor sex market. Treating Punternet as a
 calculative device shows how ordinary understandings of morality underpin
 consumer markets, as field reports qualify commercial sex to produce
 understandings of &#x2018;good value&#x2019;. The varied, messy and
 sometimes contradictory understandings of value, values, worth and
 goodness that are present in the calculative device of Punternet reveal
 the complex ways in which market actions are made moral by consumers.
 &#x2018;Value&#x2019; in the market for sex is a moral judgement made by
 male authors whose understandings of themselves as deserving customers
 derives from the stories they tell of good and bad service providers.
 Although the moral status of prostitution is contested by many, Punternet
 reports lay claim to it being a legitimate consumer activity, with
 customers themselves vulnerable to being denied &#x2018;value for
 money&#x2019;. The good worker is seen as providing value for money by
 being professional, committed to pleasing the customer and appearing to
 enjoy her job. 	 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 184-199 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.740418 
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Author-Name: Ryan Gillespie 
Author-X-Name-First: Ryan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gillespie 
Title: FROM CIRCULATION TO ASYMMETRICAL FLOW 
Abstract:
	      This essay argues for the shortcomings of the
 circulation-perspectives of critical economics in the discursive formation
 of contemporary finance-led global capitalism on grounds that it implies
 the same neoclassical efficiency-equilibrium assumption it was meant to
 counter. A new theoretical apparatus, of asymmetrical flow, predicated on
 the asymmetries of time-space and information, is offered. The necessity
 of a new theory is illustrated with reference to the global financial
 crisis beginning in 2008 and the S.E.C. suit of Goldman Sachs and, using
 the question &#x2018;where did all the money go?&#x2019; as a touchstone
 of inquiry, concluding that the question is largely unanswerable due to
 communicative asymmetries arising from the act of speculation. 	 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 200-216 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.686887 
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Author-Name: Kay Anderson 
Author-X-Name-First: Kay 
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson 
Title: Milk, Modernity and the Making of the Human 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 217-219 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.697441 
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Author-Name: Claes-Fredrik Helgesson 
Author-X-Name-First: Claes-Fredrik 
Author-X-Name-Last: Helgesson 
Title: New colours and new weight to the study of marketing 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 220-225 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.684696 
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Author-Name: John Law 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Law 
Author-Name: Evelyn Ruppert 
Author-X-Name-First: Evelyn 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruppert 
Title: THE SOCIAL LIFE OF METHODS: Devices 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 229-240 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.812042 
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Author-Name: Matei Candea 
Author-X-Name-First: Matei 
Author-X-Name-Last: Candea 
Title: THE FIELDSITE AS DEVICE 
Abstract:
	      This paper explores fieldsites as devices, in the sense,
 given in the introduction to this special issue, of 'patterned
 teleological arrangements'. Drawing on a discussion of my own ethnographic
 fieldwork with field behavioral ecologists, the article seeks to parse the
 insights of two literatures, namely the emergent interest in scientific
 fieldwork in STS and history of science, and the long-standing discussion
 of ethnographic fieldwork within sociocultural anthropology. Insofar as my
 ethnographic fieldsite is also to their biological fieldsite, this not
 just a straight 'comparison' of methodological devices, but also an
 account of how two differently configured devices come to interface, and
 where and to what extent they differ.		
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 241-258 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.754366 
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Author-Name: Vicky Singleton 
Author-X-Name-First: Vicky 
Author-X-Name-Last: Singleton 
Author-Name: John Law 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Law 
Title: DEVICES AS RITUALS 
Abstract:
	      In this paper we seek to expand the sense of what a device
 is. We draw from ethnography about contemporary farming practices, and in
 particular beef cattle farming, as we explore the craft of farming. Our
 concern with practices on the farm considers, in particular, the Cattle
 Tracing System (CTS) of the British Cattle Movement Service (BCMS). The
 CTS is important - nay financially crucial - to everyone who farms cattle
 in Britain, and it looks and feels like a metaphorical device. The CTS is
 systematic and it rests on an elaborate IT database, so it is mechanical
 or electronic in parts and hence it is machine-like. But are devices
 necessarily machine-like? We suggest that devices don't have to look or be
 that way. The Cattle Tracing System is a farming device that divides,
 separates, and classifies; it's a contrivance that is purposeful. But we
 also suggest that the work of the farmer in caring for cattle can also be
 imagined as a device or as a set of devices. In this expanded sense we
 treat devices as practices of purposive crafting, and our core question
 is: how is this achieved? One answer is that it depends on mechanisms of
 repetition. That is, we argue that realities are generated in patterned
 and repeated practices of purposive crafting. Finally and crucially we
 argue that while some reality-enacting practices seek to colonise and
 displace alternative realities, others such as lyricism and refrains work
 to evade capture and enact alternative realities.	    
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 259-277 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.754365 
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Author-Name: Javier Lezaun 
Author-X-Name-First: Javier 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lezaun 
Author-Name: Fabian Muniesa 
Author-X-Name-First: Fabian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Muniesa 
Author-Name: Signe Vikkelsø 
Author-X-Name-First: Signe 
Author-X-Name-Last: Vikkelsø 
Title: PROVOCATIVE CONTAINMENT AND THE DRIFT OF SOCIAL-SCIENTIFIC REALISM 
Abstract:
	      The post-World War II period gave rise to a large number of
 social-scientific techniques for investigating and intervening in social
 reality. A particular group of these, exemplified here by the experiments
 of Moreno, Lewin, Bion, Milgram and Zimbardo, worked by establishing
 suggestive micro-realities in which participants were exposed to, or
 experimented with, selected 'social problems'. We investigate the nature
 of these techniques - being simultaneously highly artificial and
 disturbingly realistic - and propose the notion of 'provocative
 containment' to understand their operation and effects. We point to five
 ingredients of their characteristic mode of operation - expressionism,
 incitement, trauma, distillation and technology - and argue that they do
 not serve to represent a simplified version of social reality, but rather
 to 'realize' particular forms of social life intrinsic to the medium of
 provocative containment.	   
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 278-293 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.739972 
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Author-Name: Penny Harvey 
Author-X-Name-First: Penny 
Author-X-Name-Last: Harvey 
Author-Name: Madeleine Reeves 
Author-X-Name-First: Madeleine 
Author-X-Name-Last: Reeves 
Author-Name: Evelyn Ruppert 
Author-X-Name-First: Evelyn 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruppert 
Title: ANTICIPATING FAILURE 
Abstract:
	      The article explores the politics of making worlds legible,
 transparent and actionable through devices that governments and
 international organisations mobilise in the quest to achieve moral
 certainty about their activities and decisions. Through an analysis of
 three distinct examples, we examine the effects of such attempts to open
 things up in the name of the public good: the performance metrics that are
 part of the UK government's 'Transparency Agenda'; 'conflict mapping' as
 part of Kyrgyzstan's internationally sponsored programmes of Preventive
 Development; and the procedures of Peru's National System of Public
 Investment (SNIP) through which public investments are regulated. We
 explore these three as instances of what we call 'transparency devices'.
 It is to past moral failures - of wrongdoing, conflict or corruption -
 that these devices react and consequently it is the anticipation of future
 moral failings towards which they are then oriented. Each device does so
 by establishing matters of fact as moral certainties through technical
 settlements carried out in 'public'. But in their enactment of social
 realities, such devices are also generative of what we call collateral
 effects and affects. First, technical settlements require establishing
 what is to be included/excluded but such stabilisations are only fleeting,
 always and already partial, and provisional. As such rather than
 alleviating uncertainty they come to amplify it. Furthermore, while they
 can be understood as neoliberal techniques of producing active, rational
 witnessing subjects who take responsibility for ensuring moral futures,
 they are also generative of affective dispositions of suspicion and
 hypervigilance; fostering subjects with a greater awareness of that which
 is yet to be revealed. We suggest that they should not be considered
 weaknesses, but rather that uncertainty and hypervigilant responsibilised
 subjects call for the continuation of more of the same and thus are a
 source of the very authority and legitimacy of transparency devices.	    
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 294-312 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.739973 
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Author-Name: Noortje Marres 
Author-X-Name-First: Noortje 
Author-X-Name-Last: Marres 
Author-Name: Esther Weltevrede 
Author-X-Name-First: Esther 
Author-X-Name-Last: Weltevrede 
Title: SCRAPING THE SOCIAL? 
Abstract:
	      This paper investigates the device of scraping, a technique
 for the automated capture of online data, and its application in social
 research. We ask how this 'medium-specific' technique for data collection
 may be rendered analytically productive for social research. We argue
 that, as a technique that is currently being <italic>imported</italic>
 into social research, scraping has the capacity to re-structure research
 in at least two ways. Firstly, as a technique that is not native to social
 research, scraping risks introducing 'alien' analytic assumptions such as
 a pre-occupation with freshness. Secondly, to scrape is to risk importing
 into our inquiry categories that are prevalent in the social practices and
 devices enabled by online media: scraping makes available <italic>already
 formatted</italic> data for social research. Scraped data, and online
 social data more generally, tend to come with analytics already built in.
 The pre-ordered nature of captured online data is often approached as a
 'problem', but we propose it may be turned into a virtue, insofar as data
 formats that have currency in the practices under scrutiny may serve as a
 source of social data themselves. Scraping, we propose, makes it possible
 to render traffic between the object and process of social research
 analytically productive. It enables a form of 'live' social research, in
 which the formats and life cycles of online data may lend structure to the
 analytic objects and findings of social research. We demonstrate this
 point in an exercise of online issue profiling, and more particularly, by
 relying on Twitter and Google to track the issues of 'austerity' and
 'crisis' over time. Here we distinguish between two forms of real-time
 research, those dedicated to monitoring <italic>live</italic> content
 (which terms are current?) and those concerned with analysing the
 <italic>liveliness</italic> of issues (which topics are happening?).	    
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 313-335 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.772070 
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Author-Name: Ismail Erturk 
Author-X-Name-First: Ismail 
Author-X-Name-Last: Erturk 
Author-Name: Julie Froud 
Author-X-Name-First: Julie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Froud 
Author-Name: Sukhdev Johal 
Author-X-Name-First: Sukhdev 
Author-X-Name-Last: Johal 
Author-Name: Adam Leaver 
Author-X-Name-First: Adam 
Author-X-Name-Last: Leaver 
Author-Name: Karel Williams 
Author-X-Name-First: Karel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams 
Title: (HOW) DO DEVICES MATTER IN FINANCE? 
Abstract:
	      This article distinguishes between different concepts of
 device. In traditional English usage, as in the Foucauldian or Deleuzian
 concept, devices exist in a context of power, opportunism and force.
 Through argument and evidence about hedge funds and financial innovation,
 we argue that this kind of non-Callonian device is ubiquitous in finance
 so that the idea of device can be part of a much more political analysis
 of the present-day capitalism. Capitalist devices are not neutral tools
 with fixed uses and predictable results because they vary in purpose and
 effects from one context to another. This is the point Deleuze makes in
 the context of nomadic war machine when he explains how a tool can be a
 weapon; and it is an issue in the present-day capitalism where we can ask
 whether politically strong financial elite have turned tools like
 short-selling into weapons that may harm other stakeholders in the
 economy. This article also connects devices in finance and the process of
 innovation with the desires of financial elites who enrich themselves and
 are negligent about the costly consequences of their bricolage for
 society. In this political frame, financial devices are products of a
 banking system that works for itself generating fees and bonuses and
 incidentally recreating pre-1914 levels of income inequality of historic
 proportions. This goes unchallenged because a democratic deficit allows
 financial elites to socialise losses and privatise gains.	    
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 336-352 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.802987 
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Author-Name: Brice Laurent 
Author-X-Name-First: Brice 
Author-X-Name-Last: Laurent 
Title: An experimental democratic theory? 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 353-359 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.808161 
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Author-Name: Claes-Fredrik Helgesson 
Author-X-Name-First: Claes-Fredrik 
Author-X-Name-Last: Helgesson 
Author-Name: Hans Kjellberg 
Author-X-Name-First: Hans 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kjellberg 
Title: Introduction: Values and Valuations in Market Practice 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 361-369 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.838187 
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Author-Name: Pascale Trompette 
Author-X-Name-First: Pascale 
Author-X-Name-Last: Trompette 
Title: The Politics of Value in French Funeral Arrangements 
Abstract:
 This paper draws upon the history of the funeral market over two centuries
 to examine three major devices which have played a central role in the
 funeral economy, both in terms of defining the nature of the 'goods' and
 their attendant value but also in regulating the relations between the
 Pompes Funèbres and the other institutional actors involved. It highlights
 the ways in which these devices provide a 'politics of value' performing
 the articulation between the formatting of economic value and the pursuit
 of political concerns. First, observing the constitutional phase of the
 private industry, it examines the 'system of the classes' as a central
 device of managing dissonance between conflicting interests. Then, a
 historical jump leads us to half way through the twentieth century to the
 market infrastructure formed by the management of 'care for the deceased'.
 As a third point, the exponential development of death insurance in recent
 years appears as an expression of rationalization of funeral arrangement.
 The analysis of the market devices will highlight an essential property,
 that is, the incorporation of a 'calculation formula' which set up both
 the profit sharing and the handling of moral and political issues.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 370-385 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.827990 
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Author-Name: Philip Roscoe 
Author-X-Name-First: Philip 
Author-X-Name-Last: Roscoe 
Title: On the Possibility of Organ Markets and the Performativity of Economics 
Abstract:
 Callon's (1998) 'performativity thesis' encourages us to consider how the
 boundaries of the economy are negotiated. This paper explores one such
 discussion: the contributions of economics to the debates over the
 introduction of markets for transplant organs. The paper pays particular
 attention to the normative aspects of economic valuation. It examines the
 philosophical antecedents of economic contributions to the debate, notes
 the rhetorical and linguistic power of economic calculation and then
 focuses on three distinct sets of calculations concerning the value of a
 transplant kidney: a contingent valuation calculation, a risk-premia based
 calculation, and a cost-efficiency simulation. In each case, it shows that
 economic facts, once created, may travel freely through normative debates
 and claim moral force. The technical process of economic modelling is
 therefore seen to be a crucial aspect of the economisation of this area,
 and of economic performativity more generally.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 386-401 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.772069 
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Author-Name: Jean-Samuel Beuscart 
Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Samuel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Beuscart 
Author-Name: Kevin Mellet 
Author-X-Name-First: Kevin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mellet 
Title: Competing Quality Conventions in the French Online Display Advertising Market 
Abstract:
 This paper builds upon an empirical study of suppliers of online
 advertising space in France in order to highlight the plurality of quality
 conventions that organize the activity of market intermediaries. We show
 that the market is organized around two different quality conventions, the
 'media' convention and the 'direct-response' convention, each equipped
 with specific efficiency indicators, pricing methods and selling channels.
 Then we focus on the growing conflict of territory between the two
 conventions; we analyse the balance of power between the conventions and
 the arenas where they compete. We observe that the collective action of
 the defenders of the traditional world is not (yet) sufficient to contain
 the pervasiveness of the indicators and metrics from the world of
 direct-response.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 402-418 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.772068 
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Author-Name: Lotta Björklund Larsen 
Author-X-Name-First: Lotta Björklund 
Author-X-Name-Last: Larsen 
Title: The Making of a 'Good Deal' 
Abstract:
 Economic rationality and reciprocal help are values that are often posed
 as contradictory within exchanges. However, there are instances when these
 values work in tandem, such as when justifying informal purchases of work,
 svart arbete, in contemporary Sweden. Svart arbete are omnipresent
 exchanges in Swedish society, and there are many reasons for performing
 them. On the one hand, a good deal is part of everyday social life when
 people help each other. On the other hand, a good deal also reinforces
 views that economic rationalities are values that do not exclusively
 adhere to formal markets. This article focuses on the values that
 construct the 'good deal' when getting your car fixed informally. These
 overlapping and somewhat contradictory values in theory, but commonplace
 in practice, illustrate how notions of reciprocity and economic
 calculations interweave and are difficult to entangle one from the other.
 The 'good deal' thus concerns how illegal, yet licit purchases of services
 are made acceptable when posing them as cheap and simple transactions that
 simultaneously invoke a realm of closer relations.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 419-433 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.827989 
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Author-Name: Karin Wagner 
Author-X-Name-First: Karin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wagner 
Title: The Package as an Actor in Organic Shops 
Abstract:
 This article examines the different and often overlooked roles that
 packages can perform in specialised organic shops. The paper reports on
 case studies of three organic shops of different types: a pioneering
 alternative organic shop, a small shop run by a big cooperative company
 and a recently started organic shop with a modern style, all located in
 Sweden. In addition to interviews, the paper draws on material produced
 through visual analysis and participant observation. Packages were found
 to take four main roles: the repetitive package, the unobtrusive package,
 the unfamiliar package and the returnable package. These different roles
 are approached in terms of agency and as viewing the package as playing a
 key part in the actor-networks of organic food.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 434-452 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 11 
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Author-Name: Leon Wansleben 
Author-X-Name-First: Leon 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wansleben 
Title: 'Dreaming with BRICs' 
Abstract:
 Intertwinements of economic practices with economic knowledge have been of
 particular interest for sociologists and cultural anthropologists during
 recent years. This article discusses a particular case of such
 intertwinements: in 2001, Goldman Sachs economists invented the acronym
 'BRIC' for grouping together the largest emerging economies - Brazil,
 Russia, India and China. The economists projected that over the course of
 50 years, the BRICs would become the new core of the world economy. This
 article interprets the BRICs concept as an innovation in the
 classificatory regimes of finance. These classificatory regimes are
 understood as persistent cultural constructs. In the domain of
 international finance, classifications have traditionally been organized
 according to the distinction of developed and developing economies, with
 assumptions regarding return expectations and risks attached to this
 distinction. The BRICs concept alters these classificatory regimes and
 re-describes a selective group of emerging markets as solid, long-term
 investment destinations. In order to establish this innovation, the
 Goldman Sachs economists draw on calculative framings, narrative
 strategies and metaphorical language. As evidenced by descriptive
 statistics of portfolio flows, a preliminary analysis of investment
 discourses and of changes in the emerging market funds industry, Goldman
 Sachs' expertise on the BRICs indeed seems to have contributed to the
 emergence of a new cultural circuit of capital of post-emerging market
 investments to developing economies.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 453-471 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.756826 
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Author-Name: Olga Sezneva 
Author-X-Name-First: Olga 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sezneva 
Title: Re-thinking Copyright Through the Copy in Russia 
Abstract:
 How one copy of a film or a single is made illegal, while its identical
 twin is treated as legitimate? By drawing from the material collected in
 Russia on the illegal copying and distribution of video and musical
 contents, this paper moves beyond the definition of media piracy in legal
 terms, and instead examines practices of copying, the properties of
 copies, and the motivations that drive their circulation, color laws and
 their continuous application. It approaches the copy not as an isolated,
 individual unit but part of an assemblage, and demonstrates the existence
 of a specific culture of circulation which brings together its diverse
 components as one 'catchment'. In Russia, the legal and pirate media
 markets do not stand in opposition to one another but co-exist and even
 enable each other. Media goods have social value that extends beyond
 commercial, and which is strongly associated with the cultural
 reproduction of audiences who are cosmopolitan in character and partake in
 the transnational circuits of culture. Finally, the very definition of
 what is 'legal' in Russian is an outcome of the unstable process of
 authentication in which experts test, guess and create material trails of
 evidence to stabilize elusive digital substances. On the basis of these
 findings, the paper problematizes the social imaginary around the digital
 copy and with it, the widely circulating notion of 'piracy'.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 472-487 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 11  
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Author-Name: Paul Langley 
Author-X-Name-First: Paul 
Author-X-Name-Last: Langley 
Title: Banking Across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 488-493 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 6 
Year: 2013 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.783502 
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Author-Name: Brett Neilson 
Author-X-Name-First: Brett 
Author-X-Name-Last: Neilson 
Author-Name: Mark Coté 
Author-X-Name-First: Mark 
Author-X-Name-Last: Coté 
Title: Introduction: Are We All Cultural Workers Now? 
Abstract:
 Introducing a themed section entitled 'Are We All Cultural Workers Now?',
 this article explores the relation between precarity and cultural work. It
 argues that precarity should be understood as an experience rather than a
 category that allows a mapping of transformations of social class. The
 article also engages with current debates on cultural work and questions
 the proposition that changes in this area presage more general shifts in
 the organisation and exploitation of labour. Finally the piece introduces
 the four articles that make up the themed section.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 2-11 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.864989 
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Author-Name: Rosalind Gill 
Author-X-Name-First: Rosalind 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gill 
Title: Academics, Cultural Workers and Critical Labour Studies 
Abstract:
 The aim of this paper is to locate academics within the sights of critical
 labour studies, and, in particular, the contemporary interest in cultural
 workers. Despite a growing literature about - and in response to - the
 transformation of the University there have been few attempts to study
 academics as workers. This paper argues that there are a number of
 parallels between academic work and the much more well-documented
 experiences of work in the cultural and creative industries. The paper
 examines the increasing experience of precariousness among academics, the
 intensification and extensification of work, and the new modes of
 surveillance in the academy and their affective impacts. The aim of the
 article is to build on the critical lexicon of studies of cultural labour
 in order to think about academic work as labour and to generate new ways
 of thinking about power, privilege and exploitation. It argues for the
 need for a psychosocial perspective that can understand the new labouring
 subjectivities in academia.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 12-30 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.861763 
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Author-Name: Greig de Peuter 
Author-X-Name-First: Greig 
Author-X-Name-Last: de Peuter 
Title: Confronting Precarity in the Warhol Economy 
Abstract:
 Normative cultural economy discourse on New York City embraces the
 creative industries as engines of job creation but neglects the quality of
 employment within them. This article sets out to both illuminate the
 precarious conditions of nonstandard workers in New York's vaunted
 creative sectors and identify emerging collective responses to precarity
 in this city. Three areas of labour activity are focused upon: fashion
 industry frictions, art world agitations, and independent worker
 initiatives. Under each of these headings, the article profiles two
 organizations that are variously exposing, resisting, and mitigating
 precarity among flexible labour forces in the arts, the media, cultural
 industries, and beyond. The discussion of these organizations is informed
 by interviews with some of their protagonists, by documents produced by
 the organizations, and/or by media coverage of them. Challenging the
 assumption that getting by in informal cultural labour markets obliges
 individual coping strategies, this article reveals scenes from a
 metropolitan laboratory of precarious labour politics. These initiatives
 are inklings of a recomposition of labour politics in which flexible
 workforces in creative industries are important participants.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 31-47 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.856337 
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Author-Name: Annalisa Murgia 
Author-X-Name-First: Annalisa 
Author-X-Name-Last: Murgia 
Title: Representations of Precarity in Italy 
Abstract:
 This contribution is focused on collective and individual stories of
 precarity in Italy. At the present time, when work and the imaginaries
 socially constructed around it are more and more individualised and
 fragmented, imaginaries and collective references - whether they be social
 movements, trade unions or professional groups - have given way to ever
 more particularistic and singular experiences, which hinder the
 construction of a coherent identity for workers. In this scenario the
 question to be asked is then: how is it possible to elaborate a new
 collective imaginary of precarity and reclaim new rights? After a focus on
 the phenomenon of precarity in Italy, this contribution move to consider
 the activities of the network of San Precario, a cultural phenomenon that
 managed to develop new kinds of social claims based on bottom-up and
 horizontal practices. It is then discussed that the current return to an
 almost exclusively individual approach to the question of precarity, which
 forces subjects to bear the management of their professional life
 trajectories. Finally, an analysis of social movements' recent efforts of
 self-organisation and some reflections on the possible role of social
 sciences in elaborating tools for planning a renewed welfare system are
 offered.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 48-63 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.856336 
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Author-Name: George Morgan 
Author-X-Name-First: George 
Author-X-Name-Last: Morgan 
Author-Name: Julian Wood 
Author-X-Name-First: Julian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wood 
Title: Creative Accommodations 
Abstract:
 One of the key structural challenges of contemporary Western capitalism is
 to harness knowledge and creativity to produce new commodities and add
 value to old ones. This is in part about reconstructing as many workers as
 it can in the image of the new economy - turning Fordist 'hands' into
 flexible and self-propelling 'creatives' - and conscripting the momentum
 generally associated with recreation/play for the market. This article
 reports on biographical narrative research amongst young men with creative
 ambitions. We find that most do not easily assimilate to the demands of
 this transition: that the conscription of creativity is not 'lived' as
 smoothly as is suggested by creative industries discourse. Our data
 demonstrates that the new economy inflicts hidden injuries on aspiring
 artists and workers alike. Far from embracing the vague, disparate and
 precarious pathways of the self-assembled careers, our interviewees
 struggle to come to terms with frustrated ambitions and precarious lives.
 We look at young men who have sought to build 'careers' in the music
 industry none of whom makes a living out of music. They exemplify
 distinctive strategic responses to the elusiveness and transience of rock
 and roll, the classical 'fast-burn' creative vocation. Our analysis
 illustrates how (1) ambition is formed and sustained, (2) the pressures of
 poverty and precarity give rise to negotiations/compromises (day-jobs,
 marginal roles in 'creative industries') (3) in the face of at best
 limited success, creative identifications are resolved and outcomes
 reckoned. Our interviews challenged them to make sense of their lives and
 revealed that they are not the idealised 'frictionless' workers of
 flexible capitalism. Rather the non-conformist tendencies that drew them
 to rock and roll in the first place limit their ability to move with the
 vocational currents of the new economy.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 64-78 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 2 
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Author-Name: Magdalena Petersson McIntyre 
Author-X-Name-First: Magdalena 
Author-X-Name-Last: Petersson McIntyre 
Title: Commodifying Passion 
Abstract:
 What does it mean to love one's job? This article argues that for an
 understanding of power and agency in the labour market, particularly in
 the service and retail industry, passion needs to be given more
 consideration. Building on ethnographic observations and interviews with
 sales assistants and store managers within fashion retailing, the reasons
 for employees to perform 'aesthetic labour' are examined. Aesthetic labour
 generally refers to work practices in which workers are expected to
 conform to particular corporate aesthetics, management ideals or brand
 identities. The article argues that embodied work practices must be
 related to workers' own motivations. The purpose is to examine why so many
 people working as sales staff in the field of fashion retail claim to
 'love' their work and why 'passion' is considered so important? The
 findings of this work are that employees are driven by emotions and
 affects and that aesthetic labour relies on 'the commodification of
 passion'. Workers dressed and talked the way they did because they
 identified affectively with the self-organizing principles of these retail
 fields. Passion made sense to the interviewees because it gave meaning to
 being a working subject on the neo-liberal labour market.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 79-94 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.851029 
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Author-Name: Grahame Thompson 
Author-X-Name-First: Grahame 
Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson 
Title: From Artisan to Partisan 
Abstract:
 This article confronts the question of what a revitalized financial sector
 might look like if this were to be reconfigured so as to reproduce first
 an artisanal-like persona for the financial analyst and craft-like
 organizational structure for financial businesses, and second if this were
 to be re-territorialized so that it acted like a partisan rather than, as
 at present, like a disembedded footloose structure of 'global finance'.
 Initially the analysis is pitched at a rather abstract and theoretical
 level - pulling together artisans, nomads and partisans and tracing their
 intellectual lineages. But the chapter ends with three very concrete
 illustrations of actual financial relations in practice that meet some of
 the criteria for being both artisanal and partisanal.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 95-120 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.838599 
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Author-Name: Martha Poon 
Author-X-Name-First: Martha 
Author-X-Name-Last: Poon 
Title: Review Essay 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 121-126 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.778894 
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Author-Name: Olga Sezneva 
Author-X-Name-First: Olga 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sezneva 
Title: Creativity and its Discontents: China's Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offences 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 127-129 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 2  
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.796290 
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Author-Name: Esteve Sanz 
Author-X-Name-First: Esteve 
Author-X-Name-Last: Sanz 
Title: On the Symbolic Production of Digital Markets for Cultural Goods 
Abstract:
 This paper proposes and mobilizes a cultural economic framework to study
 the dynamic formation of digital markets for cultural goods. Adapting
 Hayek's theory of price to recent developments in the field of cultural
 sociology, it proposes the idea that an effective price system condenses
 information dispersed in society, and then enters into a performative
 process of symbolic communication that is perceived as 'authentic' by the
 consumers. After analyzing 'artificial' and 'authentic' current strategies
 aimed at producing digital markets for cultural goods, which are
 especially sensitive to the symbolic dimension of price, the article
 suggests the hypothesis that the digital market has been constructed as a
 zero- or quasi-zero-price economic space, and that it is the offline and
 material market of cultural products the one that collects the higher
 revenues derived from the 'authentic' generation of value taking place in
 the digital marketplace.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 131-144 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.851028 
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Author-Name: Patrick J. L. Cockburn 
Author-X-Name-First: Patrick J. L. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cockburn 
Title: Street Papers, Work and Begging: 'Experimenting' at the Margins of Economic Legitimacy 
Abstract:
 Street papers are publications produced specifically for sale by the
 homeless and other vulnerable people in many countries around the world.
 Their social status is, however, often conspicuously unstable: 'Get a
 job!' has been reported as a common insult addressed to vendors, and
 street paper organisations have responded with their own rhetoric and
 strategies that aim at disrupting any analogy with begging. The present
 analysis frames these rhetorical confrontations as a struggle over
 economic legitimacy, highlighting some of the ways in which social actors
 build and sever the normatively loaded associations that position them and
 others in social space, and how the 'experimental' combination of business
 and social responsibilities tests social actors' abilities to adapt to
 this practice.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 145-160 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.837630 
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Author-Name: Joanne Entwistle 
Author-X-Name-First: Joanne 
Author-X-Name-Last: Entwistle 
Author-Name: Don Slater 
Author-X-Name-First: Don 
Author-X-Name-Last: Slater 
Title: Reassembling the Cultural 
Abstract:
 The central argument in this paper is that actor-network theory (ANT) does
 not do 'cultural economy' symmetrically: it has had a lot to say about
 economy but much less to say about culture. This rejection of culture is
 ontological and epistemological: culture appears in ANT largely as an
 artefact of modernist thought rather than as an empirical aspect of
 agents' performances. And yet if 'economy' can be critiqued and reinstated
 as performative, so too can 'culture'. To explore this, we focus on
 objects of concern that - unlike the financial markets that have formed
 the core of ANT-inspired thinking about the economy - are assembled by
 actors in and through what they themselves understand to be cultural
 materials, cultural calculations, cultural processes, cultural
 institutions. In such examples, 'culture' is continuously invoked and
 enacted by actors in constructing their actions, whatever critical
 sociologists might have to say about its ontological status. It seems
 paradoxical that a theoretical approach that makes sacrosanct the
 associations constructed by agents who assemble their own world, generally
 discusses 'culture' only from the point of view of critical epistemology.
 Bearing all this in mind, we argue that it is time for us to 'reassemble'
 the cultural.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 161-177 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.783501 
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Author-Name: Cathy Greenfield 
Author-X-Name-First: Cathy 
Author-X-Name-Last: Greenfield 
Title: Building Political Economic Literacy in an Unexpected Place 
Abstract:
 How important is it for journalism, media, public relations and
 communication studies students more generally to acquire literacy in
 political economy? How possible is it for this to happen while maintaining
 now established specialized communication, journalism, media, public
 relations degrees or at least professional strands within communication
 degrees? A recent media campaign in Australia over a proposed mining tax
 throws into relief communication professionals' need for literacy in the
 orientations and positions of political economy. A recently implemented
 course gives some indicators of what can be achieved in this area. The
 article is thus about the spread and purchase of a culturally informed
 political economy rather than knotty questions within it. The article,
 first, sets out in brief key aspects of the media campaign in question and
 one journalist's reflection on the challenges it posed. It discusses what
 might be involved in equipping students with how to meet those challenges,
 placing this in the wider context of a course that introduces
 communication students to a non-reductionist, interdisciplinary political
 economy.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 178-193 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.781532 
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Author-Name: Jeremy Valentine 
Author-X-Name-First: Jeremy 
Author-X-Name-Last: Valentine 
Title: Rent and Political Economy in Culture Industry Work 
Abstract:
 This paper locates politics in culture industry work at the organisational
 and firm level through developing the application of the notion of rent to
 culture industries as revenues from intellectual properties, and as the
 more general sense of revenues derived from non-equivalential exchanges.
 The argument is that politics arises from attempts to establish or
 eliminate rents. The paper discusses ethnographic research on subjectivity
 and culture industry work and provides a theoretical account of rent in
 the capitalist imaginary and in explanations of formal problems of power
 in the entrepreneurial firm as the basis for the analysis of political
 practices in culture industries. The paper concludes with a discussion of
 the relation between rent and subjectivity and politics in neoliberalism.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 194-208 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.781055 
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Author-Name: Sveta Milyaeva 
Author-X-Name-First: Sveta 
Author-X-Name-Last: Milyaeva 
Title: Tipping the Balance 
Abstract:
 In its emphasis on the legal technicalities this article is concerned with
 materiality of financial markets - a key theme in social studies of
 finance. The paper insists on the importance of local legal culture by
 articulating this concept in distinction to politics. Focusing on the
 Amendment to Article 1062 of the Russian Civil Code concerning an
 important class of financial products - cash-settled currency derivatives
 - it synthesises the insights of actor-network theory and finitism, and
 argues that local legal culture is a composite of both distributed
 agencies and interpretative acts.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 209-225 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.762415 
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Author-Name: Karen Boll 
Author-X-Name-First: Karen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Boll 
Title: Representing and Performing Businesses 
Abstract:
 This article investigates a segmentation model used by the Danish Tax and
 Customs Administration to classify businesses' motivational postures. The
 article uses two different conceptualisations of performativity to analyse
 what the model's segmentations do: Hacking's notion of making up people
 and MacKenzie's idea of performativity. Based on these two approaches, the
 article demonstrates that the segmentation model represents and performs
 the businesses as it makes up certain new ways to be a business and as the
 businesses can be seen as moving targets. Inspired by MacKenzie the
 argument is that the segmentation model embodies cleverness in that it
 simultaneously alters what it represents and then represents this altered
 reality to confirm the accuracy of its own model of the businesses'
 postures. Despite the cleverness of the model, it also has a blind spot.
 The model assumes a world wherein everything around it is in motion and
 can be shaped, however, it sees itself as stable. This assumption turns
 out to be problematic as the tax administration questions the model's
 ability to produce valid comparisons. The article presents a detailed
 analysis of the model's performativity, providing an example of a
 performativity study whose methodology differs from the methodological
 criteria set up by MacKenzie.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 226-244 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.741530 
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Author-Name: Erica Coslor 
Author-X-Name-First: Erica 
Author-X-Name-Last: Coslor 
Title: Beyond Price: Value in Culture, Economics, and the Arts 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 245-248 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2012.762416 
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Author-Name: Ana Isabel Canhoto 
Author-X-Name-First: Ana Isabel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Canhoto 
Title: Speculative Security: The Politics of Pursuing Terrorist Monies 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 249-252 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014
Month: 5 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.851030 
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Author-Name: Pat O'Malley 
Author-X-Name-First: Pat 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Malley 
Author-Name: Alex Roberts 
Author-X-Name-First: Alex 
Author-X-Name-Last: Roberts 
Title: Governmental Conditions for the Economization of Uncertainty 
Abstract:
 The central place occupied by actuarial calculation in insurance is
 usually understood as resulting from the process of bringing the laws of
 large numbers to bear on archival data in terms of an 'insurance
 imaginary'. However, little attention is paid to the political and broader
 governmental conditions upon which actuarialism rests. Analysis of fire
 insurance in Australia indicates that despite urgings from other branches
 of insurance, the industry did not go down this 'scientific' track until
 well into the twentieth century. Instead, it relied on detailed individual
 inspection by insurance agents and a process of 'cumulative dangerousness'
 - adding up the multiple hazards discovered in each case and using this as
 a guide to setting premiums. The result was slow, expensive and
 cumbersome. But the industry was forced to adopt this approach because the
 built environment in Australian cities was so underregulated that nothing
 could be taken for granted. Only when adequately designed and enforced
 government regulations began to appear after the mid-1920s could fire
 insurance adopt actuarial techniques for economising uncertainty.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 253-272 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.860390 
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Author-Name: Stephen J. Collier 
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen J. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Collier 
Title: Neoliberalism and Natural Disaster 
Abstract:
 A substantial recent literature has examined insurance as a mechanism for
 economizing uncertain but potentially catastrophic events. Less attention
 has been paid to how insurantial techniques for economizing catastrophe
 have been deployed as <italic>political technologies</italic>. Focusing on
 discussions of US flood policy in the 1960s, the present article examines
 how insurance was used to forge new articulations and accommodations
 between political government and processes of rationalization. On the one
 hand, insurance provided a <italic>technical solution</italic> to problems
 that had long confronted US policy-makers: How to reduce losses from
 floods? How to fully compensate individuals who suffered losses? On the
 other hand, insurance was a device for <italic>reshaping the aims and
 objects of government</italic>, and for reframing questions that are more
 frequently situated at the level of political philosophy: What are the
 respective responsibilities of individual citizens and government in
 providing security? What tradeoffs must be made between the provision of
 security and economic rationality? What values are relevant in orienting
 public policy? In examining these issues, the article raises questions
 about standard narratives about the changing relations among risk,
 responsibility, and security in recent decades, particularly as they
 relate to neoliberalism.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 273-290 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 8 
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Author-Name: José Ossandón 
Author-X-Name-First: José 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ossandón 
Title: Reassembling and Cutting the Social with Health Insurance 
Abstract:
 By rescuing an obscure and almost forgotten parliamentary controversy in
 Chile, this article shows how private property and solidarity cohabit in
 health insurance. To do so, it follows both pragmatist sociology, where
 controversies are seen as situations in which social formations are
 questioned and reconfigured, and recent economic sociology, studying how
 marketisation might help in assembling and not only destroying social
 bonds. Simultaneously, this work departs from these influences in three
 directions. It deals with two ways of assembling the social, solidarity
 and property, which have remained overlooked in the proximate literature.
 Rather than a detailed ethnographic description, it works analogically,
 eliciting new interpretations of the empirical material by pairing the
 social scientific concepts mobilised in the studied controversy with the
 conceptual tools developed in recent social sciences. And, by analysing a
 parliamentary controversy regarding insurance, it complements recent work
 that is starting to study how finance commodities are enacted not only in
 traditional market encounters but also in a varied array of collateral
 sites, including courts, social policy and regulation controversies.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 291-307 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.869243 
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Author-Name: Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen 
Author-X-Name-First: Turo-Kimmo 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lehtonen 
Title: Picturing How Life Insurance Matters 
Abstract:
 What kind of object is private life insurance? To discuss this question,
 this article examines how life insurance is pictured, that is, explained
 and concretized with words and visual images, in the promotion of private
 life insurance in Finland between 1945 and 2000. In principle, life
 insurance can only be used for assessing and securing the economic value
 of life. The empirical material shows, however, that life insurance, as an
 object, can only exist if economic value and other values constantly
 overflow into each other, and calculation and affect are made to
 intertwine. In order to objectify their potential customers' lives as
 economic potential, as commodities, insurance companies have indeed had to
 objectify life - yet not only in terms of monetary value, but
 simultaneously and as importantly, also as something that is irreducible
 to monetary value. Hence the promotion of life insurance enacts a double
 stabilization of objects. On the one hand, advertisements and leaflets
 show how life insurance matters, what it is capable of, and thus stabilize
 the understanding of insurance itself as a tool. On the other hand, the
 promotional materials both stabilize and mobilize 'life' as an assemblage
 of heterogeneous practices and modes of valuation that is irreducible to
 economic potential.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 308-333 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.869503 
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Author-Name: Ine Van Hoyweghen 
Author-X-Name-First: Ine 
Author-X-Name-Last: Van Hoyweghen 
Title: On the Politics of Calculative Devices 
Abstract:
 This article examines the politics of calculative devices in one of the
 most successful areas of finance, the life insurance business. By
 empirically tracing an insurance applicant's risk trajectory, it analyses
 how calculative devices perform insurance underwriting through acting on
 insurance risk decisions. This allows one to document what calculative
 devices exactly do, and to point out the political effects of what they
 do. First, it highlights the fact that, contrary to thinking in terms of
 'the insurance logic', there are multiple ways of calcuting life insurance
 risks. Second, it underscores the crucial role of calculative devices in
 that process by demonstrating how they align considerations as divergent
 as economics and medicine to perform a life insurance market. It then
 demonstrates the political effects of these calculative devices by making
 explicit how the latter contribute to the production of inequalities in
 calculative power in life insurance. In this way, the article links up
 insights from the performativity approach in the sociology of markets with
 the broader question of governing economic life. Such an approach, it is
 argued, provides the opportunity to open up the organization of economic
 markets and to put classic questions of justice and power struggles in
 economic markets on the agenda again.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 334-352 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 8 
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Author-Name: Luis Lobo-Guerrero 
Author-X-Name-First: Luis 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lobo-Guerrero 
Title: Life Securitisation, the Event Object of Insurance and the Strategisation of Time 
Abstract:
 Understanding the matter of insurability as a problem of governing
 uncertainty has led to thinking 'the event' as the object of insurance.
 How the event is understood and conceptualized determines to a great
 extent the ways in which its related uncertainty will be rendered. This,
 in turn, will determine how such uncertainty will be managed. Although
 this idea has been widely explored with important nuances by various
 scholars, what has not been discussed in great detail is the problematic
 idea of temporality and the role time plays in helping constitute the
 event object of insurance. Such a problem is of great relevance for
 pushing forward the debate on the limits of insurability. The empirical
 cases used in this article, Swiss Re's Vita and Kortis, launched and
 developed during the last decade, relate to hedging the exposure of life
 and health insurance portfolios to events that would generate excess
 mortality and excess vitality. The schemes, as explored here, are not
 simply actuarial, although actuarial practice still figures prominently in
 their crafting. They involve the strategic articulation of varied forms of
 knowledge that enshrine particular understandings of time and produce the
 truth-base of insurable events.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 353-370 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 8 
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Author-Name: Dean Pierides 
Author-X-Name-First: Dean 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pierides 
Title: Political economies of security for some time to come 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 371-377 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 8 
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Author-Name: Christopher Kelty 
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kelty 
Title: The Politics of Crowds: An Alternative History of Sociology 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 378-380 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.840667 
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Author-Name: Alberto Corsín Jiménez 
Author-X-Name-First: Alberto 
Author-X-Name-Last: Corsín Jiménez 
Title: Introduction 
Abstract:
 The essay offers an introduction to the special issue and further attempts
 to situate the concept of the prototype within the larger field of an
 anthropology of prefiguration. I make a particular claim for the rise of
 'prototyping' as a cultural discourse today, in design, engineering and
 artistic circles but also among analogous experimental moments in social
 studies of science and critical theory. I focus in particular on the
 affordances of the prototype as material culture and sociological theory:
 prototyping as something that happens to social relationships when one
 approaches the craft and agency of objects in particular ways. Last, the
 essay examines the work that prototypes do as figures of suspension and
 expectation, where they can be seen to function as 'traps' for the
 emergence of compossibility. They offer in this guise a design for
 contemporary complexity that is at once 'more than many and less than
 one'.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 381-398 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 11 
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Author-Name: George Marcus 
Author-X-Name-First: George 
Author-X-Name-Last: Marcus 
Title: Prototyping  and  Contemporary Anthropological Experiments With Ethnographic Method 
Abstract:
 This paper uses two senses of the concept and practice of 'prototype' in
 its usual industry and design contexts to explore several experimental
 strategies in the pursuit and production of ethnographic research in its
 anthropological tradition. It is argued that the latter tradition of
 research requires new forms that impinge not so much on its established
 modes of scholarly communication - the article, the monograph - but on how
 it establishes the conditions of fieldwork in contemporary multi-sited
 spaces of complex assemblages and big projects through which ethnography
 operates and defines its objects of study. These forms are conceived as
 'third spaces', materialized as staged occasions, studios, labs,
 established alongside the traditional serendipitous path of fieldwork, and
 involve explicit intellectual partnerships with persons who might
 otherwise be viewed as facilitators or subjects of research. These third
 spaces produce prototypes as accessible alternative products of
 contemporary ethnographic experiments. The author's recent experiments
 with collaborative research at the World Trade Organization is explored in
 these terms.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 399-410 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.858061 
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Author-Name: Michael Guggenheim 
Author-X-Name-First: Michael 
Author-X-Name-Last: Guggenheim 
Title: From Prototyping to Allotyping 
Abstract:
 The chapter analyses the invention and the form of the discourse on
 building conversion as one particular instance of redefining what a
 technology is and how it operates. I describe a shift from expert defined
 closure to lay based openness and tinkering as a shift from prototyping to
 allotyping: Since the early 1970s, change of use and building conversion
 have become a central and fashionable discourse among architects and
 architectural theorists. Before the 1970s, buildings were understood as
 technologies, as 'society made durable'. The notion of building type was
 central to link a building to a given use. A bank was a bank because
 architects applied existing templates, prototypes, to turn a building into
 a bank. In the 1970s, suddenly buildings became flexible - discursively,
 since building conversion always existed: 'Building type' no longer was a
 meaningful link between a building and its use. A bank should not stay a
 bank, but become a hotel, a theatre or a flat, in short: an allotype. The
 chapter elucidate this central shift in thinking about buildings and
 reflects on the special case of allotyping buildings and how it continues
 to vex thinking about buildings.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 411-433 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.858060 
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Author-Name: Javier Lezaun 
Author-X-Name-First: Javier 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lezaun 
Author-Name: Nerea Calvillo 
Author-X-Name-First: Nerea 
Author-X-Name-Last: Calvillo 
Title: In the Political Laboratory: Kurt Lewin's <italic>Atmospheres</italic> 
Abstract:
 In a series of groundbreaking studies conducted in the late 1930s at the
 Iowa Child Welfare Research Station, the émigré German psychologist Kurt
 Lewin and his graduate student Ronald Lippitt transformed the relationship
 between social-scientific experimentation and political design. In the
 controlled, confined space of the laboratory they were able to produce,
 they claimed, distinct political 'climates'. Authoritarian, laissez-faire
 and, most precarious and precious of all, democratic 'atmospheres' were
 the observable effect of subjecting small groups of children to different
 styles of 'leadership' under artificial conditions of work-play. In this
 essay, we reconstruct the practical set-up that allowed Lewin and Lippitt
 to render political forms observable and manipulable under experimental
 conditions. We will analyze the physical configuration and material
 furnishings of the experimental setting, as well as the self-affected
 practices of 'leadership' that the experimenters deployed in their
 attempts to change the political valence of groups. The discovery of a set
 of technical procedures for the realization of localized but tangible
 forms of democratic life was a startling and welcome discovery in the
 bleak years of totalitarian ascendancy. We conclude by revisiting the
 significance of these experiments for our understanding of how the social
 sciences can generate spaces and situations of political experimentation.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 434-457 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.860045 
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Author-Name: James Leach 
Author-X-Name-First: James 
Author-X-Name-Last: Leach 
Title: Choreographic Objects 
Abstract:
 Several successful contemporary dance companies in Europe are
 experimenting with new ways of presenting choreography and movement
 utilising digital media. Here, an analysis is offered of the context in
 which these innovations are stimulated, focusing on their efforts to
 demonstrate that contemporary dance is a 'knowledge-producing' endeavour.
 I tie this to the demands of knowledge economies. I then offer an analysis
 of specific projects and the 'choreographic objects' that result from them
 utilising exchange theory drawn in part from Melanesian anthropology. The
 resulting analysis of things-in-the-making and things-in-circulation
 reveals how choreographic objects are shaped by dance practitioners' views
 of themselves, their interests, and their desire to control perceptions of
 their practice as well as by the need to find an appropriate mode in which
 to demonstrate the value of this practice through the transfer of
 knowledge. The move towards 'knowledge production' and towards recasting
 relationships with audiences are construed as experiments with the form of
 social relations through new forms of transaction. I come to re-present
 the digital creations of dance companies as 'prototype' forms for
 relational engagement with audiences and the wider public.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 458-475 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 11 
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Author-Name: Alex Wilkie 
Author-X-Name-First: Alex 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilkie 
Title: Prototyping as Event: Designing the Future of Obesity 
Abstract:
 This paper takes up the notion of event to explore the practice of
 prototyping in design as a relational process generative of multiple
 becomings. The paper outlines a case involving a team of user-centred
 designers as they envision, construct and demonstrate a wearable
 technology to intervene in public health warnings concerning obesity. The
 paper examines various co-becomings of users and technology through the
 course of a two-stage development cycle and employs the heuristic
 distinction between 'distal' and 'proximal' users as means to examine the
 different definitions of obesity occasioned therein. The term 'inventive
 risk discourse' is coined to describe the designers' articulation of the
 problem space of obesity as a future figuring putative users. Examples of
 proximal users are then discussed as users involved in the various
 enactments of the prototype system as it is programmed and assembled in
 the present. The implications of this are discussed in terms of the
 specific definitions of obesity that concresce around particular
 prototype-user assemblages as well as indicators of overspill that often
 exceed normative accounts. In conclusion, I consider the case as a rough
 cosmopolitical sketch where designers engage obesity science as inventive
 problem making where multiple empirical variations of obesity emerge.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 476-492 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 11 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.859631 
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Author-Name: Alberto Corsín Jiménez 
Author-X-Name-First: Alberto Corsín 
Author-X-Name-Last: Jiménez 
Author-Name: Adolfo Estalella 
Author-X-Name-First: Adolfo 
Author-X-Name-Last: Estalella 
Author-Name: Zoohaus Collective 
Author-X-Name-First: Zoohaus 
Author-X-Name-Last: Collective 
Title: The Interior Design of [Free] Knowledge 
Abstract:
 What would a "free knowledge bank'look like if it were to be designed as
 an architectural object? The challenge was posed by El Ranchito, a
 curatorial project based at Madrid's contemporary art centre, Matadero, to
 the art and architectural collective Zoohaus in 2011. The project aimed to
 turn into a 3-D model (hereafter known as the Offfficina) a variety of
 architectural "collective intelligences' (based on do-it-yourself,
 retrofitted, community-driven architectural designs and adaptations) that
 Zoohaus had long been collecting and documenting from locations the world
 over. This essay tells the story of the making and travails of the
 Offfficina. It describes the work that Zoohaus has been carrying out in
 documenting constructive techniques worldwide: their use of diagrams,
 photographs, videos or digital social media in experimenting with, or
 improvising new models and forms of architectural representation.
 Furthermore, it describes the challenges faced in turning such "models'
 into "prototypes': when the experimental form must remain openly recursive
 to its own re/presentational sources. The paper ends by describing the
 most radical of such recursive transformations, where the Offfficina was
 turned into an "ambient' or atmospheric object, and in the process
 reimagined (free) knowledge as dimensional piece of interior design
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 493-515 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 7 
Year: 2014 
Month: 11 
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Author-Name: Liz McFall 
Author-X-Name-First: Liz 
Author-X-Name-Last: McFall 
Title: What's changing cultural economy? 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 1-15 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.988670 
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Author-X-Name-First: Joshua S. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hanan 
Author-Name: Catherine Chaput 
Author-X-Name-First: Catherine 
Author-X-Name-Last: Chaput 
Title: A Rhetoric of Economics beyond Civic Humanism: Exploring the Political Economy of Rhetoric in the Context of Late Neoliberalism 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 16-24 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.982152 
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Author-Name: Sine Nørholm Just 
Author-X-Name-First: Sine 
Author-X-Name-Last: Nørholm Just 
Title: The Negotiation of Basel III 
Abstract:
 While the Basel Accords of 1988 and 2004 (Basel I and Basel II) ostensibly
 set out to regulate bank risk at the international level, they were
 effectively in the grip of neoliberal beliefs in the self-regulating
 potential of free markets. In 2009-2011, the Basel Accords were revised
 once more with the intent of establishing financial regulations that would
 prevent future stampedes on the financial markets. This could be seen as
 the introduction of a new order in which markets are, indeed, governed
 through standards. However, this paper argues that Basel III is, like its
 predecessors, caught in rhetorically charged performation struggles in
 which neoliberal principles continue to hold sway, and may, at best, be
 seen as postliberalism in the making. Beginning from a reconceptualization
 of the theory of performativity of economics that highlights the
 contingent and political nature of performative agency, the empirical
 argument is substantiated through textual-intertextual analysis of the
 rhetorical circulation of affective signs in the Basel III negotiations.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 25-41 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 2 
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Author-Name: Catherine Chaput 
Author-X-Name-First: Catherine 
Author-X-Name-Last: Chaput 
Author-Name: Joshua S. Hanan 
Author-X-Name-First: Joshua S. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hanan 
Title: Economic Rhetoric as <italic>Taxis</italic> 
Abstract:
 This essay expands the rhetoric of economics conversation started by
 economist Deirdre McCloskey. Through a close engagement with Michel
 Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France from 1975 to 1979, concerning
 the dual problematics of liberalism and biopolitics, we argue for
 theorizing economic rhetoric as a governmental problem of order, or taxis,
 which arranges value among divergent subjects beyond the dichotomies of
 material/cultural and global/local. This approach toward rhetoric, we
 further contend, takes as its strategic form what Foucault and Agamben
 have called a dispositif. We demonstrate this premise through a case study
 of Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt's notion of freakonomics, suggesting
 that it can be understood as a rhetorical dispositif working within the
 broader political rationality of neoliberal governmentality. We end by
 gesturing toward a rhetoric of the common as an alternative to the
 dispositif of freakonomics.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 42-61 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.942349 
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Author-Name: Victor Villanueva 
Author-X-Name-First: Victor 
Author-X-Name-Last: Villanueva 
Title: Puerto Rico 
Abstract:
 The rhetoric of neoliberalism that applies to the periphery -
 self-determination, free trade, and the like - has been a part of the
 discourse surrounding Puerto Rico (and subsequently much of Latin America)
 for a lot longer than 1973, the year that David Harvey and Naomi Klein
 establish as the birth year of neoliberalism. In this article, I trace the
 history of Puerto Rico - 1897-2013 - and the consistent tropes of a
 rhetoric of neoliberalism at play.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 62-74 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.942348 
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Author-Name: G. Thomas Goodnight 
Author-X-Name-First: G. Thomas 
Author-X-Name-Last: Goodnight 
Author-Name: David Hingstman 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hingstman 
Author-Name: Sandy Green 
Author-X-Name-First: Sandy 
Author-X-Name-Last: Green 
Title: The Student Debt Bubble 
Abstract:
 The 'student debt bubble' is an ideograph referring to the growing
 imbalance between the costs of higher education and the capacity of
 students to shoulder increasing debt burdens. This unsustainable condition
 is constructed by numerous stakeholders, who have dramatically resituated
 risks and rewards in higher education. The resulting debt bubble has
 multiple outcomes, including incremental efforts for reform at the federal
 level, ideological speculation by neoliberal bloggers, and vituperative
 assaults on higher education by state and local politicians. Following
 Kenneth Burke, we isolate the student debt bubble as network and rhetoric
 of motives.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 75-100 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 2  
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.947307 
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Author-Name: Thomas Abrams 
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas 
Author-X-Name-Last: Abrams 
Title: From Homines Inhabiles to Homo Economicus and Back Again 
Abstract:
 Michel Callon's economic sociology frequently addresses the topic of
 disability. Though his Actor-Network Theory (ANT) contributions are often
 cited within mainstream disability studies, his economic sociology has
 not. In this paper, I seek to present it to disability studies, and argue
 that it is complimentary to existing inquiries into the political economy
 of disablement. After sketching out ANT and Callon's economic sociology,
 which I read as part of the ANT tradition, I apply them to the case of the
 Ontario Disability Support Program's (ODSP) Employment Supports. This ODSP
 program seeks to include disabled Ontarians in the labor market. It also
 offers us the opportunity to examine the utility of Callon's work. I
 conclude with a discussion of future Callon-inspired disability studies.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 101-114 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.870085 
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Author-Name: Crystal Colombini 
Author-X-Name-First: Crystal 
Author-X-Name-Last: Colombini 
Title: 'Market Talk' and Talking Back 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 115-122 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.953977 
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Author-Name: Dave O'Brien 
Author-X-Name-First: Dave 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Brien 
Title: Making Culture, Changing Society 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 123-124 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.890638 
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Author-Name: Brett Christophers 
Author-X-Name-First: Brett 
Author-X-Name-Last: Christophers 
Title: The Law's Markets 
Abstract:
 Recent research has suggested that one of the key ways in which economics
 and cognate calculative discourses and practices 'perform' the economy is
 through the drawing of conceptual boundaries between economic activities
 and entities of various sorts. One such boundary is the boundary between
 markets. This article shows that a critical contemporary arena for the
 differentiation of one product or service market from another is
 competition (or antitrust) law, which, through its work of market
 definition, seeks to identify the boundaries of competition: the location
 of the borders between meaningful economic spaces within which buyers and
 sellers encounter one another and establish prices. The article argues
 that in envisioning markets ('the law's markets'), competition law
 simultaneously constitutes markets, and it demonstrates this through an
 empirical examination of the exercise of such law in three economic
 sectors: insurance, grocery retailing, and pay-television. It also shows,
 however, that competition law is perennially dogged by conflict - both
 over the placement of such conceptual boundaries, and over the very
 process of placement and the status of the market boundary itself - and
 that its application and effects can only be understood in this light.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 125-143 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.781533 
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Author-Name: Diana Betzler 
Author-X-Name-First: Diana 
Author-X-Name-Last: Betzler 
Title: Factors of Board Governance and Fundraising Success 
Abstract:
 This article presents an empirical analysis of board governance and
 fundraising performance in a sample of 98 Swiss museums. Through multiple
 regression analysis, the inclusion of donors and business professionals on
 museums' boards is identified as a significant success factor for
 fundraising governance in Swiss museums. This study substantiates the
 central role board composition plays in arts management and nonprofit
 research. Through covariance analysis, the relevance of the variables
 'organization size' and 'legal form' is further discussed.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 144-165 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.797919 
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Author-Name: Martin Tironi 
Author-X-Name-First: Martin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Tironi 
Title: (De)politicising and Ecologising Bicycles 
Abstract:
 Self-service bicycle systems are today being set up in a number of cities
 across the world. Seen as a means to promote a sustainable city and new
 forms of ecology, and valued for their 'planet friendly' character, these
 systems have become a hallmark for cities that want to become part of the
 so-called green culture. Drawing from the experience of the Vélib'
 programme in Paris and adopting a pragmatist perspective, this paper
 analyses the controversies which developed as this transportation
 infrastructure was implemented, as well as the definitions of 'ecology'
 which were at the centre of the dispute. In doing so it shows the capacity
 of the private firm involved in the system, JCDecaux, to 'hijack' and
 integrate the ecological critique, its rather powerful capacity to
 persuade other actors, and the popularity that the project achieved
 through a hard-won process of justification. At the same time, this paper
 argues that the mobility turn played a performative role in the
 justification and the definition of this new transport project.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 166-183 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.838600 
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Author-Name: Svein Ivar Angell 
Author-X-Name-First: Svein Ivar 
Author-X-Name-Last: Angell 
Author-Name: Mads Mordhorst 
Author-X-Name-First: Mads 
Author-X-Name-Last: Mordhorst 
Title: National Reputation Management and the Competition State 
Abstract:
 The paper deals with the national reputation programmes of Denmark and
 Norway in the period 2005-2010. The first section demonstrates how
 national reputation management emerged as a part of the globalization
 discourse and illustrates its hybrid character. The paper then gives a
 short overview of the two approaches, nation branding and public
 diplomacy. In the next section, national reputation management efforts in
 Denmark and Norway are compared according to three variables: how they
 were launched in response to globalization, the role of consultants, and
 the countries' different institutional settings. The article concludes
 with a discussion of how the elements of national reputation management
 interact in the initiatives of the two countries and how this relates to
 the general change in the relationship between nation-states on the global
 scene. The paper concludes that Norway and Denmark represent two different
 variations of a new, hybrid national reputation management. In the
 Norwegian case, the political and cultural spheres infiltrated the
 commercial sphere, while in Denmark, the commercial sphere infiltrated the
 cultural and political spheres
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 184-201 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.885459 
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Author-Name: Daniel Seabra Lopes 
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Seabra 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes 
Title: Number Interception 
Abstract:
 This article presents an ethnographic study of financial risk management
 in the retail banking sector with the aim of highlighting some
 interactional aspects of epistemic practices. The focus is centred on
 concrete and particular applications of standardized concepts such as
 market-value and value-at-risk. The close analyst engagement with
 numerical information is portrayed through a sequence of four practice
 modulations, which configure a movement from the unproblematic to the
 problematic, starting with value <italic>verification</italic> and value
 <italic>explanation</italic>, moving on to norm
 <italic>discussion</italic> and ending with
 <italic>inference/generalization</italic> procedures for the purposes of
 value re-estimation. The ethnographic evidence presented also reveals
 primary engagement with numerical inscriptions via boundary objects
 (specifically software programs and database management languages) and
 subsidiary human interaction; and a steady division of labour between
 humans and machines, with computers acting as mass calculators and
 analysts as skilled number surveyors. The implications of these findings
 are further assessed in terms of a possible cultural understanding of
 evaluation practices.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 202-217 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.858063 
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Author-Name: David Schleifer 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: Schleifer 
Author-Name: Michaela DeSoucey 
Author-X-Name-First: Michaela 
Author-X-Name-Last: DeSoucey 
Title: What Your Consumer Wants 
Abstract:
 With what mechanisms and cultural resources do market actors pursue
 change? Based on an analysis of business-to-business advertisements in two
 US food industry trade publications, we show the generative influence of
 social movements on perceived market opportunities. Building on recent
 scholarship on market-making, we find that market actors articulate and
 reshape critiques of their own industry by making claims about what
 consumers ostensibly want and about how their products can satisfy those
 desires. We find that business-to-business food ingredient advertisements
 selectively articulate precepts of the emergent 'good food' movement by
 urging manufacturers to develop healthy, natural, and 'clean' foods. While
 'good food' advocates typically portray processed and packaged food as
 inherently unhealthy, suppliers and trade associations' advertisements
 transform this critique by claiming that products will be more marketable
 to consumers if they are made with ingredients designed to provide
 specific health benefits and to comply with federally mandated product
 labeling regulations. As such, we find that these business-to-business
 advertisements mediate between imagined demands and pragmatic constraints
 while serving as a conduit for the influence of social movements on
 industry practices and products.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 218-234 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.861356 
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Author-Name: Javier Lezaun 
Author-X-Name-First: Javier 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lezaun 
Title: Democracy in America 3D 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 235-244 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.948482 
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Author-Name: Maria Koleth 
Author-X-Name-First: Maria 
Author-X-Name-Last: Koleth 
Title: The Temp Economy: From Kelly Girls to Permatemps in Postwar America 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 245-248 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.974655 
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Author-Name: Philip Roscoe 
Author-X-Name-First: Philip 
Author-X-Name-Last: Roscoe 
Title: The Possibility of Critique 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 249-256 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.870086 
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Author-Name: Melinda Cooper 
Author-X-Name-First: Melinda 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cooper 
Title: In vivo economies: temporalities of life and value 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 257-259 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1039461 
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Author-Name: Nadine Ehlers 
Author-X-Name-First: Nadine 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ehlers 
Title: Fat Capital 
Abstract:
 Within the domain of breast reconstruction, abject fat has become a form
 of biovalue to be harnessed, harvested, and remediated through fat
 transfer, fat grafting, the therapeutic use of fat stem cells, and fat
 banking. Each of these technologies deploys fat as capital and promises to
 return corporeal wholeness following breast cancer surgery. This paper
 explores the supposed endless malleability of fat and the Promethean dream
 it represents. In the context of these technologies, the paper asks under
 what conditions can fat become biovalue; what new corporeal economies are
 created through the labor of fat; how is this form of biovalue
 inextricable from the vast circuitry of the breast cancer industry; and
 how do broader patterns of social dispossession delimit who has access to
 this dream? It becomes evident that fat gets to be revalued and remediated
 by women already privileged within circuits of capital, demarcations along
 lines of race, and notions of normative embodiment. Ultimately, it is the
 ideal neoliberal subject - one who is 'able' to assume responsibility for
 her own health - that is the inheritor of this dream.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 260-274 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.975828 
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Author-Name: Catherine Waldby 
Author-X-Name-First: Catherine 
Author-X-Name-Last: Waldby 
Title: THE OOCYTE MARKET AND SOCIAL EGG FREEZING: From scarcity to singularity 
Abstract:
 Human oöcytes (eggs) have proved quite resistant to the gift system that
 regulates much tissue donation in the developed nations. With a few
 exceptions, they move from donor to recipient through incentive systems,
 including high rates of compensation and frank payment. Recently, women
 have turned in small but growing numbers to private oöcyte banking as a
 way to preserve and defer their fertility. This paper draws on interviews
 with both clinicians and clients to consider the ways that women use
 private banking to manage fertility. It argues that the move from
 purchasing third-party fertility to private banking is a move from a
 scarcity economy, where lack is resolved in exchange (Simmel), to an
 economy of singularities (Karpik) where the autologous genetic signature
 of the materiel renders it non-commensurable. Hence, its value can only be
 realised through preservation and private retention.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 275-291 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1039457 
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Author-Name: David Factor 
Author-X-Name-First: David 
Author-X-Name-Last: Factor 
Title: Making Bio-Expectations 
Abstract:
 This paper marks one attempt to open up the boundaries of humanitarianism
 to the diverse effects of scientific objects, practices and technologies.
 It follows the frontiers of their effects with one particularly
 consequential practice of scientific reductionism through its implication
 with vitamin A deficiency. I open up how the scientific articulation of
 vitamin A is not simply about reductionism as a process of limiting, but
 one that unfolds as something more malleable, more multiple; how it is a
 shifting, distributed reality that speaks of the ongoing effects of
 reductionism as giving life to, among other things, emotive abstractions,
 and efforts to widen a distinctly humanitarian promise. I show how this
 scientific practice puts into play a set of emotive abstractions around
 the figure of the 'Third World child', un/remaking the problem as a
 morally tense 'bio-expectation' that ensures the survival of children
 across the generalised expanse of the Global South.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 292-308 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1039460 
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Author-Name: Simon Factor 
Author-X-Name-First: Simon 
Author-X-Name-Last: Factor 
Title: The Experimental Economy of Geoengineering 
Abstract:
 Will the practical application of geoengineering technologies
 inadvertently bring about the catastrophic futures they are meant to
 pre-empt? And is such elicitation of unpredictability as unintended as it
 might appear - the accidental consequence of the extension of a modernist
 attitude to control and domesticate nature? To grasp what is at stake in
 such questions, this paper traces out the marginal history of ocean
 geoengineering, its correlative 'green' economy, and through the
 deployment of algae as an inventive world-remaking device, their
 co-formation of the earth as a site of unbounded experimentation - of what
 I call experiment earth. My argument here is that such methods of
 geoengineering inject disturbances into the algae-ocean-earth system that
 do not seek control, but to elicit surprise and explicate the mechanisms
 of the complex permutations of their unpredictability, where new forms of
 knowledge and value are created not through the application of
 preconceived ideas or a process of commensuration, but through the
 harnessing of anticipation and the generation of surprise. How, I ask, are
 we to understand the lineaments of a pre-emptive 'green' economy that is
 premised on not just managing, but speculatively materially recomposing
 the non-linear chemical and ecological constitution of the earth's
 metabolism? And what, from this vantage point, is the earth becoming?
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 309-324 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1039459 
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Author-Name: Aihwa Ong 
Author-X-Name-First: Aihwa 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ong 
Title: Why Singapore Trumps Iceland 
Abstract:
 The article explores how a National Institute of Health policy of
 racialization-as-inclusion in research informs the building of Asian DNA
 databases at Biopolis, an emerging biomedical hub in Singapore. Citing
 variability in DNA and populations in the Asian region, Singaporean
 biostatisticians challenge DeCode Genetics of Iceland as an exemplary
 model of genomic research. They claim that genetic traits among
 populations in Asia that are relatively new to medical genomics - and
 being gathered 'in the wild' - gain value from being calculated and
 databased. The infrastructure deploys the ethnic heuristic in different
 registers. First, the network of ethnicity becomes a supple membrane
 coextensive with the network of genetic data points. Second, ethnicity is
 rendered an immutable mobile that circulates databases beyond tiny
 Singapore, making the infrastructure at once situated, flexible, and
 expansive. Third, the ethnic signifier carries affective value that
 enhances a sense of what is at stake in the building, mobilization and
 implications of such Asian databases. In short, the origami-like folding
 together of multiple, flowable, and perfomative data points shapes a
 unilateral topological space of biomedical 'Asia.'
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 325-341 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1009149 
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Author-Name: John Allen 
Author-X-Name-First: John 
Author-X-Name-Last: Allen 
Author-Name: Stephanie Lavau 
Author-X-Name-First: Stephanie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lavau 
Title: 'Just-in-Time' Disease 
Abstract:
 Disease and profits make for interesting bedfellows in modern factory
 farming, especially where poultry is concerned. Profitable, cheap
 factory-farmed chicken is dependent on large-scale, industrial throughput,
 yet those very same intensive conditions pose real risks for disease
 outbreaks. <italic>Campylobacter</italic> in poultry is now the main
 reported cause of food poisoning in the UK, responsible for more than 100
 deaths a year. In this paper, drawing upon fieldwork from across the
 poultry supply chain, we argue that the intersection of just-in-time
 pressures, commercial and regulatory, with particular practices of
 biosecurity on farms and in processing factories, provides prime
 conditions for the amplification and spread of
 <italic>Campylobacter</italic>. We go on to argue that such ecologies of
 poultry production are best understood as part of a relational economy of
 disease, and that the very control exercised over the lives of farmed
 birds risks reversal into ever greater insecurity.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 342-360 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.904243 
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Author-Name: Joanna Radin 
Author-X-Name-First: Joanna 
Author-X-Name-Last: Radin 
Title: Planned Hindsight 
Abstract:
 By the early 1980s, many life scientists had begun to maintain small
 collections of cryopreserved tissues for their own specific research
 purposes. It became apparent that these materials could be successfully
 reused as new techniques and research questions emerged. This realization
 led several American leaders in the field of systematic taxonomy (the
 science of biological classification) and conservation genetics to argue
 for the need to take stock of and coordinate these heterogeneous
 collections. Their strategy, which they called 'planned hindsight,' was
 meant to organize the present in a way that appeared to anticipate the
 needs of future scientists. In this paper I examine how the seemingly
 paradoxical strategy of 'planned hindsight' has functioned as a strategy
 for choreographing life, time, and value at two centralized biospecimen
 collections: The Frozen Zoo in Escondido, CA, USA, and the Ambrose Monell
 Cryo Collection at the American Museum of Natural History in New York
 City. I conclude that, in practice, 'planned hindsight' not only
 contributes to the endurance of frozen tissues but also preserves widely
 divergent speculative visions of the many different individuals involved
 with their creation, maintenance, and re-use.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 361-378 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1039458 
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Author-Name: Warwick Anderson 
Author-X-Name-First: Warwick 
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson 
Title: The Frozen Archive, or Defrosting Derrida 
Abstract:
 What does freezing human tissue and fluids, or human remains, do to the
 mobility, temporality, and value of such objects? While Jacques Derrida
 toward the end of his life considered the consequences for the remainder
 of burial and cremation, he did not consider freezing, the production of
 latent or interrupted life. Here I invoke Derrida in discussion of how in
 the investigation of the fatal brain disease kuru, the partible tissues of
 the Fore people of Papua New Guinea became frozen spectral commodities in
 the exchange regimes of modern biomedical science - and how they gained,
 or retained, value as they were objectified. I follow these Fore - or kuru
 - valuables into the frozen archive, asking what has become of the
 remainder, whether it now amounts to anything more than defrosting debris
 among the postcolonial ruins. I ask what is the value of latent life? Or,
 rather, who is the value of latent life? This essay therefore serves as a
 supplement to more economistic estimates of biovalue.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 379-387 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.890637 
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Author-Name: Marina Vishmidt 
Author-X-Name-First: Marina 
Author-X-Name-Last: Vishmidt 
Title: Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 388-397 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.982151 
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Author-Name: Paul Du Gay 
Author-X-Name-First: Paul 
Author-X-Name-Last: Du Gay 
Title: Organization (Theory) As A Way Of Life 
Abstract:
 To the extent that 'classical organization theory' is seen to possess any
 enduring interest it is mainly as a historic artefact. The idea that the
 principles, axioms, adages and devices elaborated by its proponents any
 longer possess traction in the present is rarely countenanced. In contrast
 to this customary view, the present article seeks to indicate the
 continuing significance of classical organization theory, for both
 analysing and intervening in organizational life. This necessitates a
 reconstruction of the conventional understanding of this received term,
 one in which classical organization theory is viewed less as 'theory' in
 the conventional sense, but rather as a geographically dispersed,
 institutionally disconnected and historically discontinuous 'stance',
 characterized, inter alia, by a pragmatist call to experience, an
 antithetical attitude to 'high' or transcendental theorizing, and, not
 least, an ethical focus on organizational effectiveness born of a close
 connection to 'the work itself' or 'the situation at hand'. Deploying the
 term 'classic organization theory' in this way, to refer to a stance,
 attitude or comportment, and an associated persona that bears it, we are
 able to highlight the significant differences between this comportment and
 the increasingly 'metaphysical' attitude characterizing many contemporary
 approaches to organization and organizing, not simply in organization
 studies, but also more widely in sociology and cultural economy.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 399-417 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1040642 
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Author-Name: Signe Vikkelsø 
Author-X-Name-First: Signe 
Author-X-Name-Last: Vikkelsø 
Title: Core task and organizational reality 
Abstract:
 Reflecting a wider trend in the social sciences, the field of organization
 studies has adopted an increasingly general and metaphysical vocabulary to
 guide and frame its analyses of life and dynamics in organizations. Where
 classic organizational analyses would describe organizations in terms of
 core objects such as 'task' and 'coordination,' contemporary organization
 studies emphasize, much like other social science disciplines, broader
 topics such as 'network,' 'identity,' and 'change.' The paper argues that
 this altered focus and vocabulary is accompanied by a diminished ability
 to specify and intervene into the practical reality of organizations. It
 further argues that a discipline's core objects are not anachronisms to be
 discarded with, but crucial for specifying reality in ways that have
 proven practically relevant and still are.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 418-438 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.954596 
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Author-Name: Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth 
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lopdrup-Hjorth 
Title: Object and objective lost? 
Abstract:
 This paper explores the erosion and problematization of 'the organization'
 as a demarcated entity. Utilizing Foucault's reflections on 'state-phobia'
 as a source of inspiration, I show how an organization-phobia has gained a
 hold within Organization Theory (OT). By attending to the history of this
 organization-phobia, the paper argues that OT has become increasingly
 incapable of speaking about its core object. I show how organizations went
 from being conceptualized as entities of major importance to becoming
 theoretically deconstructed and associated with all kinds of ills. Through
 this history, organizations as distinct entities have been rendered so
 problematic that they have gradually come to be removed from the center of
 OT. The costs of this have been rather significant. Besides undermining
 the grounds that gave OT intellectual credibility and legitimacy to begin
 with, the organization-phobia resulting from this history has been
 implicated in dismantling organizations, and in making OT progressively
 irrelevant to a wider public.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 439-461 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.989883 
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Author-Name: Martin Wood 
Author-X-Name-First: Martin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Wood 
Title: Audio-visual production and shortcomings of distribution in organisation studies 
Abstract:
 This article considers the relation of audio-visual media to research in
 organisation studies, a scholarly market of the cultural economy. Guided
 theoretically by affect, audio-visual media place emphasis on mental and
 physical sensations that most organisation studies research, whether
 objective or subjective, tends to overlook or only imply. Too often,
 underlying disciplinary assumptions impose controls that are incompatible
 with the transmission of affect. Now, it is the case that those who have
 accumulated cultural capital within the field privilege conventions
 already found in the logic of the printed word. At issue is the
 implication that the culture of print effectually suppresses
 experimentation with audio-visual media as an alternative form of
 presentation. To illustrate the problem, I draw on first-hand experience
 of efforts to establish the research contribution of a short film.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 462-478 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.942346 
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Author-Name: Bregje van Eekelen 
Author-X-Name-First: Bregje 
Author-X-Name-Last: van Eekelen 
Title: Knowledge for the West, Production for the Rest? 
Abstract:
 This article develops the argument that a 'knowledge economy,' despite its
 cheerful optimism, is also an elegant incarnation of the demise of Western
 economies. An analysis of policy documents, research statements, and
 national accounts reveals this paradoxical coexistence of anxiety and
 progress in the discourse on knowledge economies. While the concept is
 often hailed as a temporal concept (superseding other forms of economic
 production), this article argues that a knowledge economy is best
 understood as a spatial concept - it is a way of contending with global
 reorganizations of production. This spatial approach is elaborated to
 tackle three paradoxes. (1) A knowledge economy enfolds defeat with
 progress. (2) A knowledge economy downplays the importance of industrial
 labor and simultaneously depends on it to materialize its ideas. (3) While
 seemingly intangible and ephemeral, a knowledge economy is fixed in place
 in national economies through government and corporate policy (including
 through the emergent phenomenon of 'knowledge-adjusted gross domestic
 products'). A spatial approach provides a view of the tenuous global
 interconnections and specific conditions that prop up a knowledge economy,
 and shows how the concept is mobilized to redraw the map so that
 endangered economies can regain their challenged sense of centrality in a
 world economy.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 479-500 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.909367 
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Author-Name: John H. Hanson 
Author-X-Name-First: John H. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hanson 
Title: The Anthropology of Giving: Toward A Cultural Logic of Charity 
Abstract:
 Modern elite charity is class-centered and exclusionary, employing
 charitable exchange ritual, like the primitive potlatch, for structured
 loss and exchange, both affirming and concealing status and power,
 obfuscating yet illuminating privilege. Traditional models of charitable
 giving are often Eurocentric and monocultural, employing a market
 model-based 'exchange theory' assuming that giving is a series of dyadic,
 reciprocated 'purchases' by donors seeking maximum utility. Looking at
 modern charitable giving as a 'total social fact' (Mauss) we can detect
 patterns behind elite charitable giving that make seeming relinquishment
 of wealth a declaration of power. Nonprofits are embedded in these
 dynamics as the elite gift economy expresses itself through modern
 charitable giving.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 501-520 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.949284 
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Author-Name: Georgios Papadopoulos 
Author-X-Name-First: Georgios 
Author-X-Name-Last: Papadopoulos 
Title: Currency and the Collective Representations of Authority, Nationality, and Value 
Abstract:
 Mainstream economics has consistently ignored the iconography of currency,
 describing money 'just' as a commodity. The paper is going to investigate
 the economic and political significance of the representations of
 authority and nationality in currency describing how these representation
 support its acceptability. The aim of the analysis is double: to decipher
 the visual identity of currency and its contribution to the acceptance of
 money in day-to-day transactions, as well as to discuss the operational
 principles of the monetary system as they are uncovered in the iconography
 of money. By answering these questions, the paper is going to trace the
 theoretical presuppositions and the cultural stereotypes that inform the
 representation of economic value and national identity as they are
 articulated in banknotes and coins with a specific emphasis on the
 European Monetary Union and the recent financial crisis that is still
 affecting its periphery.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 521-534 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.989884 
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Author-Name: Endre Dányi 
Author-X-Name-First: Endre 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dányi 
Title: How do words count? 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 535-537 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.985333 
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Author-Name: Christian Frankel 
Author-X-Name-First: Christian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Frankel 
Title: The multiple-markets problem 
Abstract:
 Only few studies in the field of new new economic sociology deal with a
 simultaneity of multiple markets in the analysis. One central explanation
 of this situation is limitations inherent in the new new economic
 sociology. In this review essay I address such limitations as a way to
 develop research further.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 538-546 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.989885 
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Author-Name: Carolyn Hardin 
Author-X-Name-First: Carolyn 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hardin 
Author-Name: Adam Richard Rottinghaus 
Author-X-Name-First: Adam Richard 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rottinghaus 
Title: Introducing a cultural approach to technology in financial markets 
Abstract:
 This paper offers a cultural approach to technology as an alternative to
 what we see as a prevailing treatment of technology in social studies of
 finance. This latter treatment, which we refer to as the 'tools of
 coordination' approach, sees technologies as mediators of market behavior
 that promote standardization and coordination. While this may be one
 important function of some technologies, taking a cultural approach to
 studying financial technologies highlights other important aspects of
 financial activity - in particular profit making. Instead of focusing
 primarily on how technologies coordinate market behavior, we focus on how
 technologies enable profit-making practices, in particular arbitrage. In
 two different case studies, one examining arbitrage between stock
 exchanges during the late nineteenth century and the other focusing on
 contemporary high-frequency trading, we employ the cultural approach to
 technology. We find that while new technologies do eventually promote
 greater coordination in financial markets, they are initially deployed for
 the opposite purpose, to produce what we call network differentials that
 allow some to profit at the expense of others.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 547-563 
Issue: 5 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 10 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.993683 
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Author-Name: Pieter Lagerwaard 
Author-X-Name-First: Pieter 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lagerwaard 
Title: Negotiating Global Finance 
Abstract:
 This paper delineates how stockbrokers in Mumbai negotiate (contest,
 reconcile and appropriate) global finance. In recent years, the social
 studies of finance have grown profoundly, enhancing our understanding of
 finance across disciplinary boundaries. However, the way in which global
 finance is practised by local stockbrokers in non-western financial
 markets has received minor attention. Even though the Mumbai financial
 market is comparatively small, it is an instructive case due to a
 transition of financial practices over the previous two decades. Despite
 these rapid changes, the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the oldest exchange
 in India, and its 'traditional' brokers remain active and relatively
 influential. Drawing on present-day experiences as well as historical
 recollections of BSE stockbrokers, this article shows that global finance
 is not an unambiguous or predictable force, but instead negotiated and
 thus actively shaped by local stockbrokers.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 564-581 
Issue: 5 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 10 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1045427 
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Author-Name: Russell Prince 
Author-X-Name-First: Russell 
Author-X-Name-Last: Prince 
Title: Economies of Expertise: Consultants and the Assemblage of Culture 
Abstract:
 Consultants have emerged as significant actors in the assembling of
 culture after neoliberalism. This paper considers their role in the
 assemblage of the British subsidised cultural sector as part of the
 assembling of culture more generally. In particular, it is concerned with
 the status of consultants as private sector actors, which differentiates
 them from other forms of expertise that tend to be located in the state
 apparatus, in that they must earn money to resource their work and remain
 solvent. By placing their work of assemblage in relation to this
 imperative, we can understand the difference it makes. Based on a close
 study of a London cultural consultancy, it is argued that specific
 governmental and managerial trends send trajectories of value through the
 assemblage which the networked consultants attempt to control and capture.
 These economies have seen consultants contribute to the broad shift in the
 assemblage of culture from something that occupied a distinctive sphere
 requiring protection from the ravages of the market to a potential
 contributor to economic and social development.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 582-596 
Issue: 5 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 10 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.974654 
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Author-Name: Michele F. Fontefrancesco 
Author-X-Name-First: Michele F. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Fontefrancesco 
Title: Invisible Presences and Visible Absences 
Abstract:
 Since 2008, Valenza, one of the World's largest jewellery production
 centres, has experienced a period of profound economic uncertainty. In
 four years, about a third of the jobs and workshops of the city were lost.
 The paper investigates the practices and the form of knowledge Valenza
 people used to speak and understand the crisis. While economic data were
 marginally known by the population, the crisis emerged in the words of
 Valenzani as a visual experience of the city landscape. 'Invisible
 presence' and 'visible absence' emerged as the fundamental keywords used
 by the community to describe the industry, its normality and change. The
 paper investigates these concepts, indicating the analysis of the
 sensorial experience and its rhetoric expression as a rich ground for an
 alternative, human understanding of economy. In so doing, it aims at aim
 at providing an example of a possible different way of writing economy
 that does not starts from econometric data, but from the very perception
 of the social life and space as experienced by its actors.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 597-612 
Issue: 5 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 10 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.974656 
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Author-Name: Kathleen Cummings 
Author-X-Name-First: Kathleen 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cummings 
Title: Introduction to the <italic>Blessed</italic> Review Symposium 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 613-615 
Issue: 5 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 10 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.993685 
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Author-Name: David F. Ruccio 
Author-X-Name-First: David F. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruccio 
Title: American Hustle 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 616-623 
Issue: 5 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 10 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.982147 
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Author-Name: Heath W. Carter 
Author-X-Name-First: Heath W. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Carter 
Title: Reprehensible or Representative? The Gospel of Wealth in Modern American Life 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 624-629 
Issue: 5 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 10 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.982148 
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Author-Name: Kate Bowler 
Author-X-Name-First: Kate 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bowler 
Title: Daily Grind: The Spiritual Workday of the American Prosperity Gospel 
Abstract:
 This paper responds to two common questions surrounding the controversy of
 the American prosperity gospel: what kind of work is the prosperity gospel
 and who does it benefit? I argue that the movement contains both heavily
 supernatural approaches and deeply pragmatic responses to the market.
 Further, its wealthy preachers are the most direct beneficiaries and the
 focus of the debate over the movement's claims.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 630-636 
Issue: 5 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 10 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.982150 
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Author-Name: E. Gulledge 
Author-X-Name-First: E. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Gulledge 
Author-Name: P. Roscoe 
Author-X-Name-First: P. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Roscoe 
Author-Name: B. Townley 
Author-X-Name-First: B. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Townley 
Title: Economizing Habitus 
Abstract:
 Pierre Bourdieu's classical sociology and the actor network-based
 'economization' literature are often considered contradictory, despite
 some agreement on the constructed nature of economic man. Through an
 examination of the publishing industry, we argue that Bourdieu's concept
 of habitus may offer a useful contribution to the literature on
 economization. We examine how those new to a field come to understand
 their position and the role of material devices in structuring this. We
 argue that Bourdieu's theory, appropriately stated, sheds light on the
 tacit assessments made by market agents alongside their involvement in
 network-based calculative mechanisms and allows studies of markets to deal
 with some persistent criticisms of the economization programme.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 637-654 
Issue: 6 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1047785 
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Author-Name: Bartholomew Paudyn 
Author-X-Name-First: Bartholomew 
Author-X-Name-Last: Paudyn 
Title: The Struggle to Perform the Political Economy of Creditworthiness 
Abstract:
 Analysing the European Union's regulatory response in the wake of the
 credit and sovereign debt crises, this paper argues how its adoption of
 risk management as the core strategy for governing the credit ratings
 space may undermine European efforts to rebalance the growing asymmetry
 between private expertise and public democracy. While centralised
 oversight, enhanced transparency and restorative, technical intervention
 seem like sound regulatory initiatives, I problematise the methodologies,
 models and assumptions of sovereign ratings to show how the new ratings
 framework may actually impede the ability of the technocratic European
 Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) to redress the most egregious
 deficiencies of ratings. Drawing on the performativity of market
 relations, the paper argues how ESMA's supervisory conflicts undermine the
 EU's capacity to perform an alternative political economy of limits.
 Neither is it democratically sanctioned to interfere in the analytical
 substance of ratings nor should it distort the social facticity of
 creditworthiness by relying primarily on quantitative risk analysis, ESMA
 will be forced to either repoliticise the ratings process or promote the
 status quo, which diminishes fiscal sovereignty.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 655-672 
Issue: 6 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1062792 
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Author-Name: William A. Jackson 
Author-X-Name-First: William A. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Jackson 
Title: Distributive Justice With and Without Culture 
Abstract:
 Academic treatments of distributive justice normally adopt a static
 approach centred on resource allocation among a set of individual agents.
 The resulting models, expressed in mathematical language, make no
 allowance for culture, as they never engage with the society's way of life
 or the moulding of individuals within society. This paper compares the
 static approach to distributive justice with a cultural one, arguing that
 a case for redistribution should rest upon its cultural effects in
 assisting well-being and social cohesion. Unless we recognise culture, we
 can have little understanding of why inequalities matter, where they come
 from, and how they might be reduced. Redistribution may be motivated by
 universal value judgements taken from external sources, but it also
 entails internal cultural changes that refashion social relations through
 cumulative causation. In practical terms, it has to penetrate beyond
 reallocating resource endowments to bring revised attitudes in a society
 less tolerant of unequal outcomes. Egalitarian reforms will flourish only
 if they generate and reflect an egalitarian culture.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 673-688 
Issue: 6 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1054414 
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Author-Name: Ronan Le Velly 
Author-X-Name-First: Ronan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Le Velly 
Author-Name: Frédéric Goulet 
Author-X-Name-First: Frédéric 
Author-X-Name-Last: Goulet 
Title: Revisiting the Importance of Detachment in the Dynamics of Competition 
Abstract:
 In this paper, we adopt the framework of analysis of the economy of
 qualities [Callon, M., Méadel, C. & Rabeharisoa, V. (2002) 'The economy of
 qualities', <italic>Economy and Society</italic>, vol. 31, no. 2, pp.
 194-217] to describe the sales and marketing practices of a French farm
 supply company whose products have uncertain characteristics and disputed
 effects. We show that this uncertainty leads sales staff of the company to
 develop an argument designed to generate attachments but also, and even
 more importantly, detachments. We also show that these detachments and
 attachments do not just concern the farmer, the company and its products.
 To understand the competitive dynamics involved here, it is also necessary
 to focus on the associations that are broken and established with natural
 entities, actors in the supply chain, institutions of agricultural science
 and conceptions of the farming profession.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 689-704 
Issue: 6 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1051489 
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Author-Name: Emma Cardwell 
Author-X-Name-First: Emma 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cardwell 
Title: Power and Performativity in the Creation of the UK Fishing-Rights Market 
Abstract:
 Judith Butler's work on performativity takes an explicitly Foucauldian
 approach to politics. The economic performativity literature, in
 comparison, has been criticised for failing to foreground power. This
 paper uses a case study of market creation in UK marine fisheries to
 suggest, after Butler, ways in which a Foucauldian analysis of the
 exercise of power can inform our understanding of economic performativity.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 705-720 
Issue: 6 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1050441 
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Author-Name: Stefan Schwarzkopf 
Author-X-Name-First: Stefan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Schwarzkopf 
Title: Cultural Economy, Capitalism and the Logic of the Public Sphere 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 721-729 
Issue: 6 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.949285 
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Author-Name: Aeron Davis 
Author-X-Name-First: Aeron 
Author-X-Name-Last: Davis 
Title: Response to Stefan Schwarzkopf's Review Essay 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 730-733 
Issue: 6 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.982153 
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Author-Name: Joanna Figiel 
Author-X-Name-First: Joanna 
Author-X-Name-Last: Figiel 
Title: Theorizing Cultural Work: Labour, Continuity and Change in the Cultural and Creative Industries 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 734-737 
Issue: 6 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.989886 
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Author-Name: Jamie Woodcock 
Author-X-Name-First: Jamie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Woodcock 
Title: Co-Creating Videogames 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 738-740 
Issue: 6 
Volume: 8 
Year: 2015 
Month: 12 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1009147 
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Author-Name: Melinda Cooper 
Author-X-Name-First: Melinda 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cooper 
Author-Name: Martijn Konings 
Author-X-Name-First: Martijn 
Author-X-Name-Last: Konings 
Title: Pragmatics of Money and Finance: Beyond Performativity and Fundamental Value 
Abstract:
 Contemporary approaches to finance as diverse as performativity theory and
 Marxist value-form theory have a tendency to lapse into a dogmatic
 structuralism that merely replicates the orthodoxies of financial
 economics. These approaches are unable to account for the possibility of
 either systemic failure or historical rupture in the organization of
 financial markets. This introduction considers several possible ways of
 exiting this impasse and presents an overview of the papers in this
 special issue.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 1-4 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1117516 
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Author-Name: Douglas R. Holmes 
Author-X-Name-First: Douglas R. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Holmes 
Title: Public Currency: Anthropological Labor in Central Banks 
Abstract:
 This article examines the operation of an emerging monetary regime in
 which &#x2018;mere words&#x2019;, as Yellen, Janet (2013.
 &#x2018;Communications in Monetary Policy.&#x2019; Speech presented at the
 Society of American Business Editors and Writers 50th Anniversary
 Conference, Washington, DC, April 4) recently noted, play a decisive role.
 Drawing on my field research in five central banks -- the Reserve Bank of
 New Zealand, the Bundesbank, the Bank of England, the Riksbank, and the
 European Central Bank -- I address how this regime, which I term a
 &#x2018;public currency&#x2019;, works in theory and practice and what is
 at stake in its regulation and management. At the heart of this regime is
 a far-reaching premise: the public must be broadly recruited to
 collaborate with central banks in achieving the ends of monetary policy,
 namely &#x2018;stable prices and confidence in the currency&#x2019;. I
 further argue that monetary policy is now being aligned overtly with
 public interests, interests that are not fully or necessarily reducible to
 the prerogatives of finance or the interests of financial markets.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 5-26 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1068700 
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Author-Name: Dick Bryan 
Author-X-Name-First: Dick 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bryan 
Author-Name: Michael Rafferty 
Author-X-Name-First: Michael 
Author-X-Name-Last: Rafferty 
Title: Decomposing Money: Ontological options and spreads 
Abstract:
 Debates about the nature and origin of the social foundations of money can
 have no closure. There is a range of credible, but sometimes inconsistent,
 positions. This paper conjectures that the framing of debates is itself
 precluding the recognition that these &#x2018;foundations&#x2019; are
 themselves conjuncturally specific. At critical historical points of
 monetary crisis or innovation, it is the divergence between theories that
 gives analytical potence, for it reveals different aspects of social
 instability and change. Hence, the paper frames theories of the social
 foundations of money as presenting &#x2018;ontological spreads&#x2019;
 which are generally quite narrow but widen at critical times when the
 social foundations of money show instability.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 27-42 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.993684 
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Author-Name: Leigh Claire La Berge 
Author-X-Name-First: Leigh Claire 
Author-X-Name-Last: La Berge 
Title: How to Make Money with Words: Finance, Performativity, Language 
Abstract:
 In this article, I consider how descriptions of finance since the
 2007--2008 credit crisis have offered a new template of representation for
 value and its changing valences, both theoretical and aesthetic. My
 particular concern is social scientific writing about the crisis that
 might be grouped loosely under the rubric of
 &#x2018;performativity&#x2019;, namely the argument that models (or
 representations, either mathematic or linguistic) produce markets, and
 that markets are best studied through ethnographic observation. I ask why
 language, performance and metaphor itself -- what was once the province of
 a more literary tradition -- have become a methodological tool for social
 scientists now in their particular investigations of finance. I suggest
 that a more complete analysis of finance may be located if economic
 performativity and aesthetic theories of performance are brought into
 dialogue. In part one, I read the ethnographic work of Donald MacKenzie,
 most centrally, as well as that of Janet Roitman, both of whom have
 isolated some literary problem of the economy: performativity and
 narrative, respectively. In the second section, I look at a series of
 artists and theorists of performance who might be understood to offer a
 critique of the relationship between language, money and performativity.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 43-62 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1040435 
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Author-Name: Ute Tellmann 
Author-X-Name-First: Ute 
Author-X-Name-Last: Tellmann 
Title: Historical Ontologies of Uncertainty and Money: Rethinking the Current Critique of Finance 
Abstract:
 This article examines how the notion of uncertainty is used as a tool of
 critique in the context of financial crises. It counters the prevalent
 tendency to understand uncertainty solely in terms of an epistemological
 limit to knowledge. Uncertainty should rather be seen in the context of
 different historical ontologies of money and economic subjectivity. The
 article uses a historical analysis to make its point. It investigates two
 discourses on uncertainty in the context of financial crisis that are
 usually not properly distinguished: the role of uncertainty for debating
 the financial crisis in the 1930s and since 2008. While in the first case
 the financial future was defined in terms of a potential that needs to be
 seized and materialized by a subject that is able to posit its will
 through time, the current appeal to uncertainty depicts the future as a
 catastrophe that needs to be survived and feared by the subject. Each
 notion of uncertainty gives rise to very different regulatory responses.
 The article discusses these historical findings in regard to the critical
 hopes pinned on the notion of uncertainty.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 63-85 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.999104 
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Author-Name: Martijn Konings 
Author-X-Name-First: Martijn 
Author-X-Name-Last: Konings 
Title: The Spirit of Austerity 
Abstract:
 Existing interpretations of the current resurgence of austerity discourses
 tend to attribute this to a failure to learn the lessons of the financial
 crisis. The picture of a return to neoliberal business-as-usual, however,
 sits uneasily with the popular discontent and democratic energies
 unleashed by the crisis. Indeed, in the USA it is precisely the
 mobilization of populist forces that has been a driving force behind the
 turn to austerity. The paper seeks to shed light on this paradoxical
 connection through a selective genealogy of economy that foregrounds its
 theological content. Economy is conceptualized as a paradoxical logic of
 governance, capable of organizing authority and belief in a secularized
 context that rejects the idolatrous worship of mundane signs. Austerity is
 not merely or primarily a &#x2018;wrong policy&#x2019; but an article of
 faith, holding out a promise of purification that commands considerable
 ethical appeal and mobilizational capacity.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 86-100 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1054415 
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Author-Name: Radman Selmic 
Author-X-Name-First: Radman 
Author-X-Name-Last: Selmic 
Title: An Inspiring Guide for de-Ontologizing the Crisis 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 101-104 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.982149 
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Author-Name: Sarah Hall 
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah 
Author-X-Name-Last: Hall 
Title: Liquidity Lost 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 105-107 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1040437 
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Author-Name: Amin Samman 
Author-X-Name-First: Amin 
Author-X-Name-Last: Samman 
Title: The specter of capital 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 108-114 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1100650 
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Author-Name: Quinn DuPont 
Author-X-Name-First: Quinn 
Author-X-Name-Last: DuPont 
Title: The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 115-119 
Issue: 1 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 2 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1083459 
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Author-X-Name-First: Philip 
Author-X-Name-Last: Roscoe 
Author-Name: Barbara Townley 
Author-X-Name-First: Barbara 
Author-X-Name-Last: Townley 
Title: Unsettling issues: valuing public goods and the production of matters of concern 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 121-126 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1107852 
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Author-Name: Dave O'Brien 
Author-X-Name-First: Dave 
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Brien 
Title: What price evidence? The ethics of office and the ethics of social science in British cultural policy 
Abstract:
 This paper considers the use of evidence for government decision-making
 using ethnographically informed data from the lived experiences of those
 involved in British cultural policy. It does this in order to engage and
 extend work that has sought to defend bureaucratic forms of activity. The
 paper offers an empirical case study of how the civil servants&#x2019;
 ethic of office [DuGay, P. (2008) &#x2018;Max weber and the moral economy
 of office&#x2019;, <italic>Journal of Cultural Economy</italic>, vol. 1,
 no. 2, pp. 129--144] is reinforced by the identity of the social
 scientist. The use of social science in policy advice is a moment where
 the bureaucrats are able to distance themselves from political
 decision-making, thus reasserting an important aspect of civil service
 practice and identity. However, as the latter part of the article
 illustrates, the dynamics of cultural policy-making, in particular the use
 of economics, situate the role of social science as paradoxical. It is
 both supportive and corrosive of the bureaucratic ethic. This paradox is
 the basis for a critical perspective on the ethic of office as deployed in
 contemporary government.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 127-140 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1100649 
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Author-Name: Liliana Doganova 
Author-X-Name-First: Liliana 
Author-X-Name-Last: Doganova 
Author-Name: Brice Laurent 
Author-X-Name-First: Brice 
Author-X-Name-Last: Laurent 
Title: Keeping things different: coexistence within European markets for cleantech and biofuels 
Abstract:
 Environmental policy increasingly resorts to market-based instruments in
 order to meet sustainability objectives. The &#x2018;carbon market&#x2019;
 instituted by the European Emissions Trading directive from 2003 is a
 canonical example, which has been described, and critiqued, as a
 delegation of policy objectives to market exchanges. In this paper, we
 examine the complex ways in which the operationalization of policy
 objectives and the organization of markets are intertwined, focusing on
 two other examples of European environmental regulation. The first one is
 the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control directive from 1996, which
 defined the &#x2018;best available techniques&#x2019; to curb emissions in
 air, water and soil. The second one is the Renewable Energy Directive from
 2009, which introduced criteria for the definition of the sustainability
 of biofuels. Through the analysis of the design and implementation of
 these two directives, we identify a central concern for the coexistence of
 various objects, and various initiatives undertaken by European
 institutions, member states and private actors. We use the notion of
 coexistence to describe a European political and economic ordering that is
 inherently hybrid, and cannot be reduced to a mere delegation of policy
 objectives to the market, or a legal constraint imposed on all European
 actors. It grounds its political legitimacy and economic rationality on
 the distribution of roles and responsibilities across public and private
 actors, and on the ability to &#x2018;keep things different&#x2019;
 according to local variabilities.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 141-156 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1110530 
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Author-Name: Claes-Fredrik Helgesson 
Author-X-Name-First: Claes-Fredrik 
Author-X-Name-Last: Helgesson 
Author-Name: Francis Lee 
Author-X-Name-First: Francis 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee 
Author-Name: Lisa Lind&#xe9;n 
Author-X-Name-First: Lisa 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lind&#xe9;n 
Title: Valuations of experimental designs in proteomic biomarker experiments and traditional randomised controlled trials 
Abstract:
 This article examines the shifting conditions for biomedical knowledge
 production by studying trends in the design of biomedical experiments. The
 basic premise of the study is that the very act of establishing a research
 design entails a process involving a series of valuations where different
 values are evoked, ordered, and displaced. In focus is the articulation
 and ordering of what counts as central values in research design for two
 kinds of biomedical treatment trials, namely the traditional randomised
 controlled trial (RCT) and the emerging new form of biomarker trials used
 to assess biomarker/treatment combinations (BTTs). The empirical material
 consists of textbooks (RCTs) and journal articles (BTTs). We ask how these
 materials articulate the various scientific, medical, and economic values
 at play. Among the differences uncovered are a difference in relation to
 what counts as ethical in relation to prior knowledge, differences in the
 flexibility in design as well as the valuation of the risk for false
 positives and false negatives. More broadly, the study shows how textual
 accounts of <italic>different ways of producing knowledge</italic> are
 linked to partly <italic>different valuations</italic> of ethics,
 flexibility, and risk as part of establishing the research design of
 biomedical experiments.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 157-172 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1108215 
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Author-Name: Anders Ravn S&#xf8;rensen 
Author-X-Name-First: Anders Ravn 
Author-X-Name-Last: S&#xf8;rensen 
Title: Monetary organization and national identity: a review and considerations 
Abstract:
 This article develops a detailed overview of literature on the
 relationship between monetary organization, understood as currencies and
 central banks, and issues of national identity and nationalism. It
 demonstrates how the literature on this subject for the past 20 years has
 developed into a distinct research field and the article sketches a set of
 different methodological approaches as well as geographical and thematical
 variations within the field. In particular, the overview points to a
 recent shift in focus from a preoccupation with the identity-cultivating
 qualities of monetary organization to an emphasis on how collective
 identities legitimize monetary organization. Based on the literature
 review, the article points to two underdeveloped themes for future
 research to investigate: (1) further studies on the interrelation between
 the legitimacy of monetary organization and national identity, (2) an
 increased focus on central banks and monetary authorities, as well as the
 historical development in which monetary organization evolved in concert
 with ideas of the national identity and nationalism.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 173-185 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1067827 
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Author-Name: Emil Holland 
Author-X-Name-First: Emil 
Author-X-Name-Last: Holland 
Author-Name: Chris Kjeldsen 
Author-X-Name-First: Chris 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kjeldsen 
Author-Name: S&#xf8;ren Kerndrup 
Author-X-Name-First: S&#xf8;ren 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kerndrup 
Title: Coordinating quality practices in Direct Trade coffee 
Abstract:
 Over the past few decades, many food niches have emerged with a specific
 focus on quality. In specialty coffee, micro roasters have brought about
 Direct Trade coffee as a way of organising an alternative around new
 tastes and qualities through ongoing and &#x2018;direct&#x2019; relations
 to farmers and cooperatives. But Direct Trade also involves exporters. We
 ask, how do exporters and roasters work together in these new coffee
 relations, and what do they work on? We observe and participate in a
 situation where Colombian coffee exporters visit Danish roasters. They
 tour the roasting facilities and taste a number of coffees. Often, the
 term power is used to analyse such value chain interactions, but we argue
 that the term coordination better opens up these interactions for
 exploration and analysis. What emerges is a coordination of quality.
 Through touring and tasting, issues emerge and differences are laid out.
 We learn that quality is a continuous achievement. There is friction
 between the ways in which the roasters and exporters do quality, but these
 are not done away with through power. They are made known and discussable
 through the work of coordination. The activity of tasting quality is a
 coordination device that allows for bringing out differences in how
 quality is done in practice. Coffee, in this event, is not a fixed object,
 but shifts as issues of quality are brought up in tasting. This suggests a
 decentering of the object on the issue of quality.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 186-196 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1069205 
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Author-Name: Elena Raviola 
Author-X-Name-First: Elena 
Author-X-Name-Last: Raviola 
Author-Name: Paola Dubini 
Author-X-Name-First: Paola 
Author-X-Name-Last: Dubini 
Title: The logic of practice in the practice of logics: practicing journalism and its relationship with business in times of technological changes 
Abstract:
 This paper investigates the workings of institutional logics in practice,
 by focusing in particular on the interplay between material, practical and
 linguistic dimensions of practices. In other words, drawing on Bourdieu's
 <italic>sens pratique,</italic> the paper explores the logic of practice
 in the practice of logics through a six months full-time ethnographic
 study at <italic>Il Sole-24 Ore,</italic> the largest Italian financial
 newspaper, between 2007 and 2008. An original conceptual framework is
 developed to analyse how the logic of journalism is enacted vis-&#xe0;-vis
 that of advertising in a setting in which an old technology for news
 production -- print newspaper -- coexists with a new one -- website -- and
 thus encounters between new and old technological possibilities make
 workings of institutional logics particularly visible. The findings point
 out different mechanisms of institutional work dealing with actions that,
 made possible by new technological possibilities, are potentially, but not
 necessarily classified as divergent from institutional logics.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 197-213 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1103773 
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Author-Name: Rainer Diaz-Bone 
Author-X-Name-First: Rainer 
Author-X-Name-Last: Diaz-Bone 
Title: Convention theory and neoliberalism 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 214-220 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1083879 
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Author-Name: Jessica Pykett 
Author-X-Name-First: Jessica 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pykett 
Title: Happiness as Enterprise. An essay on neoliberal life 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 221-222 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1039047 
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Author-Name: Miranda J. M. Iossifidis 
Author-X-Name-First: Miranda J. M. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Iossifidis 
Title: Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 223-225 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1050442 
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Author-Name: Sarah Marie Ruggins 
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah Marie 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruggins 
Title: A History of Econometrics: The Reformation from the 1970s 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 226-228 
Issue: 2 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 4 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1009148 
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Author-Name: Sveta Milyaeva 
Author-X-Name-First: Sveta 
Author-X-Name-Last: Milyaeva 
Author-Name: Daniel Neyland 
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel 
Author-X-Name-Last: Neyland 
Title: Market innovation as framing, productive friction and bricolage: an exploration of the personal data market 
Abstract:
 This paper explores the possibilities offered by recent Science and
 Technology Studies (STS) research on markets for engaging with market
 innovation. Although there exist few reflections on how innovation happens
 in markets, market innovation has not been singularly theorized in
 STS-inspired market studies. In this paper, we explore the potential
 analytic utility of different sets of ideas in the field of market
 studies, such as &#x2018;framing&#x2019; [Callon, M. (1998)
 &#x2018;Introduction: the embeddedness of economic markets in
 economics&#x2019;, in <italic>The Laws of Markets</italic>, ed. M. Callon,
 Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 1--57; Callon, M. (2007) &#x2018;An essay on the
 growing contribution of economic markets to the proliferation of the
 social&#x2019;, <italic>Theory, Culture & Society</italic>, vol. 24, no.
 7--8, pp. 136--163], &#x2018;productive friction&#x2019; [Stark, D. (2009)
 <italic>The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic
 Life</italic>, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ] and
 &#x2018;bricolage&#x2019; [MacKenzie, D. & Pardo-Guerra, J. P. (2014)
 &#x2018;Insurgent capitalism: Island, bricolage and the re-making of
 finance&#x2019;, <italic>Economy and Society</italic>, vol. 43, no. 2, pp.
 153--182]. Drawing on our research into the online personal data industry
 and start-ups developing personal data control products, we put together
 five sensibilities that we think are of use for broader considerations of
 market innovation.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 229-244 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1135473 
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Author-Name: John Hogan Morris 
Author-X-Name-First: John Hogan 
Author-X-Name-Last: Morris 
Title: The performativity, performance and lively practices in financial stability press conferences 
Abstract:
 Contributing to current debates about financial performativity, this
 article seeks to explore the multiple and overlapping layers of
 performativity within central banking. The specific focus is upon the
 press conferences of the Bank of England, which coincide with the release
 of their Financial Stability Reports and results of their stress testing
 exercises. Three positions in the debate about financial performativity
 are identified and outlined -- namely, &#x2018;Austinian&#x2019;,
 &#x2018;generic&#x2019;, and &#x2018;layered&#x2019; performativities.
 Analysis of the transcripts and video footage of the press conferences
 shows that both Austinian and Generic performativity are at work in the
 &#x2018;layered performances&#x2019; of financial stability by the Bank:
 the manner in which technical devices affect the economy intersects with
 the way reiterative practices bring about the effect they name. Moreover,
 drawing on the writings of Derrida, Deleuze and Sedgwick on iterability,
 difference and performativity, the article analyses the disruption,
 creativity and drama that is also present in the central bank's press
 conferences. The ostensible production of financial stability by the Bank
 is thus shown to draw attention to an additional layer of financial
 performativity that has been previously neglected in cultural economy
 research -- that which I group together under the umbrella term of
 &#x2018;lively practices&#x2019;.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 245-260 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1136831 
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Author-Name: Mark Kear 
Author-X-Name-First: Mark 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kear 
Title: Peer lending and the subsumption of the informal 
Abstract:
 The informal financial practices of financially &#x2018;excluded&#x2019;
 groups in the United States are being enrolled in a regulatory project to
 make new markets and produce financially self-sufficient subjects on the
 edges of the financial system. Drawing on mixed-methods qualitative
 research working with nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area, this paper
 explores how informal rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs)
 are being repurposed and formalized to make the risks of financially
 excluded groups legible, tractable and priceable for
 &#x2018;mainstream&#x2019; financial service providers. In so doing, the
 paper explores how the credit score orders practices and relations that
 are &#x2018;outside&#x2019; of the &#x2018;financial mainstream&#x2019;.
 While others have documented how the efforts of NGOs to marketize and
 commodify the social networks and cultural practices of the poor result in
 forms of dispossession, this is not what my research finds. Instead, I
 show how formalized ROSCAs are redistributing calculative agency, and
 enabling financially underserved groups to exert strategic control over
 the calculation of their credit scores.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 261-276 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1135472 
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Author-Name: Jesper Blomberg 
Author-X-Name-First: Jesper 
Author-X-Name-Last: Blomberg 
Title: The multiple worlds of equity analysts: valuation, volume, and volatility 
Abstract:
 This paper contributes to the increasing research on how experts within
 financial institutions co-produce and organize financial markets, and in
 particular how equity analysts enact stock markets characterized by high
 volume and volatility. The 20 equity analysts studied give qualitatively
 different accounts of what, from an outsider's perspective, appear to be
 very similar work. The analysts understand investment objects, equity
 markets, and what constitutes good analytical work in qualitatively
 different ways. This heterogeneity, or multiplicity, could be one source
 of the, unexplained by orthodox financial theory, &#x2018;excess&#x2019;
 volatility and &#x2018;excess&#x2019; trading volume on financial markets.
 Therefore, the paper complements accounts within heterodox finance theory
 and sociology-based studies of financial market activities.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 277-295 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1147478 
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Author-Name: Aaron Z. Pitluck 
Author-X-Name-First: Aaron Z. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pitluck 
Title: How to embrace performativity while avoiding the rabbit hole 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 296-303 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1096815 
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Author-Name: Alberto Toscano 
Author-X-Name-First: Alberto 
Author-X-Name-Last: Toscano 
Title: Structured by cows 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 304-309 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1096814 
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Author-X-Name-First: Jos&#xe9; 
Author-X-Name-Last: Ossand&#xf3;n 
Author-Name: Trine Pallesen 
Author-X-Name-First: Trine 
Author-X-Name-Last: Pallesen 
Title: Testing the provoked economy 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 310-315 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1096811 
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Author-Name: Fabian Muniesa 
Author-X-Name-First: Fabian 
Author-X-Name-Last: Muniesa 
Title: You must fall down the rabbit hole 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 316-321 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1100132 
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Author-Name: Grahame F Thompson 
Author-X-Name-First: Grahame F 
Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson 
Title: Interdisciplinary complexities 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 322-329 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1090471 
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Author-Name: Annette-Carina van der Zaag 
Author-X-Name-First: Annette-Carina 
Author-X-Name-Last: van der Zaag 
Title: On posthuman subjectivity 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 330-336 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1040436 
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Author-Name: Lauren Tooker 
Author-X-Name-First: Lauren 
Author-X-Name-Last: Tooker 
Author-Name: Bill Maurer 
Author-X-Name-First: Bill 
Author-X-Name-Last: Maurer 
Title: The pragmatics of payment: adventures in first-person economy with Bill Maurer 
Abstract:
 Bill Maurer, Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Professor of
 Anthropology and Law, and Director of the Institute for Money, Technology
 and Financial Inclusion, all at the University of California, Irvine, has
 recently joined the <italic>Journal of Cultural Economy</italic> editorial
 team. Here, we reproduce an interview with him by Lauren Tooker from
 September 2014.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 337-345 
Issue: 3 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 6 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1077157 
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Author-Name: Sohini Kar 
Author-X-Name-First: Sohini 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kar 
Author-Name: Caroline Schuster 
Author-X-Name-First: Caroline 
Author-X-Name-Last: Schuster 
Title: Comparative projects and the limits of choice: ethnography and microfinance in India and Paraguay 
Abstract:
 In recent years, microfinance -- the suite of financial products offered
 to the poor -- has been widely adopted in international development
 policy. Organizations around the world have replicated this model
 successfully. This essay takes the comparative case more explicitly to
 read against the tendency to understand microfinance as the globally
 institutionalized and realized norm, and local unruly credit economies as
 the exception. We go beyond comparing credit in India and Paraguay in
 order to illustrate how comparison is actually central to the banking
 practices of microfinance. Moreover, it is the collaborative
 anthropological project that helps to show this, allowing not only for
 empirical grounds of comparison, but also raising theoretical and
 methodological questions of comparison itself. In juxtaposing microfinance
 in our two fieldsites, we find that as credit proliferates globally, so do
 the comparative projects both of borrowers and lenders in the disparate
 worlds of Kolkata and Ciudad del Este. At the same time, these were
 constrained by the global financial comparisons between countries made by
 investors. Ethnographic methods are vital for understanding how
 microfinance becomes part of a wider repertoire of financial strategies
 used by women while simultaneously offering the grounds for women to
 undertake their own acts of comparison.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 347-363 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1180632 
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Author-Name: Jean Fran&#xe7;ois Bissonnette 
Author-X-Name-First: Jean Fran&#xe7;ois 
Author-X-Name-Last: Bissonnette 
Title: From the moral to the neural: brain scans, decision-making, and the problematization of economic (ir)rationality 
Abstract:
 Advances in brain imaging techniques have opened new fields of
 investigation and often challenged conventional assumptions concerning
 human behaviour. This &#x2018;neuromolecular gaze&#x2019; [Rose, N. &
 Abi-Rached, J. (2013) <italic>Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the
 Management of the Mind</italic>, Princeton University Press, Princeton,
 NJ] also heralds new ways of intervening in the regulation of social
 phenomena, based on the objectification of the cerebral processes that
 underlie individual conducts. Neuroeconomics applies this brain-centric
 perspective to the study of economic decision-making. This paper engages
 with the two dominant approaches in neuroeconomics. The first section
 concentrates on the work of Paul Glimcher, who considers economic models
 and their correlative notion of &#x2018;utility maximization&#x2019; as
 providing the neurosciences with a theoretical framework as to how the
 brain solves decision problems. The second section discusses the findings
 of behavioural neuroeconomics, which attempts to model departures from the
 rationality axiom by measuring the cognitive and emotional biases that
 have their sources in the brain&#x2019;s complex architecture. Whereas
 both strands of neuroeconomics rely on a benchmark of economic
 rationality, this paper argues that they reformulate in allegedly neutral
 neuroscientific terms a behavioural norm that is basically moral in
 nature. If rational decision-making conditions economic and indeed
 evolutionary survival, and yet if most people regularly fail as utility
 optimizers, then understanding the neural causes of such failures should
 help people better themselves and behave as good <italic>homines
 &#x153;conomici</italic>.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 364-381 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1181097 
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Author-Name: Jack Newsinger 
Author-X-Name-First: Jack 
Author-X-Name-Last: Newsinger 
Author-Name: William Green 
Author-X-Name-First: William 
Author-X-Name-Last: Green 
Title: The infrapolitics of cultural value: cultural policy, evaluation and the marginalisation of practitioner perspectives 
Abstract:
 This article is about the politics of cultural value. It focusses on the
 representations of value that exist in the epistemologies and
 methodologies of cultural impact evaluation and the discrepancies between
 these official discourses and the discourses that correspond to cultural
 practitioners themselves. First the article outlines the critique of
 dominant forms of cultural impact evaluation, particularly the
 instrumentalisation of culture. In the second half of the article we draw
 upon qualitative research conducted with arts practitioners in the East
 Midlands region of England during 2013 and 2014. In so doing we introduce
 the concept of the &#x2018;infrapolitics&#x2019; of cultural value that
 draws on the work of radical anthropologist Scott [(1992)
 <italic>Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden
 Transcripts</italic>, Yale University Press, London]. The central argument
 is that representations of cultural value are discursive constructions
 constituted through the epistemologies and methodologies of cultural
 evaluation, and that there are key differences between these dominant
 discourses and the discourses of value of cultural practitioners
 themselves. One important although overlooked element of the significance
 of cultural value is therefore as a record of the performance of power
 within the cultural sector, an &#x2018;official transcript&#x2019; that
 represents dominant discourse of cultural value <italic>in
 opposition</italic> to the &#x2018;hidden transcripts&#x2019; that
 correspond to cultural practitioners. We argue for a research agenda that
 represents cultural value from practitioners&#x2019; point of view.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 382-395 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1141791 
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Author-Name: Anne M. Cronin 
Author-X-Name-First: Anne M. 
Author-X-Name-Last: Cronin 
Title: Reputational capital in &#x2018;the PR University&#x2019;: public relations and market rationalities 
Abstract:
 Drawing on empirical data, this article identifies the emergence of the
 &#x2018;PR University&#x2019; as an assemblage. Using a case study of
 university press officers&#x2019; work, I analyse how this form of media
 relations PR stages competition between UK universities through the media.
 A key form of this competition centres on the accumulation and circulation
 of what I term &#x2018;reputational capital&#x2019;. I focus on one core
 element of reputational capital -- media stories about HE research and the
 circulation of research metrics. I argue that the assemblage of the public
 relations (PR) University pulls the HE sector into dialogue with PR
 principles and practices in the context of recent shifts towards market
 rationalities. But this relationship is not a simple cause and effect
 model in which increasing HE &#x2018;marketisation&#x2019; creates a boom
 in universities&#x2019; PR practices, or intensifying investment in PR by
 universities merely amplifies or legitimises existing market tendencies in
 the sector. I argue that the PR University as assemblage starts generating
 its own logics around which actors in the field must orient themselves.
 More broadly, the PR University operates not only to promote an individual
 university&#x2019;s market position, but also acts upon public debates
 about the social role, legitimacy and financing of UK Higher Education.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 396-409 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1179663 
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Author-Name: Olivier Godechot 
Author-X-Name-First: Olivier 
Author-X-Name-Last: Godechot 
Title: Back in the bazaar: taking Pierre Bourdieu to a trading room 
Abstract:
 Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of aesthetic judgment, this text
 offers an inductive account of financial reasoning inside a trading room.
 Driven to maximise bank profits, trading room operators do not find
 &#x2018;one best way&#x2019;. Rather they choose among several possible
 winning strategies: <italic>mathematical arbitrage</italic>,
 <italic>economic analysis</italic>, <italic>chartist analysis</italic>.
 These strategies differ sharply from one another in their conception of
 the market, method, proximity to scholarly knowledge, and legitimacy. We
 show that the choice of one method depends on a system of tastes and
 distastes that are both historical -- depending on individuals&#x2019;
 social and educational background -- and relational -- depending on the
 individual's relative position within the trading room viewed as a field.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 410-429 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1116461 
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Author-Name: Leksa Lee 
Author-X-Name-First: Leksa 
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee 
Title: Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality among China's New Rich 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 430-432 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1067242 
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Author-Name: Stuart Kirsch 
Author-X-Name-First: Stuart 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kirsch 
Title: Unearthing Conflict: Corporate Mining, Activism, and Expertise in Peru, by Fabiana Li 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 433-436 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1070737 
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Author-Name: Fabiana Li 
Author-X-Name-First: Fabiana 
Author-X-Name-Last: Li 
Title: Mining Capitalism: The Relationship Between Corporations and Their Critics 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 436-438 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1070738 
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Author-Name: Stuart Kirsch 
Author-X-Name-First: Stuart 
Author-X-Name-Last: Kirsch 
Title: Response to Fabiana Li&#x2019;s review of <italic>Mining Capitalism</italic> 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 439-441 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1167439 
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Author-Name: Fabiana Li 
Author-X-Name-First: Fabiana 
Author-X-Name-Last: Li 
Title: Response to Stuart Kirsch&#x2019;s review of <italic>Unearthing Conflict</italic> 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy 
Pages: 442-443 
Issue: 4 
Volume: 9 
Year: 2016 
Month: 8 
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1167424 
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Author-Name: Jason T. Bartlett
Author-X-Name-First: Jason T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bartlett
Title: Uncovering the hidden history of African-American cooperatives
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 626-629
Issue: 6
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1135474
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Author-Name: Zdravka Todorova
Author-X-Name-First: Zdravka
Author-X-Name-Last: Todorova
Title: Towards a conceptualization of a debt-credit social process
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 617-621
Issue: 6
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1172019
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Author-Name: Drucilla K. Barker
Author-X-Name-First: Drucilla K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Barker
Title: Economics, economic anthropology, and debt
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 611-616
Issue: 6
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1172020
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Author-Name: Kelly Dombroski
Author-X-Name-First: Kelly
Author-X-Name-Last: Dombroski
Title: Call and response: a reflection on Miranda Joseph’s  from Aotearoa New Zealand
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 604-610
Issue: 6
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1172249
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Author-Name: Philip Roscoe
Author-X-Name-First: Philip
Author-X-Name-Last: Roscoe
Title: Algorithmic Life: Calculative Devices in the Age of Big Data, edited by Louise Amoore and Vohla Poitukh
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 631-634
Issue: 6
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1178658
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Author-Name: Kevin P. Donovan
Author-X-Name-First: Kevin P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Donovan
Title: How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual, by Dan Bouk
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 629-631
Issue: 6
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1178659
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Author-Name: Jennifer Y. J. Hsu
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer Y. J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hsu
Title: No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy, by Linsey McGoey
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 634-636
Issue: 6
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1187657
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Author-Name: Hendrik Vollmer
Author-X-Name-First: Hendrik
Author-X-Name-Last: Vollmer
Title: Re-imagining Economic Sociology, edited by Patrik Aspers and Nigel Dodd
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 636-639
Issue: 6
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1210019
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Author-Name: Trine Pallesen
Author-X-Name-First: Trine
Author-X-Name-Last: Pallesen
Title: Valuation struggles over pricing – determining the worth of wind power
Abstract: 
 Public policies such as feed-in tariffs have been widely introduced to stimulate the development of renewable energies, and sustain a decarbonisation of the electricity sector. Proponents argue that these governance instruments safeguard public goods such as the climate – yet they are accused of creating political markets, and political prices, here understood as market distortion. This paper studies the ‘politics’ of pricing by following the adoption of the first feed-in tariff in France. Pricing as a way of achieving non-economic ends, such as climate mitigation, brings the values of several public goods into play, all the while prompting a translation of these values into a single price. Following the struggles over the pricing of wind power in the early 2000s, the study illustrates that rather than a pollution of the market sphere by that of politics, a politics of pricing can be observed in four distinct struggles: namely the framing of the public interest; valuation as the articulation of the future; the possible agencies of governance; and role of valuation methods and calculations.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 527-540
Issue: 6
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1212084
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Author-Name: Rachel Weber
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel
Author-X-Name-Last: Weber
Title: Performing property cycles
Abstract: 
 Economists characterize fluctuations in property markets as ‘cyclical’ in that characteristics repeat and recur instead of being temporally isolated or random. I argue that cycle metaphors naturalize change and distract us from the social and institutional relations underpinning transformation in local property markets. I emphasize the performative nature of cycles by focusing on the networks of actors – brokers, appraisers, investors, and planners – that move capital through the built environment, articulating arguments for its free passage, identifying inflexion points, and temporarily stabilizing the meanings associated with individual buildings, submarkets, and periods. Drawing from a case study of an office development cycle in downtown Chicago (1998–2009), I argue that cycles can be treated not only as metaphors that describe economic processes, but also as socially effective constructions in their own right. Specifically, I consider three ways in which actors perform cycles, including (1) professionals’ use of market devices that contain within them assumptions regarding the proper timing of (dis)investment; (2) the existence of incentives for herding among professionals that draw them to and away from assets at roughly the same times; and (3) the importance of cycle thinking in instilling the confidence necessary to speculate on an unknown future.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 587-603
Issue: 6
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1212085
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Author-Name: Alasdair King
Author-X-Name-First: Alasdair
Author-X-Name-Last: King
Title: Documenting financial performativity: film aesthetics and financial crisis
Abstract: 
 Marc Bauder’s finance film, Master of the Universe (2013) won the European Documentary Film Prize in December 2014. Bauder’s film focuses on a series on interviews with a former leading investment banker, Rainer Voss, high up in one of Frankfurt’s deserted bank skyscrapers. Voss’s statements, set against the skyline of Frankfurt’s ‘Mainhattan’ financial sector, allow Bauder to constitute an aesthetic that, I argue, successfully addresses a key problem in moving image studies, namely how to find an appropriate film form to register the workings of contemporary finance. Bauder’s film offers an unusual depiction of the self-constitution and self-understanding of a banker-turned-whistleblower, focusing on Voss’s speech acts of explication and justification. Drawing on Judith Butler’s analysis of performative agency and of the separation of economics and politics through iterative perlocutionary acts, I argue that Bauder’s investigation into the performativity that establishes the autonomy of the financial sector and grants it extensive social power offers a significant aesthetic engagement with financial performativity and contributes to debates about documentary and performativity and about routes to a reconnection of economics and politics.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 555-569
Issue: 6
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1212726
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Author-Name: Léna Pellandini-Simányi
Author-X-Name-First: Léna
Author-X-Name-Last: Pellandini-Simányi
Title: Non-marketizing agents in the study of markets: competing legacies of performativity and actor-network-theory in the marketization research program
Abstract: 
 One line of criticism leveled against studies of markets inspired by the economization research program [Çalışkan, K. &amp; Callon, M. (2009) ‘Economization, part 1: shifting attention from the economy towards processes of economization’, Economy and Society, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 369–398 and Çalışkan, K. &amp; Callon, M. (2010) ‘Economization, part 2: a research programme for the study of markets’, Economy and Society, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 1–32.] is that their analytical priorities reflect an economics-centric perspective: they prioritize the study of market exchange itself and of agents promoting market framing, while leaving non-economic agendas and the broader contexts of markets both understudied and undertheorized. This weakness tends to be attributed to contingent analytical priorities, which can be remedied by extending the program’s focus without changing its theoretical tenets. This article, in contrast, suggests that these analytical priorities stem from a theoretical tension within the program, which is caused by the complete, instead of a selective adoption of the theoretical tools of the performativity agenda in the marketization program. As a result, while the program promotes the inclusion of non-marketizing agents through the notion of co-performation, its call to focus on those phenomena that agents qualify as ‘economic’ and on the making of market exchange delimits the analysis of non-marketizing agents to their helping/hindering effects on market framing. The solution proposed is to reassess some of the performativity-inspired tools of the program in favor of a more ANT-inspired approach to markets.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 570-586
Issue: 6
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1214614
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Author-Name: Christina Jerne
Author-X-Name-First: Christina
Author-X-Name-Last: Jerne
Title: Performativity and grassroots politics: on the practice of reshuffling mafia power
Abstract: 
 Recent uses of performativity have been engaged with bridging the gap between the economy and politics. The concept of performation has for instance been used to enable discursive and material assemblages that challenge this dichotomy, with the general aim of transforming the economy. While the overall intent of this article is to contribute to this bridging, its direction of travel is the opposite: to bring the economy into politics. Specifically, it situates the notion of performativity within studies on grassroots politics in a material sense. First, it discusses some of the leading scholarship on grassroots movements, focusing on their take on the economy. It moves on to suggest that some of the problems that are identified can be addressed using performativity theory, the benefits of which are discussed in the second part. Finally, it empirically illustrates the theoretical discussion by analysing the performativity of the discourses, things and people that are jointly fighting the Mafia today. The article places social movement studies in dialogue with scholarship which is preoccupied with the economic-political cleft, in order to encourage thinking of the economy as a space for political possibility and social struggle, rather than seeing it as a place of capitalocentrism, structural exploitation and inescapability.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 541-554
Issue: 6
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1214849
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Author-Name: Miranda Joseph
Author-X-Name-First: Miranda
Author-X-Name-Last: Joseph
Title: Responding and calling: for collaboration and/in counter-accounting for social justice
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 622-625
Issue: 6
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1233506
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Title: Editorial Board
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: ebi-ebi
Issue: 6
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1242233
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Author-Name: Sam Dallyn
Author-X-Name-First: Sam
Author-X-Name-Last: Dallyn
Title: Cryptocurrencies as market singularities: the strange case of Bitcoin
Abstract: 
 Since its creation in 2009, the electronic currency Bitcoin has generated volumes of online debate in the business press. While there have been plenty of economic arguments situating it as a financial bubble about to collapse including from Nobel Prize winning economists, its price value has proven to be more durable than many have predicted. To explain this durability, Karpik’s conception of market singularities is used to understand the Bitcoin phenomenon by outlining the beliefs that maintain Bitcoin’s status as a volatile financial asset. Market singularities are markets for particular kinds of goods and services that are of uncertain and incommensurable value. Singularities markets have communities of followers and a distinctive belief system that ascribes value to a particular product, service, or asset. Developing Karpik’s conception, the paper explores the libertarian political belief system that surrounds Bitcoin’s status as a financial asset. I also outline some political tensions within the electronic currency community concerning governance and centralisation.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 462-473
Issue: 5
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1315541
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Author-Name: Quinn DuPont
Author-X-Name-First: Quinn
Author-X-Name-Last: DuPont
Title: The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-wing Extremism, by David Golumbia
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 474-476
Issue: 5
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1322997
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Author-Name: Lotta Björklund Larsen
Author-X-Name-First: Lotta
Author-X-Name-Last: Björklund Larsen
Title: Mind the (tax) gap: an ethnography of a number
Abstract: 
 This article looks carefully at the making of the tax gap as a calculative practice at the Swedish Tax Agency. It points to the challenges with assessing tax gap numbers and reveals examples of its careless usage by various stakeholders in Swedish society in order to impact the discourse on tax compliance. Based on an ethnographic study of documents, it is an example of a number that performs a dual function: on the one hand mobilizing people’s morals and subsequent commitments and on the other hand measuring such commitments. On a more general level, the tax gap is an example of how a number that describes a complicated reality is calculated with many caveats attached to it, yet used with certainty in society. I thus challenge the metaphor of the ubiquitous ‘black box’. The Swedish tax gap number is a calculated device and can be unpacked as a specific number. But if we think about what a tax gap ought to contain, we have to think outside the box and beyond: what was not included in the published tax gap number and why there was no room for it.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 419-433
Issue: 5
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1323228
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Author-Name: Michael Hutter
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Hutter
Author-Name: Ignacio Farías
Author-X-Name-First: Ignacio
Author-X-Name-Last: Farías
Title: Sourcing newness: ways of inducing indeterminacy
Abstract: 
 This paper engages with the question of the new as the first stage in what may, at a later time, turn into an innovation. Taking our cue from John Dewey, the new is here interpreted as a consequence of indeterminacy. We study practices that induce indeterminacy in order to ‘source’ the new. Based on findings from a collective research programme, we distinguish three ways of inducing indeterminacy: configuring situations, creating things and risking valuations. For each of these ways of inducing indeterminacy basic variations are described and discussed in greater detail. The three ways of inducing indeterminacy are shown to correspond to a present-centred concept of time that distinguishes the now from a past and a future horizon. The cases presented affirm the claim that the new is not an inevitable consequence of the increasing entanglement of technoscience and the economy but something that needs to be sought for, cared for and actively produced.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 434-449
Issue: 5
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1326969
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Author-Name: David Hancock
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Hancock
Title: The Currency of Desire: Libidinal Economy, Psychoanalysis, and Sexual Revolution, by David Bennett
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 479-481
Issue: 5
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1335224
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Author-Name: Marc Lenglet
Author-X-Name-First: Marc
Author-X-Name-Last: Lenglet
Title: Abstract Market Theory, by Jon Roffe
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 481-484
Issue: 5
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1350596
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Author-Name: Maitrayee Deka
Author-X-Name-First: Maitrayee
Author-X-Name-Last: Deka
Title: Calculation in the pirate bazaars
Abstract: 
 Recent debates in economic sociology have focused on the question of long-term calculation specific to capitalism. With a renewed interest in Max Weber’s work, particularly his seminal essay, The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism, scholars such as Arjun Appadurai and Jens Beckert have analysed calculative devices intrinsic to long-term accounting. Appadurai highlights the charismatic figure of the financial player who speculates on uncertainty, the same realm of uncertainty that in Beckert’s work becomes intelligible through the creation of market fictions. In this paper, I instead explore calculation as it unfolds in bazaars selling contraband and pirated electronic goods. Based on an ethnographic account of Delhi’s Lajpat Rai market, Palika Bazaar, and Nehru Place, I argue that calculation in the pirate bazaars is of a short-term nature and oriented to an embedded economic rationality that is closely entangled with the longue durée of everyday life. Rather than future-oriented fictions, small-scale traders employ moral stories and piracy-related discourses to meet day-to-day survival needs.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 450-461
Issue: 5
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1352009
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Author-Name: Crawford Spence
Author-X-Name-First: Crawford
Author-X-Name-Last: Spence
Title: Noise: Living and Trading in Electronic Finance, by Alex Preda
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 476-479
Issue: 5
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1352011
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Author-Name: Antti Silvast
Author-X-Name-First: Antti
Author-X-Name-Last: Silvast
Author-Name: Mikko J. Virtanen
Author-X-Name-First: Mikko J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Virtanen
Title: An assemblage of framings and tamings: multi-sited analysis of infrastructures as a methodology
Abstract: 
 The social life of methods – the idea that research methods are an important topic of inquiry in and of themselves – has been receiving increasing interest in scholarship on the organisation of the economy and social life, including Science and Technology Studies (STS). In STS, especially ethnographic methods have been important for decades. This article develops an ethnographic methodology for the study of a very new case that challenges the assumptions underpinning many STS ethnographies. This case is the networked energy infrastructure, and we specifically focus on its risk management and markets. Drawing upon recent STS interest in multi-sited ethnography, the article’s research design is termed the multi-sited analysis of infrastructures (MSAI), and it develops the concepts of framing and taming to focus on meaning formation as mundane sense-making and as technicalised reasoning on different sites. We demonstrate these concepts in a multi-sited ethnography of energy infrastructure and its risk management and market activities in public regulation, special control rooms (including energy trading), and households. The article rounds up by explaining how the application of our methodology contributes to the advancement of interests in multi-sited ethnography, relating our research to the previous work in the fields of STS, infrastructure studies, and their methods.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 461-477
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1646156
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Author-Name: Sandra Faustino
Author-X-Name-First: Sandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Faustino
Title: How metaphors matter: an ethnography of blockchain-based re-descriptions of the world
Abstract: 
 This paper explores the role of metaphors in the production of re-descriptions of the world within the framework of technological design processes. Drawing on a collaborative ethnography with the Economic Space Agency (ECSA), a start-up developing post-blockchain technology, this paper illustrates how metaphors mimic the toponymy of decentralized material infrastructures, while simultaneously pushing forward ‘posthuman’ values that are expected to become fixated through software. Through an analysis of a ‘collection’ of metaphors produced by ECSA, this paper sheds light on the work performed by specific vocabularies, within technological communities, in shaping a symbiotic relationship between futuristic politics and material culture.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 478-490
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1629330
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Author-Name: Daniel Souleles
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Souleles
Author-Name: Kristian Bondo Hansen
Author-X-Name-First: Kristian Bondo
Author-X-Name-Last: Hansen
Title: Can they all be ‘Shit-heads’?: learning to be a contrarian investor
Abstract: 
 This article seeks to explain one of the sensibilities or dispositions that novices learn in the process of becoming financiers, namely, to be a contrarian. We will review investment pitches from an American undergraduate collegiate investment fund, interviews with some members of the club, and field notes from a few of their outings, and treat instances of their contrariness as moments in their process of going from non-investors to investors, moments in which they experiment with and learn new social habits, identities and practices. Moreover, we connect this contrariness with a much longer tradition in the formation of an identity and subjectivity as an investor. More than any simple technology of thought to be deployed in a particular situation, contrarianism is a thoroughgoing mode of framing and understanding life, both in investment contexts and beyond, which we suggest was born between the 1880s and 1940s and has persisted in various forms to this day. This paper offers two instances of how someone becomes contrary, and suggests that contrarianism may be a fairly typical way for humans to make sense of financial markets.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 491-507
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1646157
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Author-Name: Rebecca Bramall
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca
Author-X-Name-Last: Bramall
Title: Logics of onshoring: brand geographies, corporate tax responsibility and common sense
Abstract: 
 Since the global financial crisis of 2008 the issue of corporate tax avoidance has gained considerable political salience and public attention. This article explores the frameworks of meaning available for citizen-consumers to evaluate and form views on corporate tax behaviour. Building on research on the spatiality of taxation, I argue that brands and their spatial associations afford significant resources for making sense of the taxpaying responsibilities of multinational enterprises. Through the identification and analysis of three different forms of geographical entanglement – national origination, imbrication in the public domain, and territorialization of economic activity – I draw out the responsibilities that are inferred by these spatial associations. I propose that brands’ geographical entanglements tend to support a particular ‘logic of onshoring’, or common sense explanation concerning where corporations ought to pay tax, and I discuss the implications that the dominance of this logic may hold for the global politics of taxation. In drawing attention to the relationship between geographies of brands and geographies of taxation, the article furthers critical understanding of the role of space and place in everyday taxation imaginaries, and proposes an agenda for future research.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 508-520
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1668823
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Author-Name: Tim Simpson
Author-X-Name-First: Tim
Author-X-Name-Last: Simpson
Title: LIVE Baccarat calculations: Macau machine gambling and the production of the post-socialist subject
Abstract: 
 Following Portugal’s return of Macau to the People’s Republic of China in 1999, and the subsequent liberalization of the city’s 150-year-old casino monopoly, Macau was transformed into the world’s most lucrative site of casino gaming. Today Macau attracts more than 30 million annual tourists, the majority of whom are from mainland China. This article analyzes an electronic casino game called LIVE Baccarat, which was created by a Hong Kong biopharmaceutical company, and designed to appeal to Chinese gamblers in Macau. Drawing on the work of Michel Callon and Michel Foucault, I explore the ways in which the LIVE Baccarat gaming machine ‘economizes’ the game of baccarat by introducing novel betting functions which require gamblers to engage in various forms of financial calculation, including calqulation, hedging, arbitrage, and portfolio management. LIVE Baccarat is a biopolitical apparatus of subjection of a post-socialist Chinese homo economicus, a form of ‘human capital’ which Foucault might call an ‘entrepreneur of the self.’ This subject not only plays a remunerative role in Macau’s gaming industry, but conforms to China’s macroeconomic goals to engender ‘quality’ citizens equipped to support a domestic consumer market which may supplant the unsustainable production-for-export regime that drove the country’s initial post-reform development.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 521-538
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1630660
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Author-Name: Yeela Lahav-Raz
Author-X-Name-First: Yeela
Author-X-Name-Last: Lahav-Raz
Title: The prosumer economy and the sex industry: the creation of an online community of sex prosumers
Abstract: 
 In this article, I discuss how changes in the economic infrastructure of mass consumption have changed the values and attitudes of consumer culture. By focusing on an online community of Israeli sex consumers and applying the theoretical framework of the prosumer economy, this article suggests its innovative potential for understanding the intersections of cyberspace, capitalism, and sex work consumption. Using the context of the dynamic cultural terrain of prosumerism, the article examines how commercial way of thinking is encouraged, understood, and adopted by sex consumers in the practice of purchasing sexual encounters and sharing them online. The main argument is that the online community of sex consumers has become a collaborative project in which consumers simultaneously produce and consume – that is, they become ‘prosumers’ and thus occupy positions of power within the capitalist market-place. They, therefore, not only responding to market rules but also producing them. I claim that the change in the nature of the community has impacted both the nature of online writing and the way clients perceive sex workers.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 539-551
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1646159
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Author-Name: Hilde Reinertsen
Author-X-Name-First: Hilde
Author-X-Name-Last: Reinertsen
Author-Name: Kristin Asdal
Author-X-Name-First: Kristin
Author-X-Name-Last: Asdal
Title: Calculating the blue economy: producing trust in numbers with business tools and reflexive objectivity
Abstract: 
 The ‘blue economy’ has in recent years become a leading concept for envisioning what may come after the fossil-based era. In efforts at calculating the potential economic value of the ocean, policy-oriented documents seek to unite diverse actors around common goals. Through the calculation of numbers, large-scale and long-term policy visions are being crystallized. But how do such numbers come into being in practice? This article interrogates this question with an example from the Norwegian context: the established policy goal of a so-called ‘five-fold increase’ in marine value creation in the year 2050. While powerful numbers are commonly expected to be produced through the procedures of ‘mechanical objectivity’ that involve strict quantification and scientific methods, our analysis shows a rather different route towards a powerful number: By loosely combining tools developed for business management, the number is calculated by, first, openly combining qualitative and narrative operations into the calculation and then, next, decoupling qualitative uncertainties from the quantified potential. The result is a calculative process that takes the form of what we suggest to call ‘reflexive objectivity’ and a policy-oriented number that encourages risk-taking and action over restraint and precaution.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 552-570
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1639066
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Author-Name: Anna Wallsten
Author-X-Name-First: Anna
Author-X-Name-Last: Wallsten
Author-Name: Vasilis Galis
Author-X-Name-First: Vasilis
Author-X-Name-Last: Galis
Title: The discreet charm of activeness: the vain construction of efficient smart grid users
Abstract: 
 Activeness is a key concept in smart grid visions, but little is known of what this activeness entails. By combing the literature on marketisation/performativity with critical consumption studies, we outline our findings from a case study of a smart grid project in Sweden. Using a mixed method methodology, we critically approach various tensions, doubts and frictions that occur in the process of constructing ‘activeness.’ For decades, the design of the Swedish energy system has been guided by assumptions that users base their actions on what is profitable and thus behave as calculative agents, and we found this assumption also acted as a guiding principle in this project. However, we encountered project employees who continuously pondered the appropriateness of configuring the smart grid around an economic cornerstone, and they hesitated when trying to explain how their configuration was aligned with the notion of activeness. By describing their scripted users as ‘passively active’ and ‘actively active,’ they seemed to cling to the notion of activeness while simultaneously stretching the actual meaning of this word. We conclude that these ambiguities in the configuration of the smart grid do not contribute to any sense of collective rule or environmentally friendly solutions.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 571-589
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1639067
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Author-Name: Chuan Li
Author-X-Name-First: Chuan
Author-X-Name-Last: Li
Author-Name: Vicente Coll-Serrano
Author-X-Name-First: Vicente
Author-X-Name-Last: Coll-Serrano
Title: Assessing the role of collaboration in the process of museum innovation
Abstract: 
 The relationship between collaboration and innovation in cultural organisations is an emerging topic that has drawn particular attention from scholars and practitioners. The main aim of this study is to assess the role of collaboration in the process of innovation in museum organisations. To achieve this aim, first, we develop a four-domain analytical framework by matching innovation types to cultural production processes to reflect the peculiarities of museum innovation. By applying this framework to the multiple case studies from four Spanish museums, we identify three main motivations (supplementing manpower, compensating for the scarcity of knowledge, improving demand-driven innovation) and four forms of collaboration (teamwork, outsourcing, consortium and conversation) and summarise the different modes of collaboration involved in various domains of production and innovation. An assessment is conducted subsequently to evaluate the effectiveness of existing collaborations in achieving technological and cultural innovation in museums. Finally, a list of implications for museums’ innovation management is presented.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 590-606
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1643392
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Author-Name: Kyle Mohr
Author-X-Name-First: Kyle
Author-X-Name-Last: Mohr
Title: Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 607-609
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1621770
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Author-Name: Julia Scatliff O'Grady
Author-X-Name-First: Julia Scatliff
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Grady
Title: Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 609-612
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1639530
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Author-Name: Paul Giles
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Giles
Title: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 612-614
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1639068
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 363-364
Issue: 4
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2011.609689
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Author-Name: Melinda Cooper
Author-X-Name-First: Melinda
Author-X-Name-Last: Cooper
Title: COMPLEXITY THEORY AFTER THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
Abstract: Amongst the many calls for regulatory reform voiced in the wake of the global financial crisis, the contributions of Andrew G. Haldane and his colleagues at the Bank of England stand out as some of the most politically and intellectually ambitious. In 2009, Haldane, the Bank's Executive Director of Financial Stability, delivered a speech advocating the integration of complex systems theory (particularly as developed in the field of ecosystems science) into the toolkit of financial regulation. In an effort to understand what is at stake in such calls for theoretical and regulatory regime change, this article traces the prehistory of complex systems thinking in economics. It focuses special attention on two contributions to this minor tradition – the little-known later work of the Austrian neoliberal, Friedrich von Hayek, who elaborated a philosophy of spontaneous economic order on the basis of complex systems theory, and the more recent work of the so-called ‘new institutionalists’, economists who lay claim to the tradition of ‘evolutionary’ philosophy articulated by the neoclassical Alfred Marshall. These exemplary currents in economic complexity theory articulate very similar critiques of the neoclassical orthodoxy yet diverge sharply in their political commitments. This paper situates recent calls to import complexity theory into financial regulation in ambivalent tension between the Austrian and new institutionalist traditions. It concludes with some skeptical reflections on the notion that the financial crisis signals the ‘death of neoliberalism’.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 371-385
Issue: 4
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2011.609692
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Author-Name: Ismail Erturk
Author-X-Name-First: Ismail
Author-X-Name-Last: Erturk
Author-Name: Julie Froud
Author-X-Name-First: Julie
Author-X-Name-Last: Froud
Author-Name: Adam Leaver
Author-X-Name-First: Adam
Author-X-Name-Last: Leaver
Author-Name: Michael Moran
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Moran
Author-Name: Karel Williams
Author-X-Name-First: Karel
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams
Title: HALDANE'S GAMBIT
Abstract: This article considers the body of work which Andrew Haldane has published since the onset of financial crisis. It draws a distinction between two kinds of criticism in that work: Haldane's interference through political arithmetic on the costs of finance and Haldane's big concept of the financial network using metaphors drawn from the life sciences. His readers have mainly focused on Haldane's innovation through concept and network metaphor while neglecting his political arithmetic and empirics on the costs of finance. But this article argues that Haldane's political arithmetic on costs is an important radical intervention when the finance sector is deflecting reform with a trade narrative about the social benefits of finance.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 387-404
Issue: 4
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2011.609696
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Author-Name: Grahame Thompson
Author-X-Name-First: Grahame
Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson
Title: SOURCES OF FINANCIAL SOCIABILITY
Abstract: This article investigates the sources of sociability in modern financial systems as a prelude to assessing the prospects for financial regulation. Three sources are identified: sociality dependent upon contract, upon relational interdependency, and upon the operation of will and passion. Each of these would provide its own rationale for regulation but it is the third that is stressed here as a radical conception, one that needs to be more fully addressed than has so far proved possible in an analytical context. And it is this conception that connects most closely to a second overall theme of the article which is to explore further the nature of ‘irrationality’ as manifest in financial crises. When the contours of both these aspects of financial calculation have been elaborated, the article moves on to consider how they might shape regulatory responses to the seeming inevitability of financial crises in modern capitalist economies.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 405-421
Issue: 4
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2011.609699
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Author-Name: Richard Swedberg
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Swedberg
Title: THE ROLE OF SENSES AND SIGNS IN THE ECONOMY
Abstract: Since some years back a number of scholars have argued that the analysis in social science, including the analysis of economic life, needs to take materiality into account. In this article, the author suggests that one way to do push the debate about materiality one step further would be to look at the role of the senses in mediating between outside materiality and the inside reality of the actor. Drawing on Georg Simmel's essay The Sociology of the Senses the author suggests how we may look at the senses from a sociological perspective; this article also discusses what an economic sociology of the senses might look like. In order to show the mechanism by which the senses operate when they mediate between outside materiality and inside reality, the author draws on the sign theory of philosopher Charles Peirce. The signs, and what they refer to, come together in the mind of the subject, Peirce argues. They also impact the subject, rather than the other way around.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 423-437
Issue: 4
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2011.609703
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Author-Name: Liz Moor
Author-X-Name-First: Liz
Author-X-Name-Last: Moor
Author-Name: Celia Lury
Author-X-Name-First: Celia
Author-X-Name-Last: Lury
Title: MAKING AND MEASURING VALUE
Abstract: This paper explores the use of three different forms of valuation and measurement by or on behalf of brands and branded organizations: financial brand valuation; brand equity measurement; and internal social or environmental evaluations. These systems, it is argued, are sites at which possible relationships between economic and other values are explored, and at which understandings of what is valuable emerge in tandem with the means for acknowledging and measuring it. By tracing the contexts and workings of these systems the paper shows how they allow aspects of the social world, including relationships and affects, to be partially absorbed into the brand as values. We argue that in an environment in which ‘value’ is imagined to be diffuse but omnipresent, the proliferation of valuation systems evidences both a requirement for new forms of measurement (capable of capturing multiple forms of value) and a search for novel ways of linking measurement and valuation. The paper concludes with an exploration of how these new ways of linking measurement and valuation may allow economic agency to be recognized and distributed.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 439-454
Issue: 4
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
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Author-Name: Mikael Ottosson
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Author-Name: Vasilis Galis
Author-X-Name-First: Vasilis
Author-X-Name-Last: Galis
Title: MULTIPLICITY JUSTIFIES CORPORATE STRATEGY
Abstract: This study conducts an analysis of the relationship between strategic theory, industry- or market-wide practices, valuation metrics, and justification rhetoric in performing strategic practice. In doing this, we refer to Michel Callon on the performativity of economics and Boltanski and Thévenot on the justification of strategic action. The paper introduces an analytical framework for studying the corporate strategy pragmatics of a forest industry company – Stora Enso – over the 1990–2008 period. The authors argue that Stora Enso's corporate strategy is justified by and represents the outcome of multiple performances that coexist and interact with each other. These multiple performances, ranging from general strategic management conceptual theories to industry-wide practices and valuation metrics, may lead to conflict when creating successful businesses.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 455-475
Issue: 4
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2011.609712
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Author-Name: Michael Pryke
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Author-X-Name-Last: Pryke
Title: INTRODUCING ANDREW HALDANE
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 365-369
Issue: 4
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2011.609713
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Author-Name: Jeffrey Alexander
Author-X-Name-First: Jeffrey
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Title: MARKET AS NARRATIVE AND CHARACTER
Abstract: In this essay, the author analyzes social science thinking about the capitalist market from instrumentalism to institutionalism and the recent turn toward more cultural economics, and propose to enlarge the latter opening via the 'strong program' in cultural sociology. Nineteenth century' big thinkers' conceptualized the market as if it were entirely deracinated, based on alienation and pure calculation. The profession of economics subtracted the social critique from this dismal understanding and converted the dismal science into mathematical predictions and production functions. The new economic sociology exposed the institutional framework of market decisions, emphasizing social networks and status competition. Cultural economic sociology has challenged institutionalism, showing how social meanings, not just institutional position, determines economic value. The next step is to demonstrate that the market itself depends on cultural meanings. The strength of a market depends upon narrative projections of future economic conditions. An optimistic scenario creates confidence and sparks investment. A pessimistic narrative creates fear and leads investors keep their money tight. Confidence in the future depends on constructions of 'character': will economic actors constrain themselves by acting in a sober and moral way or will they be hedonistic, indulging in short-term satisfaction? This cultural-sociological theory is illustrated with reference to Keynes' General Theory about the 1930s Great Depression and U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's policy vis-à-vis the current Great Recession.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 477-488
Issue: 4
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
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Title: NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 489-490
Issue: 4
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
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Title: EDITORIAL BOARD
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: ebi-ebi
Issue: 4
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2011.628785
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Author-Name: Geoff Mann
Author-X-Name-First: Geoff
Author-X-Name-Last: Mann
Title: Haute finance in the not-so-quiet revolution:  and the bombing of la Bourse de Montréal
Abstract: 
 This paper examines a situation in which finance is perceived as imperialist – as immanent to, and serving the interests of, a single ‘culture’ in the colloquial sense. The analysis centres on the long-forgotten 1969 bombing of the trading floor of la Bourse de Montréal (the Montréal Stock Exchange), a moment in an intense phase of the Québécois movement for independence from Canada. Because of the way in which the bombers framed the attack, and its political-economic and discursive contexts, the bombing presents an opportunity to think about key features of the relation between finance and cultural domination or imperialism. These features relate to finance’s specific articulation to the future, uncertainty, and, in the words of the séparatistes of the time, cultural ‘destiny’. The paper has three parts. The first describes the bombing of la Bourse and the public, media, and state responses, linking it to Québécois cultural-political geographies at several scales. Part two places the bombing in the longer-run cultural-politicization of finance in the francophone independence movement, to outline a specifically Québecois critique of finance capital. The third part considers finance’s perceived and real connection to, and thus capacity to shape or constrain, the cultural-political construction of collective possibility.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 364-376
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1233131
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Author-Name: Ismail Erturk
Author-X-Name-First: Ismail
Author-X-Name-Last: Erturk
Title: Shadow banking: a story of the  (the Double) in science of finance
Abstract: 
 After the 2007 financial crisis central bank economists in the US produced a map of shadow banking system, a fragile interconnectedness of regulated and unregulated financial institutions, to explain why the crisis had happened. This piece of cartographic work in banking regulation had two aims: (a) to represent the economic reality, including the parts that were not in regulatory sight, with full realism and (b) to develop a regulatory surveillance regime to monitor shadow banking to prevent future crises. This paper problematises the first aim as a peculiar cognitive response to the knowledge crisis of economics which challenges the consensus on modern finance as post-modern Baudrilliardian simulacra. The paper then introduces a cultural economy perspective to explore the regulatory fear in the second aim of the shadow banking analysis with references to the theme of the Doppelgänger (the Double) in the genre of horror stories. Finally the societal consequences of the control oriented epistemological choices of the shadow banking analysis are problematised by using Michel Serres concepts of foedera natura versus foedera fati.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 377-392
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1251955
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Author-Name: Daniel Souleles
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Souleles
Title: Something new: value and change in finance
Abstract: 
 Ethnographic and social scientific accounts of the financiers that buy and sell companies for profit often homogenize the players in these social dramas, relying on blunt, totalizing definitions of culture or overly deterministic articulations of habitus. This article, drawing on a two-year study of private equity investors, offers an alternative analytic frame for making sense of how private equity people buy and sell companies. It explores the ways in which private equity people make arguments persuading one another and the larger public that an investment is worth making. Important to these arguments are not only substantive content, the evidence that investors marshal to support a thesis, but also reflective evaluation of what counts as good evidence, meta-commentary. It is in these split levels of analysis that we can appreciate the cultural diversity within finance, Wall Street, and investment banking. I will also suggest that understanding how investors are arguing substantively as well as meta-pragmatically begins to outline a useful theory of culture change within the world of investment banking.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 393-404
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1261257
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Author-Name: Dick Bryan
Author-X-Name-First: Dick
Author-X-Name-Last: Bryan
Author-Name: Michael Rafferty
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Rafferty
Title: Reframing austerity: financial morality, savings and securitization
Abstract: 
 Austerity in the twenty-first century is different, compared both with the past, and across locations. This analysis explores the different role played by households in policies designed to maintain financial market liquidity in the context of aspirations of state deficit reduction. While in Europe there is austerity as popularly depicted, in the United States, where mortgage-backed securities have become central to monetary policy, the agenda is to keep households meeting their debt obligations. These differences are explained in terms of different conceptions of monetary policy and evolving conceptions of money itself. The evidence portends a changing role for households and their financial payments in anchoring the money system.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 339-355
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1287764
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Author-Name: Carolyn Hardin
Author-X-Name-First: Carolyn
Author-X-Name-Last: Hardin
Title: The politics of finance: cultural economy, cultural studies and the road ahead
Abstract: 
 Cultural economy of finance examines the cultural constitution and implications of financial markets in light of the growing financialization of economies and social life. In the effort to explain ‘how finance actually works’, it rejects both depoliticized mainstream financial economics and predetermined Marxist political economy. However, this rejection has resulted in a lack of analyses of the politics of finance. In this paper, I suggest that cultural economy of finance should nurture a form of analysis indigenous to cultural studies – provisional framework building – whereby politically urgent and contextually specific frameworks could be offered to provoke debate about the power relations within and political impacts of financial activity. I offer a description of provisional framework building based on key commitments of cultural studies, and several examples of the practice that have already taken place in research on financial markets. More of this work can create a more rigorous and grounded understanding of the politics of finance within the umbrella of cultural economy of finance.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 325-338
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1297249
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Author-Name: Antonios Kaniadakis
Author-X-Name-First: Antonios
Author-X-Name-Last: Kaniadakis
Title: How Industry Analysts Shape the Digital Future, by Neil Pollock and Robin Williams
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 410-412
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1312487
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Author-Name: D. T. Cochrane
Author-X-Name-First: D. T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Cochrane
Title: Economics in the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Perspective, by Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 408-410
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1313172
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Author-Name: Lawrence Grossberg
Author-X-Name-First: Lawrence
Author-X-Name-Last: Grossberg
Title: Between political economy and cultural studies: a response to Bryan and Rafferty
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 356-363
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1321033
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Author-Name: David Evans
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Title: Household Recycling and Consumption Work: Social and Moral Economies, by Kathryn Wheeler and Miriam Glucksmann
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 415-417
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1323314
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Author-Name: Hervé Corvellec
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Title: Plastic Water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water, by Gay Hawkins, Emily Potter, and Kane Race
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 412-415
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1328368
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Author-Name: Antoine Hennion
Author-X-Name-First: Antoine
Author-X-Name-Last: Hennion
Title: Restoring the mediators: a response to Nick Seaver
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 405-407
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1328369
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Author-Name: Fabian Cannizzo
Author-X-Name-First: Fabian
Author-X-Name-Last: Cannizzo
Author-Name: Christian Mauri
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Mauri
Author-Name: Nick Osbaldiston
Author-X-Name-First: Nick
Author-X-Name-Last: Osbaldiston
Title: Moral barriers between work/life balance policy and practice in academia
Abstract: 
 Despite the proliferation of work/life balance policies in Australian universities, academic staff continue to report experiences of time pressure, anxiety, and over-work. This paper contributes to the research of academic time and career planning by exploring how early career academics engage with work/life balance policies, utilising a critical reading of Richard Sennett’s work on the corrosion of character in late capitalist economies. We find that policy engagement is tied into academics’ professional identities and perceptions of ‘good’ conduct. Drawing on interviews from a sample of 25 Australian early career academics, we argue that the failure of early career academics to use formal work/life balance policies is partially explained by the presence of workplace cultures that reward demonstrations of commitment to work roles. The use of work/life balance policies hence carries a moral cost, which participants report reflects on their character. This paper contributes to an understanding of how work/life balance policies are enacted at the level of department and individual, and argues that future research projects would benefit from attending to the construction of worker ideals within workplace cultures.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 251-264
Issue: 4
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1605400
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Author-Name: Nathan Schneider
Author-X-Name-First: Nathan
Author-X-Name-Last: Schneider
Title: Decentralization: an incomplete ambition
Abstract: 
 Decentralization is a term widely used in a variety of contexts, particularly in political science and discourses surrounding the Internet. It is popular today among advocates of blockchain technology. While frequently employed as if it were a technical term, decentralization more reliably appears to operate as a rhetorical strategy that directs attention toward some aspects of a proposed social order and away from others. It is called for far more than it is theorized or consistently defined. This non-specificity has served to draw diverse participants into common political and technological projects. Yet even the most apparently decentralized systems have shown the capacity to produce economically and structurally centralized outcomes. The rhetoric of decentralization thus obscures other aspects of the re-ordering it claims to describe. It steers attention from where concentrations of power are operating, deferring worthwhile debate about how such power should operate. For decentralization to be a reliable concept in formulating future social arrangements and related technologies, it should come with high standards of specificity. It also cannot substitute for anticipating centralization with appropriate mechanisms of accountability.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 265-285
Issue: 4
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1589553
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Author-Name: Janette Webb
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Title: New lamps for old: financialised governance of cities and clean energy
Abstract: 
 Using a six-year case study of Glasgow’s Sustainable City business model, this paper examines interactions between financialised governance of cities and clean energy strategies. Research on the role of cities in developing clean energy has paid limited attention to the interaction with financialised governance of infrastructure, which makes the implementation of plans largely dependent on private investment. A conceptual approach combining economic sociology of actor networks and urban political economy is used to analyse the career of the business model designed to transform old infrastructures into new clean energy assets. The analysis focuses on interactions between city council, public bodies and electricity distribution network business. Climate policies are creating uncertainties for energy businesses over revenues from ageing networks, suggesting scope for alliance with local governments. Making new liquid assets for clean energy from old infrastructure is however shown to be a process marked by instability and reversals. In conclusion, it is argued that concepts from actor-network theory and urban political economy used together reveal the hidden contingencies of financialisation in particular socio-technical interactions, and their materiality in the context of climate change.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 286-298
Issue: 4
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1613253
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Author-Name: Jonathan H. Grossman
Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan H.
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Title: Passing cash from bank notes to bitcoin: standardizing money
Abstract: 
 This essay is about the modern bank note and bitcoin and how each standardizes money. Whether constituted by paper or protocol, whether performing (or failing) as a store of wealth, a medium of exchange, or unit of account, bank notes and bitcoins enact interchangeable equivalence with themselves, every one-pound note or bitcoin the same as another, and their mode of passing hand-to-hand or peer-to-peer also conscripts their holders as readily interchangeable. This essay examines the different ways that these two types of currency engineered this standardization, and I show how the new blockchain technology of Bitcoin innovated upon the standardizing process that made bank notes interchangeable. As I recount in the essay’s first half, standardizing physical bank notes involved re-imagining them detached from the temporality of any specific contractual transaction so as to be, like coin, grasped as immediately physically interchangeable, and the bank note used print and the act of reading to do so. In the essay’s second half, I discuss how, by contrast, Bitcoin standardizes money not by operating on any physical object, not even a digital one, but by creating a sense of immediately fungible value through maintaining the unique historicity of every transaction in the system.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 299-316
Issue: 4
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1621767
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Author-Name: Chris Vasantkumar
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Title: Towards a commodity theory of token money: on ‘Gold standard thinking in a fiat currency world’
Abstract: 
 Via a discussion of public debates surrounding the potential minting of a trillion dollar platinum coin in the context of the American debt ceiling crises of 2011 and 2013, this essay seeks to make sense of the popular persistence of ‘commodity’ or ‘metallist’ understandings of money's value in the face of a scholarly consensus that all currency is ‘token’ or ‘fiat’ in nature. Scholars from Knapp to Desan have elaborated token theories of commodity money, wherein both precious and non-precious currencies are treated as the products of social construction. By contrast, I suggest the need to supplement such approaches with what I term a commodity theory of token money, wherein money objects made from both precious and non-precious materials are treated as inherently valuable. Exploring the semiotic convergence between gold, Bitcoin and modern paper money, I suggest that the broadly Peircean notion of rhematization in which symbol and indexical signs are (mis)taken for iconic ones is particularly suited to unpack the continuing social salience of commodity theories of money across the gold/paper divide. Moreover attention must be paid to how we define the icon itself.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 317-335
Issue: 4
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1614086
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Author-Name: Oliver Levingston
Author-X-Name-First: Oliver
Author-X-Name-Last: Levingston
Title: Stop the clock: comprehending and contesting the logic of speculative time
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 336-340
Issue: 4
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1621769
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Author-Name: Silvia Rief
Author-X-Name-First: Silvia
Author-X-Name-Last: Rief
Title: Knowledge and social freedom
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 341-346
Issue: 4
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1619613
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Author-Name: Naaborle Sackeyfio
Author-X-Name-First: Naaborle
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Title: Doing Business in Cameroon: An Anatomy of Economic Governance
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 347-349
Issue: 4
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1622145
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Author-Name: Armond R. Towns
Author-X-Name-First: Armond R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Towns
Title: Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 350-351
Issue: 4
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1621768
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Author-Name: Martín Tironi
Author-X-Name-First: Martín
Author-X-Name-Last: Tironi
Author-Name: Pablo Hermansen
Author-X-Name-First: Pablo
Author-X-Name-Last: Hermansen
Title: Cosmopolitical encounters: Prototyping at the National Zoo in Santiago, Chile
Abstract: 
 This article presents an empirical reflection on how the prototyping of an environmental enrichment device for chimpanzees at the National Zoo of Chile precipitates a cosmopolitical encounter. Using material produced by design students, zookeepers and the chimps Judy and Gombe, we describe how prototyping iterations establish open processes of dialogue and encounters among humans and nonhumans. The case will demonstrate how prototyping can go further than the generation of models of an original. On the contrary, the cosmopolitical encounter emerging from the prototyping process makes evident a truly ontological vocation, acknowledging humans and other-than-human beings as singular entities. Its provisional and malleable nature turns this device into a privileged locus for the exploration of interspecies entanglement. Although zoos are scientifically organized institutions, in this case we observe how its anthropocentric hierarchy was performatively reshuffled at certain moments of the prototyping process. The cosmopolitical qualities of the prototyping process analyzed derive from its capacity to deploy an ethics of attention and care between the agencies at play, that is, for unfold gestures of mutual vulnerability. Finally, we propose prototyping as a device for moving from cosmopolitics as a way of understanding the world to cosmopolitics as a matter of design.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 330-347
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1433705
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Author-Name: Pablo Jaramillo
Author-X-Name-First: Pablo
Author-X-Name-Last: Jaramillo
Title: Sites, funds and spheres of exchange in a Clean Development Mechanism project
Abstract: 
 This article analyses the implementation and operation of a wind farm in ancestral indigenous lands in Colombia. A wind farm operates at different levels: creating energy, social programmes, jobs, carbon credits and revenues. However, such emerging objects are distributed unevenly. To understand the hierarchy in place in the carbon market, this article explains the disconnection between clean energy production sites and carbon funds in which credits are created. Given the fundamental need to understand the creation of objects of property that are, nevertheless, not fully interchangeable between the site and the fund, this article aims to draw renewed attention to the concept of spheres of exchange. The argument is built upon ethnographic fieldwork undertaken on-site in the Utility Company’s offices and the World Bank headquarters.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 277-290
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1444667
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Author-Name: Gavin Benke
Author-X-Name-First: Gavin
Author-X-Name-Last: Benke
Title: Humor and heuristics: culture, genre, and economic thought in The Big Short
Abstract: 
 This article uses the 2015 film, The Big Short, to explore the limits of representing and critiquing Wall Street culture on film. Critics have praised the film, suggesting that it offers an account of the 2007–2008 financial crisis that both critiques Wall Street culture and democratizes financial knowledge. I argue that the film is an early representative example of a public narrative based on behavioral economics. A popular movie informed by this discipline has a good deal of political potential for challenging injustices produced by neoliberal approaches to the financial services industry. However, I also argue that despite this political potential, The Big Short is unable to fundamentally challenge the belief in efficient markets that justify many of Wall Street’s practices. I also argue that the film uses unexamined and problematic understandings of both class and gender in characterizing the film’s protagonists.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 303-314
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1445005
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Author-Name: Chris Jefferis
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Jefferis
Title: Financial performativity as evidence of immanence: the phenomenology of liquidity crisis in contemporary markets for risk
Abstract: 
 The sociologist Bruno Latour has often expressed aversion to immanent critique, framing actor-network theory in terms of focus on visible phenomena. In spite of this, research on financial performativity inspired by Latour’s perspective can still be interpreted in terms of immanent critique and related to Political Economy (a critical discipline), through Kant’s critique of metaphysics as a ‘regulative axiom’. Research on financial performativity has uncovered evidence of the existence of constructive processes that show how an idea (like a financial model) can become something like an ‘object’. This ‘objectivity’ appears to contradict Kant’s critique of metaphysics – that there always remains a gap between our ideas and the world itself. This paper therefore explores financial performativity as a ‘contradiction’, historicizing it to argue that ‘Barnesian performativity’ and ‘financial liquidity’ are ‘immanent’ to one another in the events of recent financial crises. The paper conducts this interpretation to provide a new conceptualization of ‘financial liquidity’ that is more empirically apparent, helping to overcome some of the limits in the discussion of ‘liquidity’ in Political Economy (that Latour might want to highlight), where discussion occurs in metaphysical terms difficult to connect to actual events.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 291-302
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1445006
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Author-Name: Laura C. Brown
Author-X-Name-First: Laura C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Brown
Title: Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff, edited by Bill Maurer and Lana Swartz
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 365-368
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1451353
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Author-Name: Michael J. Mouat
Author-X-Name-First: Michael J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Mouat
Author-Name: Russell Prince
Author-X-Name-First: Russell
Author-X-Name-Last: Prince
Title: Cultured meat and cowless milk: on making markets for animal-free food
Abstract: 
 According to its proponents, animal-free animal food products, such as cultured meat and synthetic cow’s milk, have the potential to overcome various environmental, health and ethical challenges that have emerged around global animal product consumption and the industrial agriculture that is needed to support it. Apart from the myriad of technical problems making animal-free food products, critics have pointed out the blurry ontological status of the food and the ethical challenges therein, and have questioned the veracity of the various promissory narratives being produced. This paper considers animal-free food from a social studies of economies and markets (SSEM) perspective. As a market that currently mostly only exists in potential, an SSEM perspective can reveal the various social and material relations that comprise the (bio)capital formation that will underpin any market-to-be, an aspect of markets that are often invisible once markets are up and running. Moreover, this perspective details the intimate role markets have in establishing the ethical and ontological aspects of animal-free foods in a political economy shaped by neoliberalisation and financialisation.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 315-329
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1452277
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Author-Name: Keith M. Murphy
Author-X-Name-First: Keith M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Murphy
Title: On problem-setting the cosmopolitical: a response to Tironi and Hermansen
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 348-350
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1456952
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Author-Name: Marisol de la Cadena
Author-X-Name-First: Marisol
Author-X-Name-Last: de la Cadena
Title: Cosmopolitical zoo: a response to Tironi and Hermansen
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 351-353
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1456953
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Author-Name: Nicholas D’Avella
Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas
Author-X-Name-Last: D’Avella
Title: Moral technologies of economic life: Fridman’s Freedom from Work and Wilkis’ The Moral Power of Money
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 359-364
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1461121
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Author-Name: Yamina Tadjeddine
Author-X-Name-First: Yamina
Author-X-Name-Last: Tadjeddine
Title: L’Emprise des Marchés: Comprendre leur Fonctionnement pour Pouvoir les Changer, by Michel Callon
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 368-371
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1461123
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Author-Name: Robert O. McDonald
Author-X-Name-First: Robert O.
Author-X-Name-Last: McDonald
Title: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, by Nancy MacLean
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 371-375
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1463277
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Martín Tironi
Author-X-Name-First: Martín
Author-X-Name-Last: Tironi
Author-Name: Pablo Hermansen
Author-X-Name-First: Pablo
Author-X-Name-Last: Hermansen
Title: Notes for a cosmopolitical design: regarding the comments from Marisol de la Cadena and Keith M. Murphy
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 354-358
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1483254
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Author-Name: Samantha Close
Author-X-Name-First: Samantha
Author-X-Name-Last: Close
Title: Being Digital Citizens, by Engin Isin and Evelyn Ruppert
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 519-522
Issue: 5
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1092462
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Author-Name: Tracey Jensen
Author-X-Name-First: Tracey
Author-X-Name-Last: Jensen
Title: The Cultural Politics of Austerity: Past and Present in Austere Times, by Rebecca Bramall
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 522-524
Issue: 5
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1093953
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Author-Name: Leigh Claire La Berge
Author-X-Name-First: Leigh Claire
Author-X-Name-Last: La Berge
Title: Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life, by Max Haiven
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 524-526
Issue: 5
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1117515
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Author-Name: Hannah Appel
Author-X-Name-First: Hannah
Author-X-Name-Last: Appel
Title: Speculative Markets: Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria, by Kristin Peterson
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 513-519
Issue: 5
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1142888
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Author-Name: Taylor C. Nelms
Author-X-Name-First: Taylor C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Nelms
Title: alt.economy: strategies, tensions, challenges
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 507-512
Issue: 5
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1166446
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Author-Name: David Yarrow
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Yarrow
Author-Name: Matthias Kranke
Author-X-Name-First: Matthias
Author-X-Name-Last: Kranke
Title: The performativity of sports statistics: towards a research agenda
Abstract: 
 Statistical analysis has become increasingly integral to contemporary sports. Most existing studies, regardless of whether they endorse or criticise the growing influence of statistical analysis in professional sports, attribute agential capacities exclusively to humans. In this conceptual article, we challenge both what we call ‘instrumentalist’ and ‘romantic’ approaches by applying insights from the expanding literature on the performative effects of statistical models in economic markets to the area of sports. Rather than understanding statistics as mirrors of an objective reality, we conceptualise them as interventions in the analysis and conduct of sports. The use of sophisticated techniques for data collection and analysis by scouts, managers, referees and athletes has profound feedback effects on how these sports professionals come to understand their sport and seek to improve their performance. An interdisciplinary performative understanding of statistics allows for an unpacking of the socio-material mechanisms through which data-heavy analytical technologies shape processes of valuation, commercialisation and regulation in professional sports.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 445-457
Issue: 5
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1202856
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Author-Name: Paul Gottschling
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Gottschling
Title: Making architecture compete: open-ended accumulation meets objectification and singularisation in the UK construction industry
Abstract: 
 Sociologists over the last two decades have taken inspiration from actor-network theory to suggest that competition, like ‘the market’, takes place through a dynamic of detaching objects from one set of relations and reattaching them within another: objectification and singularisation. Yet there has been little theorisation of how competition differs between situations. To approach this question, we can ask how competition, as a process of objectification and singularisation, interacts with other patterns of movement. Ethnographers have described one such pattern in the everyday work of architects. Here a building emerges from an ever-increasing number of ‘versions’, images and models, in an open-ended accumulation. This study considers the interaction between, first, the objectification and singularisation of competition and, second, the open-ended accumulation of architectural work. To do so, I examine architectural competitions in the UK. I draw from document analysis of one competition for a school in northern England, as well as interviews with architects about their work on competitions. This study concludes that architectural competitions repeat the multiplicity of architectural work but in a more delimited form. Multiplicity is not ‘cut-off’ so much as winnowed down through an explicit process of selecting images and blocks of text.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 476-487
Issue: 5
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1204346
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Author-Name: Carsten Holger Wergin
Author-X-Name-First: Carsten Holger
Author-X-Name-Last: Wergin
Title: Dreamings beyond ‘opportunity’: the collaborative economics of an aboriginal heritage trail
Abstract: 
 This article presents the Lurujarri Heritage Trail, an Indigenous tourism experience in Northwest Australia as exemplary for a world different from the teleological-minded futurism of neoliberal market economics. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork undertaken between 2011 and 2015, it first outlines how in 1987 the Trail was established at the very margins of the Australian economy. Through its emphasis on the here and now that is grounded in a collaboration of people and land and acknowledges diverse worldviews and ontological differences, the Trail today offers its participants a means to experience Indigenous culture as different from Western politics and development policies. As a result, its allegedly marginal Dreaming (Bugarrigarra) leads beyond the pursuit of economic opportunity and in doing so enabled the defeat of large-scale industrialisation in the region.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 488-506
Issue: 5
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1210532
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Author-Name: Jean-Samuel Beuscart
Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Samuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Beuscart
Author-Name: Kevin Mellet
Author-X-Name-First: Kevin
Author-X-Name-Last: Mellet
Author-Name: Marie Trespeuch
Author-X-Name-First: Marie
Author-X-Name-Last: Trespeuch
Title: Reactivity without legitimacy? Online consumer reviews in the restaurant industry
Abstract: 
 In recent years, web sites where individual consumers can rate and review goods and services have mushroomed all over the Internet. Restaurants are particularly affected by online reviewing. If the impact of online consumer reviews (OCRs) on the demand side of markets is now well understood and measured, few studies examine the reception of this new evaluation method by those who are assessed. Based on interviews with French restaurant managers, our research shows that OCRs systems reconfigure relations of accountability in the restaurant industry. We use the notion of reactivity to describe the mechanisms through which the new evaluation system transforms the activity of restaurants. We also examine the affects surrounding the reception of ratings and reviews by restaurant managers and the moral criteria that accompany their discourses on online reviews. Many restaurants consider online reviews as a brutal and hypocritical mode of judgment. The judgment produced by online ratings and reviews is not easily borne by restaurant managers, because it challenges the conventions of quality they had previously internalized as legitimate, that is, those produced by professional experts. We interpret this ambivalent reception as the unfinished movement of transforming a performative reputation device into a legitimate evaluation institution.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 458-475
Issue: 5
Volume: 9
Year: 2016
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1210534
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Author-Name: Sonya Marie Scott
Author-X-Name-First: Sonya Marie
Author-X-Name-Last: Scott
Title: Languages of economic crises: narrating, resisting, speaking otherwise
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 353-360
Issue: 5
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1657036
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Author-Name: Daniele Besomi
Author-X-Name-First: Daniele
Author-X-Name-Last: Besomi
Title: The metaphors of crises
Abstract: 
 Metaphors, analogies, and other figures of speech are ubiquitous, and far from being mere ornaments they have heuristic, illustrative, analytical, methodological, or epistemological roles in scientific discourse. The present paper offers the prolegomena to a metaphorology of economic crises and business cycles, from the perspective of an historian of economic thought.The paper traces a general historical outline of the usage of metaphors applied to these phenomena, and offers a characterization of the metaphorical transfer of features from the source domain to the target domain. It shows, by referring to storm and pendulum metaphors, how the selective transfer to crises and cycles of some properties rather than others contributes to define different, even incompatible, interpretation of the role of these phenomena in the working of the economic system. The study of the actual usage of metaphors (as opposed to a cataloguing of source domains supposed to provide a unique view of the target) is therefore important to throw light the tacit presuppositions on which the understanding of crises is based.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 361-381
Issue: 5
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1519843
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Author-Name: Sonya Marie Scott
Author-X-Name-First: Sonya Marie
Author-X-Name-Last: Scott
Title: Vultures, debt and desire: the vulture metaphor and Argentina’s sovereign debt crisis
Abstract: 
 This paper explores the development of the vulture metaphor in relation to economic ideas, focusing on its reference to vulture funds in post-2001 Argentina. It traces the metaphorical connection between ‘vultures’ and the extraction of debt back to Elizabethan England, to Shakespeare’s poem Venus and Adonis (1593). In the same period, we also see English law’s earliest cases of the predatory purchasing of land titles in order to dispossess the poor. Contemporary cases involving sovereign nations defending against vulture funds have cited case law in the Elizabethan context in order to invoke a moral claim against speculation in distressed sovereign debt. The moral charge of the vulture metaphor – laden with connotations of greed, desire and manipulation – contrasts with legal arguments about repayment based on the rationality of contract law which demands repayment of debt and presumes equality of party. I explore this tension in both historical and contemporary litigation, ultimately focusing upon the performance of position taken by vulture funds, on one side, and the Argentine government on the other, in the ‘case of the century’ – NML Capital v. the Republic of Argentina.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 382-400
Issue: 5
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1613254
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Author-Name: Marcelo Vieta
Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo
Author-X-Name-Last: Vieta
Title: Recuperating and (re)learning the language of autogestión in Argentina’s empresas recuperadas worker cooperatives
Abstract: 
 This article homes in on the recuperative and learning dimensions of Argentina’s empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores worker cooperatives (ERTs, worker-recuperated enterprises). Drawing on the author’s sociological, ethnographic, and political economic work with Argentina’s ERTs since 2005, the article theorizes autogestión – the collective self-management of associated labour – from its take up by ERT movement protagonists. The article explores and theorizes how ERT workers come to practice autogestión, what they actually take back in the process of occupying and controlling the formerly capitalist workplaces that had employed them, and how their projects of cooperative production are ensconced in a ‘language of autogestión’ – recuperating and (re)learning other economic notions and practices against and beyond capitalocentric discourses. Grounded in a class-struggle Marxist perspective, the paper ultimately proposes that ERT workers collectively recuperate three overarching dimensions of productive life from capital: (1) the self-valorization of living labour, (2) cooperation in the labour process, and (3) the socialization of surpluses and wealth. These recuperations of autogestión, the article concludes, (their ‘language of autogestión’) offer evocative suggestions for envisioning less-exploitive forms of work, more socially just and democratic workplaces, and for challenging and beginning to move beyond neoliberal logics.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 401-422
Issue: 5
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1544164
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Author-Name: Jose Luis Carretero Miramar
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Author-Name: Christopher Bradd
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher
Author-X-Name-Last: Bradd
Title: Confronting Spain’s crises: from the language of the plazas to the rise of Podemos
Abstract: 
 In 2010, on the heels of the global financial crisis, two major crises hit Spain as its massive real estate bubble burst. The first was economic and had disastrous effects in all sectors of Spanish society. The second was a crisis of political legitimacy which called into question the validity of the very political institutions created during the transition from the Francoist dictatorship to democracy. What is particularly unique about Spain’s contemporary experience is that the financial crisis, by putting people in serious economic peril, opened a dialogue about the lost opportunities in the transition from fascism to democracy. The rapid politicization of a massive component of Spanish society post-crisis amounted to a collective awakening, best captured by a popular slogan of protest in 2011 ‘dormíamos, despertamos.’ Tracing some the history of the language of the plazas from Spain’s most important post-crisis protests to the language of institutional change, reveals both the profound effects of the global financial crisis as well as the cultural and generational shift in the contemporary political arena. This paper analyzes the way in which these new movements present a alternative to the political narrative.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 423-440
Issue: 5
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1657035
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Author-Name: Nancy Worth
Author-X-Name-First: Nancy
Author-X-Name-Last: Worth
Title: Making sense of precarity: talking about economic insecurity with millennials in Canada
Abstract: 
 While there are many effective metrics for quantifying economic precarity, talking to young people about their experiences in the labour and housing markets reveals a gap in explanatory language around living in/through crisis. In particular, in my research with Canadian millennials (born from the early 1980s through the mid-90s), although they could state the facts about how hard it is to get a good job or afford decent housing, what this pervasive sense of insecurity feels like is much harder to put into words. For many, a generalized sense of precariousness invades everyday life, even when work and housing are relatively secure. Thinking through this sense of anxiety, that the future might not be any better than the present and that young people might not be as well off as their parents, leads to a generational understanding of economic crisis – and for a group of young adults who came of age during the downturn of 2008–2009, examining how they talk (or cannot talk) about precarity is revealing.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 441-447
Issue: 5
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1485048
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Author-Name: Katherine Gibson
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Author-X-Name-Last: Gibson
Author-Name: Sonya Scott
Author-X-Name-First: Sonya
Author-X-Name-Last: Scott
Title: Language, gender and crisis: An interview with Katherine Gibson
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 448-460
Issue: 5
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1542609
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Author-Name: Danya Glabau
Author-X-Name-First: Danya
Author-X-Name-Last: Glabau
Title: Feminists write the Anthropocene: three tales of possibility in Late Capitalism
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 541-548
Issue: 6
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1350597
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Author-Name: Melina Sherman
Author-X-Name-First: Melina
Author-X-Name-Last: Sherman
Title: Opiates for the masses: constructing a market for prescription (pain)killers
Abstract: 
 This paper examines the discursive and material construction of the ongoing US opioid epidemic. It argues that the epidemic cannot be understood apart from the reciprocal relation of cultural and economic processes that have made possible the formation of a market for prescription painkillers. Through an analysis of the articulation and interaction of medical, cultural, political, and market discourses, the author shows how these have been mobilized within a network of actors and institutions in ways that govern the economic life of opioid products. Dramatic transformations in the domain of pain management have coincided with shifting attitudes toward drug use in popular culture and transformations in health and regulatory policy to orchestrate the materiality of an enormous market for opioid products and make intelligible the problem of a nationwide ‘epidemic’ of opioid use and abuse.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 485-497
Issue: 6
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1352010
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Author-Name: Jyotirmaya Tripathy
Author-X-Name-First: Jyotirmaya
Author-X-Name-Last: Tripathy
Title: Development as biopolitics: food security and the contemporary Indian experience
Abstract: 
 Development is concerned with the biological security and well-being of people, and so all development theory and practice are biopolitical in a fundamental sense. The paper argues that for development to be made meaningful, it needs to legitimate itself through the production of healthy bodies, which can be realized through food security, immunization drives, and housing schemes among others. A postcolonial democratic state like India makes an effort to protect its people from hunger and draws its legitimacy from the same. Yet at the same time, the supposed development of the nation implies a concurrent elision of the weak and the vulnerable. Drawing upon India’s experiment with food security, public distribution systems, and other similar schemes, the paper advances an idea of development that is not only inherently biopolitical, but also a compromise between the commitment to protect people from hunger and the need for working around international agencies. While doing so, the paper borrows from the theoretical vocabulary of Foucault, Agamben, and others to historicize the modernist idea of protecting citizens as well as the reality of deaths from hunger and development-induced displacement.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 498-509
Issue: 6
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1354312
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Author-Name: Tomás Undurraga
Author-X-Name-First: Tomás
Author-X-Name-Last: Undurraga
Title: Making news of value: exploiting dissonances in economic journalism
Abstract: 
 This article explores the multiple modes of valuation that pervade newsmaking in economic journalism. It does so by exploring the different ways in which journalists at Valor Econômico, the leading economic newspaper in Brazil, compete and cooperate in the production of news. Valor is a paradigmatic case for discussing valuation practices in newsmaking since its institutional promise is to produce news of value. How, if at all, do Valor journalists embrace the promise of producing news that generates value? Elaborating on Stark’s (2009. The sense of dissonance. Accounts of worth in economic life. Princeton University Press) idea of dissonance, it is contended that different orders of worth collide and cooperate within Valor newsroom. Moreover, journalists engage in a variety of valuation practices through which these orders of worth are shaped, defined, and refined, reflecting different understandings of economy and society, and different conceptions of what journalism is good for. I argue that Valor’s direction intentionally fosters a plural space of value dissonance in order to improve the quality of news reporting. I emphasise, however, that these dissonances are only productive against a larger background of consonance about what actually there is to disagree about. The article is based on a seven-month ethnography of Valor’s newsroom in São Paulo between 2013 and 2015.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 510-523
Issue: 6
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1359794
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Author-Name: Arjen van der Heide
Author-X-Name-First: Arjen
Author-X-Name-Last: van der Heide
Title: A History of British Actuarial Thought, by Craig Turnbull
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 549-552
Issue: 6
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1363074
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Author-Name: Karen Gregory
Author-X-Name-First: Karen
Author-X-Name-Last: Gregory
Title: Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 552-555
Issue: 6
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1382384
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Author-Name: Eun-Sung Kim
Author-X-Name-First: Eun-Sung
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim
Title: Senses and artifacts in market transactions: the Korean case of agricultural produce auctions
Abstract: 
 This article examines the relationship between the senses, artifacts, and trade at South Korean agricultural produce auctions. It explores the impacts of market devices on sensory interactions between auctioneers and buyers that are essential to market transactions. Through ethnographic interviews and participant observations at Garak Market, Seoul, this study compares hand signal trading with electronic trading in agricultural produce auctions. It analyzes how the senses affect auction price estimation and formation, as well as their contribution to economic agency and social relationship among economic actors. The study then examines the impact of new market devices in electronic trading (e.g. trading screens, computer monitors, and wireless bidding terminals) on trading’s sensory aspects of seeing or hearing. It argues that the devices change the modality of sensory interactions between auctioneers and buyers. This transforms power struggles, forming a looser but more equal relationship between auctioneers and buyers and decreasing the overall auction price in the market.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 524-540
Issue: 6
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1384931
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Author-Name: Darren Umney
Author-X-Name-First: Darren
Author-X-Name-Last: Umney
Author-Name: Taylor C. Nelms
Author-X-Name-First: Taylor C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Nelms
Author-Name: Dave O'Brien
Author-X-Name-First: Dave
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Brien
Author-Name: Fabian Muniesa
Author-X-Name-First: Fabian
Author-X-Name-Last: Muniesa
Author-Name: Liz Moor
Author-X-Name-First: Liz
Author-X-Name-Last: Moor
Author-Name: Liz McFall
Author-X-Name-First: Liz
Author-X-Name-Last: McFall
Author-Name: Melinda Cooper
Author-X-Name-First: Melinda
Author-X-Name-Last: Cooper
Author-Name: Peter Campbell
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Campbell
Title: On brutal culture
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 556-568
Issue: 6
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1387804
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Title: Editorial Board
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: ebi-ebi
Issue: 6
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1394253
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Author-Name: Sarah Muir
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Muir
Title: A politics of infinite deferral
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 483-485
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1445007
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Author-Name: Mark Kear
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Kear
Title: Innovating and improvising the social contract in the US financial borderscape
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 489-495
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1448880
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Author-Name: Andrew Sartori
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Sartori
Title: Periodizing Keynesianism
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 480-482
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1455065
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Author-Name: Véra Ehrenstein
Author-X-Name-First: Véra
Author-X-Name-Last: Ehrenstein
Title: The friction of the mundane: on the problematic marketization of the carbon stored by trees in the tropics
Abstract: 
 Carbon dioxide released from the burning of fossil fuels is a major concern of our times. There is now a political agreement that these emissions must decrease. So far one way forward has been to design and maintain carbon markets. As part of this process, trees in the tropics have been enrolled in peculiar transactions: actions such as reforesting a land of degraded savannah or preserving a piece of forest can produce tradable emission credits to offset against CO2 emissions in distant locations. Based on a multi-sited investigation of carbon offsetting, including fieldwork in the Congo, the paper presents a journey across different marketization sites where the enrolment of forest carbon into market exchanges can be seen to be at stake. Several operations are foregrounded, from United Nations negotiations and the measurement of carbon stocks, to business venture and legal work. The paper proposes a focus on the mundane that attends to details and frictions. This provides a deflationary story of the marketization of forest carbon, a story of contingencies and unexpected ramifications.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 404-419
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1461675
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Author-Name: Gay Hawkins
Author-X-Name-First: Gay
Author-X-Name-Last: Hawkins
Title: The skin of commerce: governing through plastic food packaging
Abstract: 
 Is it possible to say that we have become governed by plastic? This paper uses the introduction of plastic packaging into food markets in the post-Second World War Australia to pursue this question. This empirical foray is informed by recent debates about the ‘government of things’ and explorations about how political and ontological processes interact. Making plastic packaging into a mundane market device involved the development of accountability relations that established the ‘responsibilities’ of the package: what it was obliged to do across various networks from production to self-service. Equally important were processes that attached consumers to this new material and provoked changed practices. This history shows how the normalisation of plastic packaging changed the ontological status of food in markets. Plastic provided a new point of articulation between the natural and the synthetic in relation to governing the life of food that also conditioned the governance of consumers: convincing them that food wrapped in plastic was better across numerous registers. What the case of mundane plastic packaging shows is that ‘government’ does not exist first and enrol technologies to achieve its aims. Rather, that devices and technologies can become capable of introducing new conducts into markets and everyday life.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 386-403
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1463864
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Author-Name: Clara Elisabetta Mattei
Author-X-Name-First: Clara Elisabetta
Author-X-Name-Last: Mattei
Title: Keynesianism, technocracy and class struggle
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 476-479
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1466189
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Author-Name: Kimberley D. McKinson
Author-X-Name-First: Kimberley D.
Author-X-Name-Last: McKinson
Title: Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean, by Peter James Hudson
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 496-499
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1475290
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Author-Name: Catherine Grandclément
Author-X-Name-First: Catherine
Author-X-Name-Last: Grandclément
Author-Name: Alain Nadaï
Author-X-Name-First: Alain
Author-X-Name-Last: Nadaï
Title: Devising the consumer of the competitive electricity market: the mundane meter, the unbundling doctrine, and the re-bundling of choice
Abstract: 
 This paper follows the sinuous trajectory of the joint design of an electricity meter and the technical architecture of the smart home in France. The analysis points to the articulation between the mundane work of material and market design and the profound, pervasive, and political issue of ‘agencing’ consumption. Three figures of the consumer appeared along with the evolving design of the smart home and meter: a behavioural energy saver; a market offer chooser, and an attached consumer. The ‘unbundling’ doctrine, which states that competition must be sorted out from monopoly in order for the electricity market to function, was often invoked to justify changes in the smart meter and smart home designs. The role of the doctrine was, however, ambiguous. As a rather abstract perspective on the working of markets, unbundling seems to be exceeded by concrete and mundane marketing attempts at re-bundling choice. And yet consumer figures doctrinally compatible with classical/neoliberal economics, which considers the consumer to be an autonomous self, leave open the ground for an attached consumer to emerge, suggesting that the consumer is in fact always ‘attached’ rather than detached.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 440-457
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1488269
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Author-Name: Geoff Mann
Author-X-Name-First: Geoff
Author-X-Name-Last: Mann
Title: At first sight something impossible
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 486-488
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1493612
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Author-Name: Christian Frankel
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Frankel
Title: The ‘s’ in markets: mundane market concepts and how to know a (strawberry) market
Abstract: 
 This paper argues that concepts of markets as empirical objects are central to singling out particular markets as objects of analysis, and thus that market studies need to systematically investigate market concepts as part of advancing the agenda of adding a plural 's' and making particular markets object of inquiry. This argument is made by revisiting the strawberry market in Sologne, France as analyzed by M. Callon and M.-F. Garcia-Parpet, respectively. Two decades have passed since the publishing of The Laws of the Market, and considering its great impact, this anniversary gives occasion for revisiting the central place the particular market for strawberries is given in the argument and discussing the concepts developed by Callon with a view to how Garcia-Parpet comes to identify a particular market. This revisit shows that although Callon in part distracts from a systematic attention to concepts of market as an empirical object of inquiry, he also offers distinctions valuable for better understanding concepts of markets. It also shows that, following one part of Callon's argument, we should not expect to find concrete markets and that attention to market concepts thus becomes even more important.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 458-475
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1502677
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Author-Name: Zsuzsanna Vargha
Author-X-Name-First: Zsuzsanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Vargha
Title: Assembling lines: queue management and the production of market economy in post-socialist services
Abstract: 
 ‘Time priority’ by queuing is the epitome of market fairness in stock exchanges, while queuing also symbolizes the shortage economy of state-socialism. How are mundane queues made to constitute markets in settings where they performed anti-markets? The paper looks at this problem through ethnomethodology, which sees queuing as the prime example of how social-moral order is produced by participants of situations. Queues appear out of thin air, and can be analyzed as a ‘designed enterprise’ of small utterances and bodily gestures, accomplishing ordinariness. The paper rethinks how this theoretical approach can gauge the properties of ‘invisible lines’ in automated queues, and broadens its scope by framing queuers as objects of organizational control, and queues as not purely social but socio-technical accomplishments. Based on the observation of a digital waiting system in Hungarian banking, the paper shows how automated queue management changes the temporality and accountability between individuals and organizations, and reorders post-socialist banking as distinctly market-based service. Personal-physical lines are replaced with material ‘governance pairs’, which not only assess but rather format customers’ financial needs. Market economy, as produced in mundane automation ties together an obscure order for service customers with total accountability for bank employees’ performance.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 420-439
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1503610
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Author-Name: Daniel Neyland
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Neyland
Author-Name: Véra Ehrenstein
Author-X-Name-First: Véra
Author-X-Name-Last: Ehrenstein
Author-Name: Sveta Milyaeva
Author-X-Name-First: Sveta
Author-X-Name-Last: Milyaeva
Title: Mundane market matters: from ordinary to profound and back again
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 377-385
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1506944
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Author-Name: Janette Webb
Author-X-Name-First: Janette
Author-X-Name-Last: Webb
Author-Name: David Hawkey
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Hawkey
Title: On (not) assembling a market for sustainable energy: heat network infrastructure and British cities
Abstract: 
 Energy policies increasingly rely on market instruments to meet societal objectives for climate change mitigation. We explore the application of such instruments in low carbon heat markets. Using a conceptual framework derived from actor network theory and economic sociology, we examine the role of technical-economic models as market devices in two heat network proposals in British cities. Government intermediaries relied on the models to enact the mutual financial and carbon benefits of an area-wide heat market, and to enrol multiple public sector organisations in innovation. In practice, the models produced the opposite response: parties synthesised the modelled cost–benefit calculations into the existing public services market agencement and translated the model numbers ino opportunities to secure competitive advantage for their own organisation. These activities undermined the projected cost and carbon saving logic of the collective actor solution. The findings demonstrate the potent economic agency of market-emulating public finance and competitive procurement instruments in governing such organisational decisions, and indicate the limited traction of a low carbon calculus, which lacked significant political or senior management sponsorship. Questions are posed about the formatting of economic agency suited to securing the common goods of a sustainable society.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 8-20
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1226193
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Author-Name: David Beer
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Beer
Title: The data analytics industry and the promises of real-time knowing: perpetuating and deploying a rationality of speed
Abstract: 
 This article draws upon a sample of 34 data analytics providers in order to explore the rhetorical framing of the speediness of the data analytic solutions that they offer. General perceptions of cultural speed-up frame understandings of organisational life, against this backdrop of data analytics are presented as a potential solution to the need to speed-up and keep-up with the competition. As a result, it is argued that notions of speedy analytics are central to the spread and intensification of data-led decision-making, governance and ordering processes. The promises of real-time knowing are one means by which organisational speed and agility are seen to be achievable. The result is the pushing back of the limits of datafication. This article is concerned with the power of the data analytics industry and the powerful ways in which this industry presents and projects properties and promises onto data and data analytics. It suggests that this industry taps into, cultivates and then attempts to deploy the wider rationality of a need for speed.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 21-33
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1230771
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Author-Name: Matthew Watson
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Watson
Title: Rousseau’s Crusoe myth: the unlikely provenance of the neoclassical homo economicus
Abstract: 
 The neoclassical homo economicus has escaped the narrow confines of economic theory and is today embodied countless times over in the everyday behaviour that so much of the modern economy is set up precisely to serve. Not all of the authors of leading books on economic principles have named the neoclassical homo economicus, but when they have done so it is overwhelmingly in the same way. They have given him the human form of a Robinson Crusoe figure, despite the fact that his behavioural motivations and his practical conduct owe next-to-nothing to Daniel Defoe’s original characterisation. I suggest that the route to today’s cultural familiarity with the neoclassical homo economicus instead passes through the entirely unwitting hands of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He substituted Defoe’s account of the castaway’s continuing deference to prevailing social norms with his own idealised vision of how the individual might use solitude to escape the corrupting influences of modern society. It is altogether another desocialised individual also bearing the Crusoe name who has latterly shaped many of the economics textbooks’ renderings of the neoclassical homo economicus. However, we can get to him only by first understanding the essential features of Rousseau’s Crusoe myth.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 81-96
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1233903
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Author-Name: Brett Christophers
Author-X-Name-First: Brett
Author-X-Name-Last: Christophers
Title: The performativity of the yield curve
Abstract: 
 This article explores the wide-ranging influence of the yield curve – a diagrammatic device for representing the term structure of effective interest rates on market-traded debt instruments – in contemporary monetary, financial and economic life. Drawing on the expanding literature on financial performativity, including within the field of cultural economy, the article submits that by virtue of its centrality to multiple, closely interconnected and often highly recursive sets of relations between economies, financial markets and central banks, the yield curve is performative at a range of different levels; and, parsing various different extant understandings of performativity, the article theorizes the particular nature of such performativity in the yield curve context. Against the grain of the bulk of the literature on financial performativity, however, the article also endeavors to connect the yield curve’s performativity explicitly to questions of privilege (the privileges of representation) and power (the power to perform) and their unequal distribution. That is to say, the article argues that to understand the multidimensional performativity of the yield curve, we need to draw out its political as well as cultural economy.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 63-80
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1236031
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Author-Name: Diane Coyle
Author-X-Name-First: Diane
Author-X-Name-Last: Coyle
Title: All to play for in measuring the economy
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 122-125
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1240703
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Author-Name: Peter Campbell
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Campbell
Author-Name: Tamsin Cox
Author-X-Name-First: Tamsin
Author-X-Name-Last: Cox
Author-Name: Dave O’Brien
Author-X-Name-First: Dave
Author-X-Name-Last: O’Brien
Title: The social life of measurement: how methods have shaped the idea of culture in urban regeneration
Abstract: 
 Although ‘culture-led regeneration’ has been critiqued as both a concept and practice, it is clear that policy-makers continue to make efforts to use cultural activity of varying forms to achieve ends which could be (and are) described in terms of urban ‘regeneration’. Whilst the idea of culture-led urban regeneration had gained considerable prominence in a range of policy by the early twenty-first century, many questions have remained over how exactly such ‘regenerative’ outcomes could be convincingly demonstrated, despite much activity to attempt such demonstration over the course of preceding years. The desire for convincing evidence can be seen in a continued, and increasing, focus on evaluation, and methods aimed at providing evidence of impact and outcomes. In light of the renewed political focus in recent years on ‘proving’ the effects and value of cultural activity, this paper considers the continuation of practice in this area, and asks what lessons, if any, have been learned in evaluative practice which seeks to demonstrate the regenerative effects of culture. In light of the continuation of apparently problematic practices, the paper seeks to delineate and account for what has been learned, and what has not.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 49-62
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1248474
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Author-Name: William Davies
Author-X-Name-First: William
Author-X-Name-Last: Davies
Title: How are we now? Real-time mood-monitoring as valuation
Abstract: 
 In a digital society, we are frequently invited to communicate our present affective state via interfaces. These include smart-phone apps which allow users to track their mood in ‘real-time’, plus touchpads in organisations and public spaces which seek rapid feedback on whether an experience is positive or negative. In contrast to the use of surveys as tools of valuation, these technologies seek to capture experience in ‘real-time’, which can then be viewed and evaluated critically at a later time. Based on study of a number of mood-monitoring technologies, this paper highlights some of the ways in which they challenge conventional accounts of (e)valuation. In particular, rather than inviting individuals to represent their feelings towards the past numerically, they invite them to make uncritical expressions of positive or negative mood in the present. The central question of value is no longer how much is something valued, but whether or not it is valued. Quantitative and calculated analysis of positive and negative emotions occurs subsequently.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 34-48
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1258000
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Author-Name: Koray Caliskan
Author-X-Name-First: Koray
Author-X-Name-Last: Caliskan
Title: Explaining the end of military tutelary regime and the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey
Abstract: 
 What were the dynamics behind the July 15 2016 coup attempt in Turkey? At a time when academic literature has been focusing on the dissolution of the country’s military tutelary regime, how can this military coup attempt be explained? As an early response to this unanticipated puzzle, I argue that the success of civilian moves towards the dissolution of the military’s political power contributed – paradoxically – both to the emergence and to the failure of a coup organized by a junta of Gulenist officers and their collaborators. Through a description of the historical evolution of civil–military relations, I explain the dissolution of the military tutelary regime with reference to a combination of push and pull factors. The interaction of these push and pull factors presents the historical context behind the emergence and failure of the July 15 failed coup in Turkey.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 97-111
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1260628
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Author-Name: Antoine Hennion
Author-X-Name-First: Antoine
Author-X-Name-Last: Hennion
Title: Attachments, you say? … How a concept collectively emerges in one research group
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 112-121
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1260629
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Author-X-Name-First: Melinda
Author-X-Name-Last: Cooper
Author-Name: Liz McFall
Author-X-Name-First: Liz
Author-X-Name-Last: McFall
Title: Ten years after: it’s the economy  culture, stupid!
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 1-7
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1267026
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Author-Name: Michelle C. Forelle
Author-X-Name-First: Michelle C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Forelle
Title: ‘Then you are making riskless money’: a critical discourse analysis of credit default swap coverage in the financial trade press
Abstract: 
 Recently, scholars begun to urge an approach to the study of finance that interrogates the accepted wisdom of financial models and practices by examining the forces of power behind their development. Drawing from the field of cultural studies, Hardin and Rottinghaus (in their 2015 article, “Introducing a cultural approach to technology in financial markets”) advocate for a cultural studies of finance, which emphasizes the critical consideration of the co-constructive nature of financial technologies and cultures. This paper builds off that provocation using the concept of ‘rhetorical closure’ (as described by Pinch and Bijker in 2012) to explore how industry media aimed at derivatives developers, traders, and investment bankers worked to define the meanings of new financial technologies. Using critical discourse analysis, this study examines how credit default swaps (CDSs) were presented in the financial industry media in the years 1995–2007, and how this framing contributed to the politics of these artifacts. It finds that the financial industry media produced a discourse about CDSs using multiple overlapping frames that overgeneralized the success of CDSs from narrowly specific evidence and applied constant competitive pressure to adopt new financial technologies. These discourses implicitly encouraged the rapid adoption and broad application of CDSs, thus helping to (re)produce a financial culture in which self-interest and short-term gains were prioritized.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 97-109
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1407815
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Author-Name: Emaeyak Peter Sylvanus
Author-X-Name-First: Emaeyak Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Sylvanus
Author-Name: Obiocha Purity Eze-Emaeyak
Author-X-Name-First: Obiocha Purity
Author-X-Name-Last: Eze-Emaeyak
Title: The business of film music in mainstream Nollywood: competing without advantage
Abstract: 
 This article addresses the business of film music in mainstream Nollywood. It does so by focusing on the materiality of the industry as an institution: its social organisation and systems of film music production; markets; networks; and power relations. Specifically, the arguments rely on social organisational theories, and economic concepts such as vertical integration and market competition alongside inferences from interviews with insider-practitioners. Findings reveal that the Nollywood film music industry is characterised by non-institutionalised vertical integration within a perfectly competitive market in which its film music composers are, essentially, competing without advantage.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 141-153
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1409131
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Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca
Author-X-Name-Last: Bramall
Title: Shaping Taxpayers: Values in Action at the Swedish Tax Agency, by Lotta Björklund Larsen
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 167-169
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1413412
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Author-Name: Gert Meyers
Author-X-Name-First: Gert
Author-X-Name-Last: Meyers
Author-Name: Ine Van Hoyweghen
Author-X-Name-First: Ine
Author-X-Name-Last: Van Hoyweghen
Title: ‘This could be our reality in the next five to ten years’: a blogpost platform as an expectation generation device on the future of insurance markets
Abstract: 
 William James (1919) characterises hypotheses as either live or dead. A hypothesis is live when it is taken into account as a ‘real possibility’. We follow James’ suggestion to not attribute intrinsic properties to hypotheses, but rather investigate how they came into being and look at the effects they generate. Expectations of digital technologies are a topic of vivid debate in the insurance industry. Before these expectations can become ‘live’, they have, in the first place, to be generated by market devices. We investigate how the reinsurance blogpost platform Open Minds functions as an ‘expectation generation device’ on the future of insurance markets. Combining Beckert’s work on the role of fictional expectations with the pragmatist turn in sociology of markets, we propose to study ‘expectation generation devices’, provoking expectations on economic markets. In our empirical analysis, we demonstrate the explicit fictional character of the Open Minds contributions, and analyse how a contained space of openness is generated to provoke expectations. We demonstrate how Open Minds can become live through circulation to other expectation generation sites in the insurance industry and beyond. We conclude by reflecting on the importance of expectation generation devices as a particular type of market devices.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 125-140
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1418408
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Author-Name: Alexander Dobeson
Author-X-Name-First: Alexander
Author-X-Name-Last: Dobeson
Title: The wrong fish: maneuvering the boundaries of market-based resource management
Abstract: 
 How can economic actors stay afloat in a highly volatile market environment? By drawing on ethnographic material from the Icelandic fishing industry, this article demonstrates how fishers maneuver the boundaries of market-based resource management that tend to ignore the ever-changing environment of the sea. The empirical material shows how fishers skillfully manipulate their socio-technical environment in order to adjust the market for so-called Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) with the movement of fish stocks. Accordingly, three coping practices are deployed: (i) tinkering with accounts, (ii) socio-technical conversion, and (iii) redefining boundaries. While these practices allow fishers to stay afloat, they are likewise undermined by the ever-changing environment of the sea, consequently fueling a money-induced cycle of socio-technical problem-solving and breakdowns.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 110-124
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1426031
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Author-Name: Vik Loveday
Author-X-Name-First: Vik
Author-X-Name-Last: Loveday
Title: The neurotic academic: anxiety, casualisation, and governance in the neoliberalising university
Abstract: 
 Based on empirical research conducted with academic staff working on fixed-term contracts, the article explores the subjective experience of anxiety in the UK’s ‘neoliberalising’ higher education (HE) sector. As HE undergoes a process of marketisation, and the teaching and research activities of academics are increasingly measured and scrutinised, the contemporary academy appears to be suffused with anxiety. Coupled with pressures facing all staff, 34% of academic employees are currently working on a fixed-term contract and so must contend with the multiple forms of uncertainty associated with their so-called ‘casualised’ positions. While anxiety is often perceived as an individualised affliction for which employees are encouraged to take personal responsibility, the article argues that it should be conceptualised in two ways: firstly, as a symptom of wider processes at work in the neoliberalising sector; and secondly, as a ‘tactic’ of what Isin [(2004). The neurotic citizen. Citizenship Studies, 8 (3), 217–235] refers to as ‘neuroliberal’ governance. The article concludes by proposing that the figure of the ‘neurotic academic’ is emblematic of the contradictions facing the contemporary academy.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 154-166
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1426032
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Author-Name: Grant Bollmer
Author-X-Name-First: Grant
Author-X-Name-Last: Bollmer
Title: The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information: The History of Information in Modern Economics, by Philip Mirowski and Edward Nik-Khah
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 169-172
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1434557
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Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Davis
Title: Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics &amp; Baroque Economies, by Verónica Gago
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 172-175
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1434812
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Author-Name: Franck Cochoy
Author-X-Name-First: Franck
Author-X-Name-Last: Cochoy
Author-Name: Christian Licoppe
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Licoppe
Author-Name: Magdalena Petersson McIntyre
Author-X-Name-First: Magdalena Petersson
Author-X-Name-Last: McIntyre
Author-Name: Niklas Sörum
Author-X-Name-First: Niklas
Author-X-Name-Last: Sörum
Title: Digitalizing consumer society: equipment and devices of digital consumption
Abstract: 
 This special issue of the Journal of Cultural Economy focuses on the digitalization of consumption and its social, cultural, ethical, political, and gendered implications. It thus answers the call for more research on how digital devices spread from the purely personal domain to multiple sociocultural domains. Through their use, new cultural practices have emerged between consumers and these devices, and devices and markets, that lead to change, in terms of consumer demand, consumption norms, and issues of ethics, culture, and power. Closely examining the role that devices play in consumption behavior enables us to address the supposed manipulative power of hi-tech companies, infrastructures, and systems at the global level, and the view ordinary market actors hold of digital appliances as empowering tools at the local level. The papers in this volume bridge ‘actor network theory' and ‘consumer culture theory' from the perspective of market ‘agencements.’ Ruckenstein-Granroth and Beauvisage-Mellet, and Arriagada-Concha focus on the device-mediated relationship between large digital market infrastructures and consumer behavior; Petersson McIntyre and Licoppe unveil the societal and cultural underpinnings of digitalized markets. Last but not least, Sörum and Soujtis address the political dimensions and implications of our new digital consumer equipment and society.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 1-11
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1702576
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Author-Name: Minna Ruckenstein
Author-X-Name-First: Minna
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruckenstein
Author-Name: Julia Granroth
Author-X-Name-First: Julia
Author-X-Name-Last: Granroth
Title: Algorithms, advertising and the intimacy of surveillance
Abstract: 
 This article develops the notion of the intimacy of surveillance, a characteristic of contemporary corporate marketing and dataveillance fueled by the accumulation of consumers’ economically valuable digital traces. By focusing on emotional reactions to targeted advertisements, we demonstrate how consumers want contradictory things: they oppose intrusive and creepy advertising based on tracking their activities, yet expect more relevant real-time analysis and probabilistic predictions anticipating their needs, desires, and plans. The tension between the two opposing aspects of corporate surveillance is crucial in terms of the intimacy of surveillance: it explains how corporate surveillance that is felt as disturbing can co-exist with pleasurable moments of being ‘seen’ by the market. The study suggests that the current situation where social media users are trying to comprehend, typically alone with their devices, what is going on in terms of continuously changing algorithmic systems, is undermining public culture. This calls for collective responses to the shared pleasures and pains while living alongside algorithms. The everyday distress and paranoia to which users of social media are exposed is an indicator of failed social arrangements in need of urgent repair.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 12-24
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1574866
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Author-Name: Thomas Beauvisage
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Beauvisage
Author-Name: Kevin Mellet
Author-X-Name-First: Kevin
Author-X-Name-Last: Mellet
Title: Mobile consumers and the retail industry: the resistible advent of a new marketing scene
Abstract: 
 Over the last ten years, marketing professionals have invested in various devices aimed at digitalizing the point of sale. Mobile phones, and the connection they open between the digital and physical worlds, are likely to profoundly renew the way organizations build the representations of consumers upon which they operate. This article aims to describe the new, mobile-based market infrastructure that is currently being implemented; the figures of the consumer it builds on and renews for marketing purposes; and the opportunities it offers to create a new marketing scene. We address this question by focusing on the world of physical retail. We show that online commerce websites and http cookies have enabled a connection between three traditionally separate figures of the consumer and associated marketing scenes: the consumer as an audience, as a shopping cart, or as a (loyalty) card. The smartphone carries the promise of pursuing this movement into store aisles. We show, however, that the domestication of physical geography to cultivate mobile consumers is particularly difficult, and so far based on a series of disparate attempts and experiments.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 25-41
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1611623
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Author-Name: Arturo Arriagada
Author-X-Name-First: Arturo
Author-X-Name-Last: Arriagada
Author-Name: Paz Concha
Author-X-Name-First: Paz
Author-X-Name-Last: Concha
Title: Cultural intermediaries in the making of branded music events: digital cultural capital in tension
Abstract: 
 Previous studies have overlooked how intermediaries and their digital cultural capital enhance the relationship between brand values and consumer identities; their specific uses of digital technologies; and how those uses are displayed in activities where intermediaries create consumer experiences. This paper thus explores the role that cultural intermediaries (music bloggers and an advertising agency) and their digital cultural capital play in making and communicating a branded music event. Briefly, intermediaries used a set of digital technologies (social media, guest lists, blogs, and websites) to create and orchestrate an authentic and exclusive experience between brands and consumers. We draw on empirical material from interviews and ethnographic work conducted in Santiago, Chile. Our study identifies digital technologies used by cultural intermediaries in communicating branded music events, including as: promotional tools; advertising campaign efficacy evaluation mechanisms; and relational objects that connect advertising agencies, music bloggers, brands, and consumers. By exploring the tensions and conflicts that arise among bloggers and advertising executives, we shed light on the uses and exchanges of digital cultural capital for commercial purposes, resulting from the connections between intermediaries that come from different fields of cultural production.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 42-53
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1652673
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Author-Name: Magdalena Petersson McIntyre
Author-X-Name-First: Magdalena
Author-X-Name-Last: Petersson McIntyre
Title: Agencing femininity: digital Mrs. Consumer in intra-action
Abstract: 
 Social media is abound with women writing about consumption goods and practices associated with femininity and heterosexual nuclear family life, such as being married, dressing, cooking and home decoration. This article examines how the housewife ideal can be an attractive identity in the 2010s and, drawing on the post-humanist performativity by Karen Barad (2007), it maps the material-discursive agencies that enable the re-emergence of this figure. Building on in-depth interviews with women who refer to themselves as influencers and bloggers, and visual and textual analyses of their Instagram-accounts, including links to sponsors and comments from followers, the article analyzes how the tensions between these women's real lives and their cyber lives, become meaningful in this technological culture. The breaking of boundaries between human and non-human resulting from digital technology has re-configured the housewife role by transforming boundaries between intimate and commercial practices. By focusing on the three areas: Transforming the feminine body, Transforming Intimacy, and Entrepreneurial femininity the article shows how agency emerges from within transforming practices of body, intimacy and entrepreneurship, intra-acting within this new housewife phenomenon. In doing so it discusses the negotiations and space for agency these women thought that digital technologies provided for them.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 54-72
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1639529
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Author-Name: Christian Licoppe
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Licoppe
Title: Liquidity and attachment in the mobile hookup culture. A comparative study of contrasted interactional patterns in the main uses of Grindr and Tinder
Abstract: 
 This study compares the interactional practices for the main types of uses of the mobile dating applications Grindr and Tinder. The analysis shows that in both cases, a majority of users share a similar orientation towards a linguistic ideology regarding ordinary conversation as a social institution, as topic-based, as allowing individuals to share and update knowledge so as to enable rapport and intimacy. However, Grindr and Tinder users take almost opposite conversational stances regarding the organization of casual hookups as sexual, one-off encounters with strangers. While many gay Grindr users have to chat to organize quick sexual connections, they become wary of the way their electronic conversations might waylay them into more personal relationships and they try to prevent this by developing an interactional genre made of laconic, fact-checking and very short exchanges. On the other hand, many heterosexual users on Tinder are looking to achieve topically-rich chat conversations. Their interactional dilemma, then, is the achievement of such topically-rich conversation, but with complete strangers. The interaction-oriented comparison provides a more detailed and subtle perspective of the alleged ‘liquefaction’ of romantic relationships into a casual hookup culture through the use of location-aware mobile dating applications.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 73-90
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1607530
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Author-Name: Niklas Sorum
Author-X-Name-First: Niklas
Author-X-Name-Last: Sorum
Title: Ethical consumption applications as failed market innovations: exploring consumer (non) acceptance of ‘quasi’ market devices
Abstract: 
 In this paper, I conceptualise ethical consumption applications (ECAs) as market innovations inflected in processes of configuring market actors and market (re)framings. The introduction of ECAs through the work of civil society is not only about changing frames of market exchange, but also work in the register of making ‘good consumers’ and consumers as ‘agents of change’ and moralising markets. Thus, a more accurate concept for these devices is suggested: ‘quasi’ market devices. The main aim of this paper is to analyse how consumers attached to and resisted use of ECAs designed to assist in product choices and shape responsible everyday practices. Based on qualitative fieldwork in Sweden, the article applies a methodology grounded in Science and Technology-inspired market studies in combination with Consumer Culture Theory’s (CCT) interest in identity work and sense-making associated with technology consumption. Although available at the time of the empirical data collection period of the study, all three apps were off the market during the analytic work of this paper; a major argument for focusing on barriers to acceptance of the apps and trying to conceptualise how such non-acceptance can be understood.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 91-113
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1629990
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Author-Name: Bastien Soutjis
Author-X-Name-First: Bastien
Author-X-Name-Last: Soutjis
Title: The new digital face of the consumerist mediator: the case of the ‘Yuka’ mobile app
Abstract: 
 Drawing on Mallard’s contribution [2007. Performance testing: dissection of a consumerist experiment. The sociological review, 55 (2), 152–172] on the work undertaken by consumerist journals to evaluate products independently from the mediation of market players, our goal is to characterize the new digital form of the consumerist mediator by using a specific case: Yuka, a mobile application (app) enabling consumers to obtain alternative health labeling on foodstuffs. Relying on interviews, observations of the app and analysis of underlying product databases and reports on food labeling issues, we examine the new forms of consumer-to-market interactions brought about by the app, the conceptions of health inscribed in its product qualification algorithm and the operation of the database on which it is based. Our position is threefold: firstly, we argue that the relationship between the consumer and the market established by Yuka is less distant than the one established by traditional consumerist mediators. Secondly, in the case of Yuka, we argue that the market relationship is based on a compromise between scientific logic, technological uncertainty and consumer concerns. Thirdly, we claim that this case demonstrates new ways for consumerist prescribers to politically intervene on markets, but that the potential of the intervention is tied to new issues related to the openness of product data.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 114-131
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1603116
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Author-Name: Dylan Cassar
Author-X-Name-First: Dylan
Author-X-Name-Last: Cassar
Title: Financial Models and Society: Villains or Scapegoats?
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 132-135
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1668824
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Author-Name: Canay Özden-Schilling
Author-X-Name-First: Canay
Author-X-Name-Last: Özden-Schilling
Title: Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 135-138
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1702577
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Author-Name: Elizabeth Reddy
Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth
Author-X-Name-Last: Reddy
Title: Altering biopolitics
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 268-270
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1418409
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Author-Name: Gerda Roelvink
Author-X-Name-First: Gerda
Author-X-Name-Last: Roelvink
Title: Learning to be affected through care
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 271-273
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1427128
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Author-Name: Kelly Dombroski
Author-X-Name-First: Kelly
Author-X-Name-Last: Dombroski
Title: Thinking with, dissenting within: care-full critique for more-than-human worlds
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 261-264
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1427614
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Author-Name: Stephen Healy
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen
Author-X-Name-Last: Healy
Title: Beginning with care, touching feminist materiality
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 265-267
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1433706
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Author-Name: Théo Bourgeron
Author-X-Name-First: Théo
Author-X-Name-Last: Bourgeron
Title: Optimising ‘cash flows’: converting corporate finance to hard currency
Abstract: 
 Following recent works that have underlined the increasing search for liquidity in economic exchange, this article studies how illiquid forms of money are converted into liquid forms by corporate finance actors. In the name of ‘shareholder value’, the various forms of value generated by companies (such as ‘trade credit’) tend to be increasingly transformed into liquid forms of money that are easily distributable to shareholders (‘cash flows’). Describing this phenomenon as an example of what anthropologists of money call ‘conversion’, this paper highlights how such a conversion process was necessary for the historical development of ‘shareholder value’ policies in corporate finance. Considering documentary sources and interviews with consultants, auditors, and private equity fund managers involved in ‘cash flow’ optimisation practices, this paper details this conversion phenomenon and shows how it has relied on the historical elaboration of specific metrological, technical, legal, and moral norms.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 193-208
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1434677
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Author-Name: Tomas Ariztia
Author-X-Name-First: Tomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Ariztia
Title: Consumer databases as practical accomplishments: the making of digital objects in three movements
Abstract: 
 This paper aims to reflect on some key issues linked to the production of digital objects in business settings. In doing so, it problematizes current social science scholarship, which emphasizes the analysis of digital data and analytics, and reinforces the magnitude of its consequences and ‘data power’. The paper proposes making three corrective ‘movements’ that might enrich our approaches to how databases and analytics are assembled in business settings. The first movement involves the problem of ethnographic access to data-making practices. We propose taking seriously the issue of fabricating an ethnographic encounter where the process of making digital objects is exposed. The second movement concerns the visibility and the type of politics taking place in data practices. We argue for the need to displace attention from data impacts and results to the myriad of mundane practices and devices through which these objects are assembled. The third movement we suggest requires a focus on examining error and failure as key aspects of the manufacturing of consumer databases. Each of these movements is illustrated by ethnographic vignettes from a 9-month ethnographic experiment that involved participating in the first stages of the manufacturing of an online financial retail company's consumer database.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 209-224
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1435421
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Author-Name: Susan Oman
Author-X-Name-First: Susan
Author-X-Name-Last: Oman
Author-Name: Mark Taylor
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Taylor
Title: Subjective well-being in cultural advocacy: a politics of research between the market and the academy
Abstract: 
 This paper responds to a trend of contracting out subjective well-being econometrics to demonstrate social return on investment (SROI) for evidence-based policy-making. We discuss an evolving ecology of ‘external’ research taking place ‘between’ the academy and commercial consultancy. We then contextualise this as waves of research methodologies and consultancy for the cultural sector. The new model of ‘external between’ consultancy research for policy is not only placed between the University and the market, but also facilitates discourse between policy sectors, government, the media and the academy. Specifically, it enables seductive but selective arguments for advocacy that claim authority through academic affiliation, yet are not evaluated for robustness. To critically engage with an emergent form of what Stone calls ‘causal stories’, we replicate a publicly funded externally commissioned SROI model that argues for the value of cultural activities to well-being. We find that the author’s operationalisation of participation and well-being are crucial, yet their representation of the relationship problematic, and their estimates questionable. This case study ‘re-performs’ econometric modelling national-level survey data for the cultural sector to reveal practices that create norms of expertise for policy-making that are not rigorous. We conclude that fluid claims to authority allow experimental econometric models and measures to perform across the cultural economy as if ratified. This new model of advocacy research requires closer academic consideration given the changing research funding structures and recent attention to expertise and the contracting out of public services.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 225-243
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1435422
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Author-Name: Glaucia Peres da Silva
Author-X-Name-First: Glaucia
Author-X-Name-Last: Peres da Silva
Title: Conceiving multiple markets through network analysis: evidence from the emergence of the World Music market
Abstract: 
 The idea of multiple markets, conceptualised as a variety of concrete market configurations, was fruitfully developed in the socio-material networks research programme. However, it has not yet been able to solve the following puzzle: the differentiation and specification of multiple markets that exist at the same time in the same place. In this paper, I argue that White’s model of ‘markets from networks’ can contribute to filling this gap, since it is centred on the specification of a market’s structural and cultural boundaries. His model allows for the analysis of concrete market practices intertwined with more abstract concepts of markets formed in discourses that move firms and markets across different levels – from local markets to market sectors. An in-depth analysis of the emergence of the World Music market demonstrates the advantages of employing this model in the analysis of multiple markets.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 244-260
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1439762
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Author-Name: Niels van Doorn
Author-X-Name-First: Niels
Author-X-Name-Last: van Doorn
Author-Name: Olav Velthuis
Author-X-Name-First: Olav
Author-X-Name-Last: Velthuis
Title: A good hustle: the moral economy of market competition in adult webcam modeling
Abstract: 
 In this article, we examine how models working on Chaturbate, one of the world’s most popular adult webcam platforms, negotiate and make sense of the dynamic ways in which this platform configures their competitive environment. By combining different perspectives from the field of economic sociology, we demonstrate how competition on Chaturbate is shaped by various market devices whose strategic negotiation informs – and is informed by – the moral economy articulated on web forums where models gather to discuss their work experiences and market strategies. We first introduce Chaturbate and the ways in which it organizes market competition, surveying the environment models have to negotiate. We then zoom in on two controversial strategies for beating the competition, each of which upset the moral economy of Chaturbate’s model community. Subsequently, we turn to what models term ‘the hustle,’ which encompasses a number of competitive strategies and criteria judged to be fair and thus legitimate. The final part of our analysis considers the limitations of the hustle, as well as the meritocratic and entrepreneurial discourse that surround it, in light of what we identify as Chaturbate’s ‘manufactured uncertainty.’
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 177-192
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1446183
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Author-Name: Maria Puig de la Bellacasa
Author-X-Name-First: Maria Puig
Author-X-Name-Last: de la Bellacasa
Title: Intertwining beyond – critical reading as a labour of care
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 274-276
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1456479
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Author-Name: Lizzie Richardson
Author-X-Name-First: Lizzie
Author-X-Name-Last: Richardson
Title: Culturalisation and devices: what is culture in cultural economy?
Abstract: 
 Theorisation of culture is often absent from research on production in the creative and cultural sector. Further, cultural production has been largely untouched by the insights of the cultural economy approach. Culturalisation is a means of addressing the question of what constitutes culture and thus a cultural (economy) approach. It is the process by which culture and cultural production combine in the ‘operationalisation of the real.’ Culturalisation underpins much scholarship in this journal by posing the (economic) real as a problem of definition in order to illustrate the operations involved in its temporary resolution. The implications of this position need further addressing. There is a feedback between culture as a problem of definition and a cultural approach. Devices can interrogate the relationship between processes of cultural definition and the conceptual parameters of a cultural economy approach. Workshopping, projects and events are put forward as cultural devices emerging from a 10-month ethnography of literary performance in Bristol, England. This illustration shows firstly, how culturalisation occurs in a designated cultural sector to contingently realise culture; and secondly, the implicit logic of cultural economy as culturalisation, typified by the device as method, so as to open a debate concerning its implications.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 228-241
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1542608
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Author-Name: Philip Roscoe
Author-X-Name-First: Philip
Author-X-Name-Last: Roscoe
Author-Name: Olga Loza
Author-X-Name-First: Olga
Author-X-Name-Last: Loza
Title: The –ography of markets (or, the responsibilities of market studies)
Abstract: 
 How should we write about markets? What responsibilities does this writing bring upon us? This paper offers an immanent critique of ‘market studies’ scholarship, and through this a call to reflection and reformed action. Turning the intellectual framework of market studies upon itself, we come to see its texts as performative and agential. We discuss these qualities and the associated responsibilities via a reading of literature from the domain of ethnography. An auto-ethnographic sketch of market writing allows us to consider the problematic nature of expertise for market studies scholars and the agency and power of our texts. We find a dual moment of performativity from which our texts emerge more powerful than their authors. On this basis we offer a vision of critical interventions embedded in our texts, underpinned by the intellectual axioms of the market studies programme.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 215-227
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1557730
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Author-Name: Harrison Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Harrison
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Title: People-based marketing and the cultural economies of attribution metrics
Abstract: 
 This article examines People-Based Marketing (PBM) to theorize the cultural economies of attribution metrics. Through an analysis of marketing discourses, acquisition patterns, and marketing collaborations, it examines how platform capitalism is increasingly directed towards developing cross-device identity standards that consolidate performance metrics across digital markets. PBM extends the processes of platform capitalization across media properties, and the ways that claims of value and relevance are imbricated with the metricization of behavioral change in digital markets. The imperative of PBM to standardize techniques of identification and to make media increasingly measurable across markets has been a catalyst for new forms of data resolutions through strategic acquisitions and identity resolution consortiums. Moreover, emerging regulatory changes such as GDPR may in effect further reinforce trends towards the consolidation of data management and analytics platforms necessary to resolve identity across markets.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 201-214
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1570538
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Author-Name: Miriam Meissner
Author-X-Name-First: Miriam
Author-X-Name-Last: Meissner
Title: Against accumulation: lifestyle minimalism, de-growth and the present post-ecological condition
Abstract: 
 The post-2008 financial crisis era has seen an upsurge in popular cultural narratives that implicitly challenge principles of economic productivity, consumption and growth by lamenting a so-called ‘world of too much,’ advocating ethics of minimalism, and renouncing everyday busyness. Narratives range from lifestyle advice on simplicity and de-cluttering private homes, to quests for the reduction of individual labor, communication, social contacts and distraction. This article questions these narratives in terms of eco-politics. Using Kate Soper’s concept of ‘alternative hedonism,’ the article analyzes a selection of five self-help books and one blog that promote lifestyle minimalism in order to interrogate their potential in stimulating de-growth eco-politics through popular culture. Drawing on post-ecological theory, it argues that narratives of lifestyle minimalism are paradoxical in that they resist yet at the same time promote capitalist cultures of growth. To overcome this limitation, it is crucial to understand and transform the narrative premises of lifestyle minimalism in ways that contextualize problems of ‘excess,’ ‘clutter’ and ‘a world of too much’ as intrinsic to the current system of capital accumulation. The article concludes by reflecting on the potential of an eco-movement that joins the alternative culture of minimalist hedonism with the eco-political agenda of de-growth.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 185-200
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1570962
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Author-Name: Carolyn Hardin
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Author-X-Name-Last: Hardin
Title: Risking together: how finance is dominating everyday life in Australia, by Dick Bryan and Mike Rafferty
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 244-247
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 5
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Author-Name: Darren Umney
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Author-X-Name-Last: Umney
Title: Code + Clay … Data + Dirt – Five Thousand Years of Urban Media by Shannon Mattern
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 247-249
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 5
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Author-Name: Michael Palm
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Palm
Title: Cash and Dash: How ATMs and Computers Changed Banking, by Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 242-244
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 5
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 229-229
Issue: 3
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
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Author-Name: Simone Polillo
Author-X-Name-First: Simone
Author-X-Name-Last: Polillo
Title: GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 231-238
Issue: 3
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
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Author-Name: Arthur Stinchcombe
Author-X-Name-First: Arthur
Author-X-Name-Last: Stinchcombe
Title: FOREWORD
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 239-244
Issue: 3
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
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Author-Name: Anne Mayhew
Author-X-Name-First: Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: Mayhew
Title: MONEY AS ELECTRICITY
Abstract: Morris Copeland created the flow-of-funds accounting that is used by the Federal Reserve System and the financial press to present and explain data on crucial spending changes among various sectors of the US economy. Copeland also argued that it would be more accurate and useful to use electricity rather than water as a metaphor for money and for the accounts that he created. This paper explores Copeland's mid-twentieth-century argument, why it was too radical for most economists when he first presented it, and why it makes sense, particularly in this era of electronic funds, to adopt his full proposal.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 245-253
Issue: 3
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
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Author-Name: Hugh Rockoff
Author-X-Name-First: Hugh
Author-X-Name-Last: Rockoff
Title: PARALLEL JOURNEYS
Abstract: Adam Smith and Milton Friedman are famous for championing laissez-faire, yet both supported government regulation of the banking system. In both cases their deviation from free market orthodoxy was based on a careful reading of financial history: especially Smith's reading of the Crisis of 1772 and Friedman's reading of the Crisis of 1929–1933. In both cases they based their reading on a complex and nuanced account of human nature. This paper describes their parallel journeys to the conclusion that banking requires government regulation.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 255-283
Issue: 3
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2011.586849
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Author-Name: John O'Brien
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Brien
Title: INSURANCE, RISK AND THE LIMITS OF SENTIMENTAL REPRESENTATION
Abstract: The financial crisis that began in late 2008 and the centrality of corporate entities such as AIG and instruments such as the credit default swap exposes the extent to which the economy depends on systems that we can broadly define as ‘insurance’. But the brief prominence of insurance in the crisis underscores how this technology is more typically an invisible actor in the economy. Taking insurance as a problem of representation, this essay investigates what the author calls, following Raymond Williams, the sentimental ‘structure of feeling’ that has since the eighteenth century permeated cultural understands of the economic. Using as case studies the public-sphere discourse around the near-collapse of the insurance conglomerate AIG in fall 2008 and the role of insurance in Tobias Smollett's 1751 novel The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, the author argues that insurance exposes the continuing sentimentality of economic relationships.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 285-299
Issue: 3
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
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Author-Name: Nicky Marsh
Author-X-Name-First: Nicky
Author-X-Name-Last: Marsh
Title: DESIRE AND DISEASE IN THE SPECULATIVE ECONOMY
Abstract: This paper contrasts two kinds of representations of this relationship between crisis and risk, specifically focusing on their metaphorical displacement onto a sexualised and/or bodily discourse. In the first instance the author examines the ways in which the exuberant organic language of finance radically shifted following the financial crisis at the end of 2008, paying particular attention to how the discourses of financial regulation attempted to retrospectively distance themselves from their previous permissive attitudes. Secondly, the author examines how these ironies and inconsistencies were pre-figured and critiqued in fiction published in the years leading up to the crisis. It examines two novels, Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty and Lawrence Chua's Gold by the Inch, which both use metaphors of illness to explore the contradictions of contemporary finance. Both novels – in very different ways – use this metaphorical slippage in order to critique its implications, pointing to the very limiting meanings of risk in contemporary finance culture.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 301-314
Issue: 3
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
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Author-Name: Matthew Garrett
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Garrett
Title: THE LIQUID LIFE
Abstract: What happens when the money form becomes a model for selfhood and social success? Benjamin Franklin's autobiography posits a reciprocal relationship between the circulation of money and self. Self is expressed in Franklin's memoirs in the form of money, through a formal configuration of narrative episodes modelled on Franklin's own conception of the circulation of money. Through this representation, Franklin produces a historically novel way of formally accommodating the antagonisms of social inequality through narrative, of reconstituting conflict as controlled and industrious experiential diversity. Through a consideration of Franklin's writings on credit and money, and an analysis of the narrative form of his autobiography, this article assesses the origins and persistence of the money-self nexus in modern times.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 315-328
Issue: 3
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
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Author-Name: Jennifer Burns
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer
Author-X-Name-Last: Burns
Title: ‘THE ROOT OF ALL GOOD’
Abstract: This article analyzes the moral defense of capitalism offered by the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand in her 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, a book that is recognized today as an important founding document of American libertarianism and the fullest statement of Rand's pro-capitalist Objectivist ideology. The article focuses primarily on ‘The Moral Meaning of Money’, a speech from the novel that continues to be cited by Rand's readers as a compelling statement of her views. The article also discusses Rand's relationship with the broader conservative and libertarian movement and her influence upon Alan Greenspan, the former Chair of the US Federal Reserve Board.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 329-347
Issue: 3
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2011.586856
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Author-Name: Bill Maurer
Author-X-Name-First: Bill
Author-X-Name-Last: Maurer
Title: AFTERWORD
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 349-359
Issue: 3
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2011.586857
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 361-362
Issue: 3
Volume: 4
Year: 2011
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Author-Name: Erin B. Taylor
Author-X-Name-First: Erin B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Taylor
Title: Money as icon: digging deeper into capitalism's affective properties
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 313-316
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1277371
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Author-Name: Sang-hyoun Pahk
Author-X-Name-First: Sang-hyoun
Author-X-Name-Last: Pahk
Title: Misappropriation as market making: Butler, Callon, and street food in San Francisco, California
Abstract: 
 Although failure and misappropriation have been central to Judith Butler’s theorizing of performativity, such concerns have been largely absent in the performativity studies of markets inspired by Michel Callon. Indeed, Callon’s performativity has been criticized for ‘presuming efficacity’ and overemphasizing ‘stabilizing processes’. In this paper, I propose a distinction between ‘science studies’ performativity (which privileges economic theory) and ‘performative agency’ (which attends to the constitution of economic agency). Previous attempts to discuss Callon and Butler together have tended to oppose her performativity to the former approach, but I suggest that the latter allows for a more productive engagement. I illustrate how this alternative offers a way to address persistent critiques of market performativity by incorporating Butler’s understanding of performative failure. The usefulness of this argument is demonstrated through a case study of the recent transformation of the street food market in San Francisco. The details of the case are drawn from ethnographic study conducted in 2009, and describe how a market that had been ‘known’ to lack dynamism became remade almost overnight.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 296-308
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 5
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Author-Name: Nick Seaver
Author-X-Name-First: Nick
Author-X-Name-Last: Seaver
Title: Attending to the mediators
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 309-313
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1287766
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Author-Name: Brit Ross Winthereik
Author-X-Name-First: Brit Ross
Author-X-Name-Last: Winthereik
Author-Name: Casper Bruun Jensen
Author-X-Name-First: Casper Bruun
Author-X-Name-Last: Jensen
Title: Learning from experiments in optimization: post-critical perspectives on monitoring and evaluation
Abstract: 
 This article examines attempts by professionals in the Danish branch of the environmental NGO NatureAid to optimize their practice by developing a local standard. Describing these efforts as an experiment in optimization, we outline a post-critical alternative to critiques that centre on the reductive effects of management and audit. The notion that reduction is inherently negative fails to recognize that achieving specific forms of reduction is often the reflexive aim of standardization. Rather than resisting monitoring and evaluation, the environmental consultants we study try to create a system capable of constraining their work in the right way. Focusing on this experiment in optimization allows us to redescribe audit as a varied set of practices and aspirations, embedded in standards that generate relative forms of organizational transparency and opacity. This offers a view of management as ‘broken up’; as a distributed, ambient activity, variably performed by different actors using different standards.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 251-264
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1289414
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Author-Name: Stine Lomborg
Author-X-Name-First: Stine
Author-X-Name-Last: Lomborg
Title: Review of Deborah Lupton’s  and Dawn Nafus’ 
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 317-321
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1291445
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Author-Name: Steven D. Brown
Author-X-Name-First: Steven D.
Author-X-Name-Last: Brown
Author-Name: Paula Reavey
Author-X-Name-First: Paula
Author-X-Name-Last: Reavey
Title: Dark organizational theory
Abstract: 
 Institutions and organizations are defined by competing sociomaterial logics. Divergence between the ‘visible’ and the ‘hidden’ side of organization invites a critical work of ‘unveiling’. But such critique does not enable understanding of how coherency is accomplished between different modes of reason. This is performed in emergent third spaces, where parasitic relations are enacted. During moments of ‘crisis’ or ‘breach’, contradictions are both acknowledged and given concrescence. Management comes into being in the anticipation of its breaking. Four accounts of this process are offered – a discussion of a remark from Michel Serres’s The Parasite, a description of China Miélville’s novel The City and The City, stories from fieldwork in medium-secure forensic psychiatric units, and set of conceptual propositions. Together they perform a descriptive practice called ‘dark organization theory’ which analyses the functional aspects of divergence and breaking in management and organizational practices.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 280-295
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1298533
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Author-Name: Christopher Gad
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher
Author-X-Name-Last: Gad
Author-Name: Steffen Dalsgaard
Author-X-Name-First: Steffen
Author-X-Name-Last: Dalsgaard
Title: Disability as infra-critique: a compositionist approach to the election process in Denmark
Abstract: 
 This article investigates how disability can work analytically as a ‘critique from within’. Our case is the accommodation of citizens with disabilities during the voting process in Denmark. Here disability makes explicit how Danish democracy is produced as disability rubs up against implicit, normalized and mundane infrastructures and practices. We investigate disability as critique in this sense of affording a both analytic and practical ‘breakup’. To do so, we promote a ‘compositionist’ post-actor-network theory approach to disability and to polling and investigate what entry-point for critique this offers. We analyze an incident at a polling booth during the 2013 Danish Municipal election. This renders visible some of the complex socio-material processes through which citizens and the Danish state co-enact and co-authorize one another. We highlight how ‘detachments’ are vital to such processes and we examine parts of the historical background for the production of authority in the context of managing disability as exception during polling. In doing so we point out that as the organization of electoral processes evolves, new potentialities for infra-critique also emerge.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 237-250
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1312485
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Author-Name: Javier Lezaun
Author-X-Name-First: Javier
Author-X-Name-Last: Lezaun
Author-Name: Fabian Muniesa
Author-X-Name-First: Fabian
Author-X-Name-Last: Muniesa
Title: Twilight in the leadership playground:  and the training of the business self
Abstract: 
 What sort of reality is produced and conveyed to the business trainee through the set of pedagogical techniques that characterize the experiential business curriculum, and how does immersion in this particular kind of reality configure the business self? This essay discusses some of the rhetorical and theatrical contrivances that are used to generate artificial business situations in which the student can experience a moment of decision and test his quality as a leader. These training formulas, we argue, rely on the therapeutic hope of dramaturgical self-realization, but often degenerate into a form of regressive fetishism in which the fantasy of existential resolve and serious decision-making can be playfully and safely enacted. Surrealism and its demise provide an angle from which the peculiar fragility of these operations can be understood: what the experiential business curriculum provides, in this interpretation, amounts to a sort of subrealist shield, a protective dilution of the challenges that await in the world at large. When the element of the ethical pledge is added to this compendium of techniques, the result is a self-referential (and essentially indulgent) form of spiritual exercise solely oriented to the auto-elevation of the business self.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 265-279
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1312486
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Author-Name: Damian O’Doherty
Author-X-Name-First: Damian
Author-X-Name-Last: O’Doherty
Author-Name: Helene Ratner
Author-X-Name-First: Helene
Author-X-Name-Last: Ratner
Title: The break-up of management: critique inside-out
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 231-236
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1312488
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Author-Name: Lynne Pettinger
Author-X-Name-First: Lynne
Author-X-Name-Last: Pettinger
Title: On Curiosity: The Art of Market Seduction, by Franck Cochoy, translated by Jaciara T. Lira
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 321-323
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1313171
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Author-Name: Adrian Mackenzie
Author-X-Name-First: Adrian
Author-X-Name-Last: Mackenzie
Title: 48 million configurations and counting: platform numbers and their capitalization
Abstract: 
 Platforms are important actors in contemporary cultural economic processes. They include social network sites, online content management systems, streaming media platforms, mobile communication infrastructures, supply chain logistics solutions, and cryptocurrencies. Analysis of platforms and their capitalization should take into account the ways they structure social practice as assets and the constitutive opacity of platforms as configured realities. It explores capitalization by focusing on the problems of counting people and things on platforms. Via a case study of the software repository platform [Github.com] (https://github.com), it analyzes how 'platform numbers’ participate in capitalization. It describes attempts to enumerate the elements of the platform by counting, mapping or listing them. The paper shows how attempts to enumerate people and things encounter forms of association, duplication, combination, imitation and configuration that are crucial to the ensemble but remain refractory to capitalization. It proposes configurative enumeration of the platform numbers as a way of conceptualizing these un-enacted excesses. In a configurative enumeration, the composition, the rhythms of imitation, variation and commutation, and constant relating, repairing and adjusting of configurations crucial to the ongoing formation of platforms come into view. Configurative enumerations engage the inventive realities of platformization, realities that precede and sometimes overflow their capitalization.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 36-53
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1393443
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Author-Name: Ritwick Ghosh
Author-X-Name-First: Ritwick
Author-X-Name-Last: Ghosh
Title: Supplying the supply curve: an ethnography of environmental reverse auctions
Abstract: 
 As economic ideas gain prominence in environmental governance, scholars of economic practices are well positioned to analyze how environmental markets are constructed and maintained. To do this, I present an ethnographic study of environmental reverse auctions conducted in Cidanau, Indonesia. I invert the question of how economic assumptions transform environmental management decisions to specific practical challenges and their resolution as revealed in decisions taken by auction organizers, such as where to conduct the auction, how many participants are needed to engender competition, which exchanges among competing participants to restrict, how to organize facilitators, and what to announce to encourage strategic bidding. In contrast to sociological theories of auctions or the microeconomic model of individual competition, specific attributes of the auction’s materiality, such as the design of bid slips, sealed bids, announcements of winners, and the multi-round auction structure, sustain the performance of competition. A paradoxical tension emerges in the process of auction organizing, wherein sticking to the auction script necessitates working around it. Building on ethnomethodological studies of economic activities, I argue for a need to go beyond studying how auctions are socio-materially performed and instead study how the performance is demonstrated as adequately accountable for the concerns at hand.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 20-35
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1393444
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Author-Name: Esther R. Maier
Author-X-Name-First: Esther R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Maier
Title: Maximizing production values in a dramatic television series production
Abstract: 
 The paper uses empirical data from an ethnographic study of the production of a dramatic television series to explore the calculative practice of the production team. In its focus on three distinct calculative spaces – estimates, schedules, and the production floor – the analysis draws on a broadened conception of calculative practice that integrates (non)numeric calculation and judgment. This conception of calculative practice provides the basis for exploring how both economic and non-economic forms of calculation are integrated into the routines of the production team and manifest in the concept of ‘production values’ deployed by industry insiders. In doing so, this paper outlines the role of calculative practice in shaping the emergence of the final product.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 54-68
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1398675
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Author-Name: Horacio Ortiz
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Author-X-Name-Last: Ortiz
Author-Name: Fabian Muniesa
Author-X-Name-First: Fabian
Author-X-Name-Last: Muniesa
Title: Business schools, the anxiety of finance, and the order of the ‘middle tier’
Abstract: 
 Financial imagination plays a fundamental, yet ambivalent role in the establishment of hierarchies within and between business schools, and in business life at large. This study examines this process in the ‘middle tier’ of business education: that is, in the social space in which students and instructors understand themselves to occupy a ‘mid-range’ position within an order of excellence and success. Largely articulated through business school rankings, this order strongly relies on the centrality of the financial curriculum, proficiency in which is understood as both a proxy for smartness and a sign of moneymaking capacity. In the ‘middle tier’, this order manifests in the form of an anxiety: an order that, though legitimate, is thought not to be attained, or hardly attainable. The study draws from ethnographic investigation in a ‘middle tier’ business school with attention to how finance is made sense of in relation to an alternative curriculum, and in connection with the aim of ‘making it to the top’. A comparison with a ‘top tier’ business school allows furthering understanding of how the order of business schools relies on the anxiety of finance in order to reproduce an acquiescence to dominant financial imagination.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 1-19
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1399432
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Author-Name: Laura Finch
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: Finch
Title: Possessed and dispossessed
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 89-95
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1402203
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Author-Name: Guillaume Dumont
Author-X-Name-First: Guillaume
Author-X-Name-Last: Dumont
Title: Creativity at work: the production of work for sale by brand ambassadors
Abstract: 
 Creative work has emerged at the core of the new economy and is primarily studied in the art and the media, music and advertising business. This article presents data from an ethnographic research with professional rock climbers. It argues that the production of work for sale by these climbers is a form of creative work. The thread of the argument is twofold. First, their work is inextricably intertwined and paced with highly creative activities. Second, it is anchored in a complex system of communication aiming for the production and dissemination of experiences through media production.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 69-82
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1403947
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Author-Name: Megan M. Wood
Author-X-Name-First: Megan M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Wood
Title: All in the family?
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 83-88
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2017.1407955
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Author-Name: David Hancock
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Hancock
Title: Revulsion and awe: charting the development of the moral economy of capitalism and its hero in the American imagination, from the protestant ethic to ecstasy of the entrepreneur
Abstract: 
 The spirit of capitalism shifted throughout the twentieth century, Boltanski and Chiapello place it sometime in the period between the 1960s and 1990s [2005, The New Spirit of Capitalism, Verso, London], for Bell it had happened by the mid-1970s and its contradictions were already apparent [1998, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, Basic Books, New York]. David Harvey is more specific and cites 1979 as the dawn of the new era [2005, The New Spirit of Capitalism, Verso, London]. This paper seeks to build on this scholarship of the changing spirit of capitalism and read it through the development of the heroic figure of the American imagination, through the representation of the capitalist hero. Its aim is to situate the figure of the capitalist hero in the post-crash era and ultimately to understand the seductive power of the new capitalism that enables it to thrive. My thesis is that the seductive power of the new capitalism can be understood as an oscillation between revulsion and awe, we are both morally repulsed by the venality of capitalism yet also captivated by it. Revulsion and awe are at the core of the libidinality of the new capitalism and can be seen through the representation of the heroic object of the capitalist imagination.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 136-149
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1211547
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Author-Name: Jon Dietrick
Author-X-Name-First: Jon
Author-X-Name-Last: Dietrick
Title: ‘The current gold coin of the New Jerusalem’: perception, symbolization, and money in Hawthorne’s 
Abstract: 
 As an external visual marker of what is supposed by other characters in the novel as its wearer’s ‘internal,’ spiritual state, Hester Prynne’s Scarlet ‘A’ is, among other things, an emblem of a powerful American anxiety regarding the gulf between appearance and reality, symbol and meaning. The desperate and dangerous need for fixed signs and self-evident identities that obsesses Hawthorne’s Puritan-era characters is directly related to the gold-paper money debates that dominated the politics of Hawthorne’s own time, with their concern for issues of ‘character’ and value and what we might now call the gap between the symbolic and the real, or face value and material value.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 127-135
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1228001
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Author-Name: Nathan Coombs
Author-X-Name-First: Nathan
Author-X-Name-Last: Coombs
Title: Macroprudential versus monetary blueprints for financial reform
Abstract: 
 New books by Avinash Persaud and Morgan Ricks present very different blueprints for financial reform. Persaud builds upon the macroprudential programme to advocate a role for regulators in shepherding risk throughout the financial system. Ricks rejects the direction taken by post-financial crisis regulation, offering a blueprint that addresses the panic-prone nature of money creation in shadow banking. This review article provides a reading of their books which demonstrates how their evaluations of the global financial crisis shape their policy prescriptions. It also suggests that although their blueprints are valuable thought-experiments they have a number of lacunae which economic sociologists and political economists can help fill. In particular, I argue that questions concerning regulatory epistemology, the politics of regulatory reform, and simplicity versus complexity in regulatory rule-making might orient a productive empirical and conceptual research agenda.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 207-216
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1234404
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Author-Name: Luis F. Alvarez León
Author-X-Name-First: Luis F.
Author-X-Name-Last: Alvarez León
Title: Architectures of the information age
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 217-222
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1242432
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Author-Name: Corinna Howland
Author-X-Name-First: Corinna
Author-X-Name-Last: Howland
Title: Fast, easy, and in cash: artisan hardship and hope in the global economy, by Jason Antrosio and Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 223-225
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1243569
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Author-Name: Kasper Tang Vangkilde
Author-X-Name-First: Kasper Tang
Author-X-Name-Last: Vangkilde
Title: Creativity versus branding: totemism, animism and the pursuit of uniqueness in fashion
Abstract: 
 In the contemporary organization of the economy, creativity and branding constitute two distinctive imperatives which generally point in different directions: the former towards newness and change, the latter towards continuity and recognisability. Numerous agents in corporate organizations thus face a conundrum of creativity versus branding, which is perhaps nowhere more pronounced than in the fashion business. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a fashion company, I argue that these seemingly incompatible imperatives are inextricably entangled, as their paradoxical relation is solved, even dissolved, in a dynamic interplay between ‘a totemic logic’ and ‘an animist practice’. Thus, a dynamics of totemism and animism unites creativity and branding in the continual pursuit of uniqueness. While totemic and animist modalities are most commonly associated with non-western ontologies and perceived as mutually exclusive, I contend that they are also at work in contemporary commercial processes and that they are enmeshed in, and propelled by, each other. This suggests that these modalities operate together particularly when the making of distinctive identities is critical – as in economic competition today.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 178-190
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1248473
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Author-Name: Mathieu Quet
Author-X-Name-First: Mathieu
Author-X-Name-Last: Quet
Title: Values in motion: anti-counterfeiting measures and the securitization of pharmaceutical flows
Abstract: 
 The past decade has seen an increase in anti-counterfeiting practices, especially in the pharmaceutical field. These practices aim at reducing the number of bad medicines available on the market, especially in countries where pharmaceutical regulation is still weak. But they have been accused of serving the interests of Big Pharma by reinforcing intellectual property instead of promoting better quality medicines. Based on a study of the controversies provoked by anti-counterfeiting laws and devices, this paper analyses anti-counterfeiting politics and shows: (a) the aim of this mode of government is to discriminate between medicines in order to regulate the value attached to distribution processes and (b) the tensions and contradictions which characterize anti-counterfeiting discourses and practices. As such, a central characteristic of pharmaceutical markets is the shift of value conflicts towards circulation and distribution rather than production. The securitization of pharmaceutical flows, rather than being in addition to the production of pharmaceuticals, emerges as a new disputed way of producing economic value, legality and social legitimacy for globalized technical commodities such as medicines.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 150-162
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1258001
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Author-Name: Daniel Platt
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Platt
Title: Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era, by Thomas C. Leonard
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 225-229
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1258587
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Author-Name: Oscar Javier Maldonado Castañeda
Author-X-Name-First: Oscar Javier
Author-X-Name-Last: Maldonado Castañeda
Title: Price-effectiveness: pharmacoeconomics, value and the right price for HPV vaccines
Abstract: 
 Drawing on a pragmatist approach to pricing, this article discusses the impact of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) in the pricing strategies of pharmaceutical companies. Through an analysis of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, this article illustrates the strategic appropriation of evidence-based medicine (narratives and practices) that pharmaceutical companies have undertaken to enhance the value of their products. While governments are concentrated on the measurement of costs and efficiency (cost-effectiveness), companies attempt to find the threshold of effectiveness that supports their estimation of value. I have called such mode of calculation, price-effectiveness. Pharmaceutical companies engage in different ways with CEA in devising their own price strategies. First, CEA is used as an instrument to raise HPV vaccines as a matter of interest for health authorities. Second, companies produce models to maximise the effectiveness of their products. Third, the expense side of CEA has opened an opportunity to represent some conditions as diseases in order to increase the potential value of the vaccine, expressed in a higher price. Debates and practices of pricing offer a unique opportunity to trace how particular forms of quantification have become the common ground in the demonstration of value in healthcare and the adaptation of companies.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 163-177
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1260041
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Author-Name: Torin Monahan
Author-X-Name-First: Torin
Author-X-Name-Last: Monahan
Title: Regulating belonging: surveillance, inequality, and the cultural production of abjection
Abstract: 
 Conditions of abjection are increasingly viewed as problems to be managed with surveillance. Across disparate domains, bodies that challenge normalized constructions of responsible neoliberal citizenship are categorized, monitored, policed, and excluded in dehumanizing and often violent ways. This paper explores the role of surveillance in such processes. The registers covered include everyday abjection (welfare systems, battered women’s shelters, and homelessness), criminalized poverty (police targeting of the poor and emerging ‘poverty capitalism’ arrangements), and the radically adrift (the identification, tracking, and containment of refugees). In each of these cases, surveillance is yoked to structural inequalities and systems of oppression, but it also possesses a cultural dimension that thrusts marginalized and dehumanized subjectivities upon the abject Other. Therefore, I argue that in order to critique the gendered, racialized, and classed dimensions of contemporary surveillance, it is necessary to take seriously the mythologies that give meaning to surveillance practices and the subjectivities that are engendered by them.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 191-206
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2016.1273843
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Author-Name: Tomoaki Kanamaru
Author-X-Name-First: Tomoaki
Author-X-Name-Last: Kanamaru
Title: Production management as an ordering of multiple qualities: negotiating the quality of coffee in Timor-Leste
Abstract: 
 The emergence of close-knit global–local links in many agro-food production systems has necessitated rigorous coordination between the key stakeholders to ensure that quality and safety standards are met. To analyze this new supply chain configuration, agro-food studies inspired by convention theory have drawn significant attention to the plurality of quality conventions. In the literature specifically focusing on the inter-relationships between multiple quality conventions, the ways of interpreting a specific value orientation are perceived to have important implications. This view may lead to a questioning of how the configuration of multiple quality conventions can be stabilized if conflicting justification principles are not easily reconciled. The argument is further connected with an examination of situated plurality in a particular context, focusing on how the boundary among multiple quality conventions is stabilized on the ground. In this paper, through a case analysis of coffee quality management in Timor-Leste, I attempt to demonstrate that commoditization is to be reformulated as the process in which the qualification of objects and regularization of action are constituted through the differentiation of consumable quality as generality from heterogeneous cultural elements as particularity.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 139-152
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1697953
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Author-Name: Eliza Benites-Gambirazio
Author-X-Name-First: Eliza
Author-X-Name-Last: Benites-Gambirazio
Title: Working as a real estate agent. Bringing the clients in line with the market
Abstract: 
 Drawing on ethnographic observations and interviews, this paper examines the market work performed by real estate agents in a residential market. The research explores how agents are engaged in market work to sell themselves, the market and the products in order to sell houses. Agents first invest in the clients by self-presentation techniques (likeability, availability, appearance, taste). They also work to bring the clients in line with the market by making them accept the market and its hierarchies; and finally, they enable clients to conform with the market, by relying on prices as signals and taste hierarchies. They act as market devices contributing to market valuation as they are engaged in making residential choices emerge, balancing the cold reality of the market with warm relationships to foster clients' engagement in transactions.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 153-168
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1697954
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Author-Name: Susi Geiger
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Author-X-Name-Last: Geiger
Title: Silicon Valley, disruption, and the end of uncertainty
Abstract: 
 This paper reflects on the relationship between high-tech disruption narratives and uncertainty. My main argument is that an economic sociology of the future is incomplete without addressing the ‘demonic’ or rather eschatological elements apparent in the promissory twin rhetoric of disruption and inevitability that a number of contemporary technology firms employ. The conjuring up of liberatory high-tech futures implicates a political-philosophical perspective of the end game. It utilizes at once the productive power of uncertainty to create visions of ‘absolute riches’ and societal gain but at the same time narrows these futures down to one inevitable alternative to the status quo. Through the examples of two Silicon Valley disruptor firms, I argue that these eschatological narratives need to be opened to social scientific critique in order to examine their potential societal consequences above and beyond the narrow geographic confines of ‘the Valley.’
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 169-184
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1684337
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Author-Name: Anthony J. Pickles
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony J.
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Title: Distribution and denomination in Papua New Guinea: a field method and its results
Abstract: 
 In highland Papua New Guinea wealth distribution after a windfall is typically concealed by the donor. This trend was made easier by the introduction of state-issued currency, such that wealth reckoning and especially distribution preferences are often shrouded in mystery. The researcher set out to learn how denomination structures those money transfers by employing a semi-structured interview method centered around hypothetical distributions based on everyday encounters. Across four tailored ‘scenarios,’ fifteen Papua New Guinean participants dwelt on who to give money to, why, and under what conditions. Observations are made about the driving forces in distribution practices, the pecuniary conception of certain relationships’ importance, and relationships that turn on local conceptions of how to capitalize on the way money operates, thus demonstrating the utility of a culturally sensitive quantitative methodology.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 185-206
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1684338
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Author-Name: Alexis Van Bemmel
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Author-Name: Kate Parizeau
Author-X-Name-First: Kate
Author-X-Name-Last: Parizeau
Title: Is it food or is it waste? The materiality and relational agency of food waste across the value chain
Abstract: 
 Food waste has serious economic and environmental repercussions, and there is growing policy attention to this issue in Canada. This study investigates how the material characteristics of wasted food influence its circulation and management in the City of Guelph, Ontario. Based on interviews with informants across the food value chain, we learned that there is a high reliance on systems and techniques to determine when food becomes waste (including cold chains, best before dates, and aesthetic standards). We document how these systems pervade the food chain and food recovery efforts, and also note attempts to disrupt their momentum. Our analysis emphasizes the relational agency of food waste: how social and cultural contexts interact with food’s vital materiality in the determination of when it becomes waste, the circumstances under which waste can become food again, and how organic matter can find a second life as a source of energy and nutrients.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 207-220
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1684339
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Author-Name: Baki Cakici
Author-X-Name-First: Baki
Author-X-Name-Last: Cakici
Author-Name: Evelyn Ruppert
Author-X-Name-First: Evelyn
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruppert
Title: Methods as forces of subjectivation: experiments in the remaking of official statistics
Abstract: 
 We develop the concept of methods as ‘forces of subjectivation’ in relation to experiments we have encountered in a study of government methods for generating official population statistics. These experiments problematise the subjects of traditional methods based on paper questionnaires and offer new digital technologies and data sources as possible solutions. We reflect on these experiments in relation to recent work on sociological and digital research methods as inventive and live. What this work identifies in relation to questions of research methods we take up to think about government methods in two ways. One concerns how government method experiments offered as solutions to problematic subjects, once put into action, change initial problem formulations and are inventive of new ones. Secondly, they are also inventive of their subjects who do not pre-exist but come into being through the agential capacities that methods configure. Both aspects of methods, we argue, are the result of the interactions and dynamics between human and technological actors, the outcomes of which cannot be settled in advance.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 221-235
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1684340
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Author-Name: Ludovico Rella
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Title: Steps towards an ecology of money infrastructures: materiality and cultures of Ripple
Abstract: 
 Money’s materiality produces an ontological conundrum for social theory: should the analysis of money foreground the objects used as money, or the abstract relations that underpin it? Provoked by the emergence of cryptocurrencies, this paper develops a conceptualization of money as a technological and social infrastructure which directly addresses this theoretical impasse. Cryptocurrencies’ sole form of material existence coincides with their underpinning infrastructure of records, accounting and payments. In the past decade, cryptocurrencies have skyrocketed in number, and they have been applied to a host of use cases. This paper focuses on cross-border payments through the example of the fintech company Ripple, the cryptocurrency XRP, and the design of the XRP Ledger. Combining literatures from the social theory of money, science and technology studies and new materialisms, this article develops steps towards an ecological conceptualization of money infrastructures. Infrastructures, understood ecologically, include devices, active forms, and imaginaries in seamless webs of mutual relations of co-evolution. These ecologies are always potentially prone to slippage, dissolution, disassembling, reassembling and reappropriation, dependence, and competition.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 236-249
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1711532
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Author-Name: Lindsay Schakenbach Regele
Author-X-Name-First: Lindsay Schakenbach
Author-X-Name-Last: Regele
Title: Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 250-252
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Anna Thieser
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Author-X-Name-Last: Thieser
Title: Taking the Floor: Models, Morals and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 252-255
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Rimi Khan
Author-X-Name-First: Rimi
Author-X-Name-Last: Khan
Title: Creating Economy: Enterprise, Intellectual Property, and the Valuation of Goods
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 255-259
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1719873
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Author-Name: Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
Author-X-Name-First: Aris
Author-X-Name-Last: Komporozos-Athanasiou
Title: Re-imagining the future in finance capitalism
Abstract: 
 What is the role of imagination in the constitution of finance capitalism? How do the fictions, myths, and (ir)rationalities of finance shape society's ability to imagine the future in the face of mounting political instability? Well over a decade since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, today's financialised economies are still marred by stagnation and uncertainty. Against this backdrop, the increasingly speculative nature of economic forecasting, and the accelerated trading of promises of all sorts (from algorithmic and derivative markets to contemporary electoral politics) put the role of imagination centre stage. This special issue contends that, contrary to conventional wisdom, imagining the future is not necessarily equal to ‘fantasising' or to ‘irrational exuberance' or the ‘animal spirits'. Rather, it points to something much more fundamental: the power of finance to produce new social and political morphologies under conditions of radical uncertainty. The articles of the special issue confront these issues by mapping out a novel field of investigation into different, unique types of imagination undergirding finance capitalism in the years since its most recent crisis: from the future-making practices of mineral exploration and agricultural derivative markets, to the imagined futures of financial education programmes, the financialisation of creative work, and the role of future-oriented legitimacy in today’s populist politics.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 261-264
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1726794
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Author-Name: Tobias Olofsson
Author-X-Name-First: Tobias
Author-X-Name-Last: Olofsson
Title: Imagined futures in mineral exploration
Abstract: 
 This paper uses ethnographic and archival data to analyze the creation and legitimation of predictions in industrial mineral exploration in Sweden. The search for exploitable ore deposits is a finance intensive process of resource creation in which mineral explorationists (e)valuate mineral deposits in order to assess their future minability. This paper builds on the recent literature on ‘imagined futures’ and futurework and combines it with the conceptual toolkit provided by (e)valuation research in order to outline how mineral explorationists establish a deposit’s existence and its future minability. Arguing that the creation of imagined futures plays an important role in mining and other social and economic phenomena, this article shows how imagined futures are created, and by whom, in the field of industrial mineral exploration, and how the creation of these futures is situated in a universe of actors’ beliefs, of valuation devices, and of norms and standards. The paper also shows how industrial standards guide this predictive enterprise and provides legitimacy to the results.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 265-277
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1604399
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Author-Name: Jan Dutkiewicz
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Author-X-Name-Last: Dutkiewicz
Title: Uncertain hog futures: life, death, and arbitrage on the factory farm
Abstract: 
 Between 2013 and 2014, PED virus (PEDv) swept through American pig farms, killing millions of animals and causing a market panic that drove the prices of both physical pork and lean hog futures to all-time highs. However, a divergence between pricing in financial markets and on-farm realities allowed some producers to reap record profits via a unique form of biological arbitrage. This arbitrage was novel in that it allowed for an underlier (pigs) to be used to profit from fluctuations in the price of a derivative (lean hog futures). This article explores the case of PEDv to examine the entanglements and divergences between ‘real’ and ‘abstract’ values in financialized industries, paying particular attention to the schisms between the imaginaries and practices of actors in the financial and tangibly productive links of the agricultural value chain. To do so, it examines the historical co-constitution of American agriculture and the financial sector, and shows how in the contemporary moment these two ever-more-intertwined sectors are nonetheless marked by important differences. It argues that the nature of agricultural production can confound the expectations of finance, and highlights the fact that financialization entails contextually-specific practices that can lead to uneven and unexpected market outcomes.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 278-289
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1574864
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Author-Name: Stevphen Shukaitis
Author-X-Name-First: Stevphen
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Author-Name: Joanna Figiel
Author-X-Name-First: Joanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Figiel
Title: Knows no weekend: the psychological contract of cultural work in precarious times
Abstract: 
 This article explores the expanded and transformed nature of the psychological work contract for forms of cultural and artistic labour in precarious conditions. The forms of passionate work found within cultural production are argued to form a new model for governing our subjective involvement in and attachment to work. This more expansive and demanding relationship with work has become generalized beyond the specific area of cultural production into employment relationships more generally. In doing so the expanded psychological contract of work comes to operate as a form of logistical media and infrastructural governance, connecting the micropolitics of governing labour with larger structural conditions of precarity and instability. Thus, while work today is less stable in what it offers, it demands even greater psychological investment despite increased uncertainty.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 290-302
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1574863
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Author-Name: Daniel Maman
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Maman
Author-Name: Zeev Rosenhek
Author-X-Name-First: Zeev
Author-X-Name-Last: Rosenhek
Title: Facing future uncertainties and risks through personal finance: conventions in financial education
Abstract: 
 A crucial component of the neoliberal regime is the shift of responsibility for individuals’ financial well-being and security from the state and other public bodies to the individuals themselves, who are required to take responsibility for their own financial decisions and their current and future economic situation. This project of responsibilization presumes a world in which calculative subjects can estimate and manage future risks. Nonetheless, compelled to engage with the financial sphere as a key means of assuring their economic security, individuals are exposed in fact to the fundamental uncertainty of financial markets. In this article, we examine conventions formulated and communicated by financial education programs as cognitive devices geared to prompt individuals to imagine and engage with finance as a site of knowable, calculable and manageable risks, rather than as a site of fundamental uncertainty. Aiming to instill among the general public a particular cognitive frame based on the idea that possible futures are assessable and the risks that they carry can be managed through engagement with financial products and services, these conventions contribute to the normalization of financial logics in everyday life and the incorporation of the general population into the process of financialization.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 303-317
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1574865
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Author-Name: Jens Beckert
Author-X-Name-First: Jens
Author-X-Name-Last: Beckert
Title: The exhausted futures of neoliberalism: from promissory legitimacy to social anomy
Abstract: 
 The distinction between input-oriented legitimacy and output-oriented legitimacy (Scharpf, Fritz W, 1997. Economic Integration, Democracy and the Welfare State. Journal of European Public Policy, 4, 18–36) has been one of the most influential distinctions in political science. In this article I introduce a third arrangement supporting the legitimacy of political processes which I call promise-oriented legitimacy or, simply, promissory legitimacy. This term refers to the support political authority can gain from the credibility of promises political leaders make regarding future states of the world when justifying decisions and persuading others to follow them in their proposed course of action. Decisions gain support through claims about future development. Legitimacy crises arise if promises that were found credible become discredited and fail to motivate. I develop the concept of promissory legitimacy based on a discussion of what can be considered the most far-reaching political promissory regime of the last forty years: neoliberalism.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 318-330
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1574867
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Author-Name: Jorge E. Cuéllar
Author-X-Name-First: Jorge E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Cuéllar
Title: On process and function in the capitalist stack
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 331-335
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1741019
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Author-Name: Noam Yuran
Author-X-Name-First: Noam
Author-X-Name-Last: Yuran
Title: History in Financial Times
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 336-339
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1746683
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Author-Name: Jeremy R. Grossman
Author-X-Name-First: Jeremy R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Grossman
Title: Concrete Dreams: Practice, Value, and Built Environments in Post-Crisis Buenos Aires
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 340-343
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1741018
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Author-Name: Damian O’Doherty
Author-X-Name-First: Damian
Author-X-Name-Last: O’Doherty
Title: On the beginning of formal organization
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 598-601
Issue: 6
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1461122
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Author-Name: Marilyn Strathern
Author-X-Name-First: Marilyn
Author-X-Name-Last: Strathern
Title: A response in the first person
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 591-594
Issue: 6
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1470549
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Author-Name: Kevin Funk
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Title: Between freedom and futility: on the political uses of corporate globalizing discourses
Abstract: 
 From frequent television advertisements to posters in jet bridges all over the globe, the public is continuously subjected to messages affirming the inception of a flat, borderless world. While these discourses suggest globalization is bringing humanity together into a globally connected, cosmopolitan world order, such corporate advertisements also seek to convey the desirability and inevitability of a borderless economy in which they may roam unfettered. To illustrate how these ideas are communicated, I investigate three emblematic cases: Emirates Airlines, HSBC, and Itaú. By interrogating their public discourses, this article elucidates how powerful actors seek to construct global (or regional–global) imaginaries for consumers by deploying esthetically pleasing (and, at times, seemingly ‘subversive’) advertisements. Their ultimate effect is to demonstrate the would-be futility of attempts to regulate the spread of global capitalism or their own profit-seeking behavior. Through showing how pop-culture artifacts attempt to ‘sell’ teleological global capitalism to audiences, this article contributes to the burgeoning literature on the cultural political economy of globalization. To conclude, I briefly explore how this analysis relates to important political debates concerning agency in globalization, the feasibility of state regulation of global capitalism, and the construction of alternative global imaginaries/orders.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 565-590
Issue: 6
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1477687
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Author-Name: Carina Guyard
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Author-Name: Anne Kaun
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Author-X-Name-Last: Kaun
Title: Workfulness: governing the disobedient brain
Abstract: 
 The Scandinavian telecommunication company Telenor recently introduced the notion of Workfulness by adapting digital detox to the workplace. Workfulness is a management program aimed at technology-intensive companies that rely strongly on digital media. The program encompasses strategies of disconnection for employees, including mobile and email-free work hours and technology-free meetings, in order to enhance focus and efficiency. This article investigates Workfulness as one prominent example of managerial approaches that are based on neuroscientific assumptions about human decision-making. Drawing on textual materials and interviews, the analysis shows that Workfulness manages digital distractions in the workplace by establishing a form of stimulus-control rather than appealing to rational self-control. Workfulness alludes to the necessity of making choices, but it considers unconscious behavior, which is explained with reference to preconscious workings of the brain. The human brain becomes a battleground between rational and impulsive decisions, and it is the disobedient brain that needs to be governed in order to become an efficient employee. We situate the Workfulness program as part of and at the same time extending the biopolitical economy by incorporating advances in neurosciences into modes of governance.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 535-548
Issue: 6
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1481877
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Author-Name: Liz Moor
Author-X-Name-First: Liz
Author-X-Name-Last: Moor
Author-Name: Celia Lury
Author-X-Name-First: Celia
Author-X-Name-Last: Lury
Title: Price and the person: markets, discrimination, and personhood
Abstract: 
 This paper explores how pricing has historically been involved in the making up of persons and how the ability to ‘personalize’ price is reconfiguring the ability of markets to discriminate. We discuss a variety of contemporary pricing practices, and three types of personhood they produce: generic, protected, and transcontextual. While some contemporary developments in pricing draw on understandings of the person that are quite familiar, others are novel and likely to be contested. We argue that many newer pricing techniques make it harder for consumers to identify themselves as part of a recognized group. We conclude that contemporary price personalization should be understood in terms of the intensification of individualization in combination with dividualization, and as such, contributes to novel and consequential forms of classification.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 501-513
Issue: 6
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1481878
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Author-Name: Mateusz Halawa
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Author-X-Name-Last: Halawa
Author-Name: Marta Olcoń-Kubicka
Author-X-Name-First: Marta
Author-X-Name-Last: Olcoń-Kubicka
Title: Digital householding: calculating and moralizing domestic life through homemade spreadsheets
Abstract: 
 Based on ethnographic fieldwork among young heterosexual middle-class couples living together in Warsaw and its suburbs, this article explores the role of their homemade accounting and budgeting spreadsheets in the manufacture of domestic economic life. We argue that such digital forms actively intervene in the representation, constitution, shaping, and performing of their respective households as calculative agencies and moralized domains. We present and analyse a case study of five couple's householding with software, and based on that analysis call for an extension of the current interest in the generative role of financial devices from markets to households.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 514-534
Issue: 6
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1486728
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Author-Name: Tomáš Samec
Author-X-Name-First: Tomáš
Author-X-Name-Last: Samec
Title: Performing housing debt attachments: forming semi-financialised subjects
Abstract: 
 This article contributes to the understanding of how first-time buyers and their parents form attachments to housing debt. Interviews, carried out in the Czech Republic, with 40 first-time homebuyers and 10 with their parents were used to identify multiple layers of debt performativity. These layers consist of statements expressing moral evaluations and emotions; calculative and cognitive devices; and references to practices. Two arguments are advanced through a framework of layered performativity. The first argument concerns the subjectivities of debtors. Debtors adopt investment concepts in their statements and use calculative devices. However, by relying on familial moral orders of security and familial financial transfers, these debtors must be regarded rather as semi-financialised subjects. The second argument relates to the re-configuration of social and economic relations in families. Debt attachment endorses the use of intergenerational financial transfers, which in turn may enforce continued intra-familial reciprocity, both in terms of the recipients’ obligation to the providers of a gift or loan as well as concerning an obligation to help their children attain homeownership in the future. Finally, intergenerational transfers also transform the character of the mortgage market and mortgage debt, making informal debts an important part of formal debt circuits.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 549-564
Issue: 6
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1493611
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Author-Name: Brayden King
Author-X-Name-First: Brayden
Author-X-Name-Last: King
Title: Taking aim at or making friends with the metaphysical theorists
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 595-597
Issue: 6
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1506814
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Author-Name: Signe Vikkelsø
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Author-X-Name-Last: Vikkelsø
Title: The sun also rises
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 602-607
Issue: 6
Volume: 11
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1528474
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Author-Name: Amalie Martinus Hauge
Author-X-Name-First: Amalie Martinus
Author-X-Name-Last: Hauge
Title: Organizational trials of valuation: insights from the work of leaning the patient distribution process at a children’s hospital
Abstract: 
 Management devices from industrial sectors are proliferating in the public sector, a trend now being accused of undermining the proper values of public organizations. A prominent example of such a management device is lean management, which is a set of principles and tools employed by contemporary management consultants to eliminate waste and promote value – often for the sake of efficiency. While lean management has been particularly welcomed in the healthcare sector, healthcare professionals are increasingly resisting attempts at leaning their work processes. Applying the notion of trials of valuation, this study empirically unfolds the conflicts arising when lean management is used to reorganize the task of distributing patients to beds in a children’s hospital. Following the turn to value and the pragmatic tenet of studying values as the outcome of work, this paper suggests that the effects of a management device on the values of an organization can fruitfully be investigated for its ability to organize. Further, the paper contributes to the field of valuation studies with a heuristic to undertake such an investigation, directing attention towards the object of valuation, the temporal and spatial dimensions of the valuation situation, and the knowledge used to inform that valuation.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 54-69
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1481876
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Author-Name: Paul du Gay
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Author-X-Name-Last: du Gay
Author-Name: Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Lopdrup-Hjorth
Author-Name: Kirstine Zinck Pedersen
Author-X-Name-First: Kirstine Zinck
Author-X-Name-Last: Pedersen
Author-Name: Anne Obling Roelsgaard
Author-X-Name-First: Anne Obling
Author-X-Name-Last: Roelsgaard
Title: Character and organization
Abstract: 
 In recent years, questions of ‘character’ have become increasingly prominent in a range of policy contexts, from education to social welfare and from business to healthcare. What unites these various contemporary paens is an assumption that building ‘character’ is a crucial component of ethics and that it holds the key to establishing and maintaining virtuous conduct; moreover, that the cultivation of ‘character’ is at best under-valued and at worst actively undermined and denigrated in any number of contemporary economic and organizational practices. In this paper, we seek to interrogate key aspects of this upsurge of interest in ‘character’ as it has been articulated in particular recent and on-going debates about the reform of organizational life. We argue that this ‘turn’ suffers precisely from an abstraction and lack of contextual specificity – not simply in relation to questions of ‘character formation,’ but also in regard to matters of organization, and indeed the relationship of the one to the other – that severely curtails both its ethical reach and explanatory power.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 36-53
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1481879
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Title: (Not) getting paid to do what you love: gender, social media, and aspirational work, by Brooke Erin Duffy
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 90-93
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1496945
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Author-X-Name-Last: Zalewski
Title: The Moral Economists: R.H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E.P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism, by Tim Rogan
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 97-99
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 1
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Author-Name: Vik Loveday
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Title: The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money, by Brian Caplan
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 93-97
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1503612
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Author-Name: Barbara Jenkins
Author-X-Name-First: Barbara
Author-X-Name-Last: Jenkins
Title: A guaranteed basic income and the aesthetics of existence
Abstract: 
 The recent implementation of various guaranteed basic income (GBI) trials presents an opportunity to consider how such policies should be evaluated. If past experience is any guide, they will be judged primarily on the basis of quantitative factors such as cost and labour market impact. While these considerations remain relevant, some of the most transformative aspects of a GBI will happen at the ‘aesthetic’ level of affect, sensibilities, and attitudes. Using an ethico-aesthetic approach drawing on the work of Foucault, Guattari, Deleuze, and Lazzarato, I examine the dynamic, interactive impact a GBI could have on conceptions of work, welfare and gender. I argue that a GBI can be a key component of a new aesthetic of existence based on a critical ethics of self care.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 21-35
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1504227
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Author-Name: Daniel Thomas Cook
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Cook
Title: Children’s market researchers as moral brokers
Abstract: 
 Drawing on interviews with children’s market researchers, brand managers and other market actors in North America, the UK and Europe, this study analyzes and positions children’s market professionals as knowledge brokers and moral interlocutors who transact between and among clients, colleagues and, at times, parents. The transactions – as understood by practitioners – extend beyond simply seeking to elicit ‘preferences’ for this or that product or experience and suggesting ‘market solutions’ to the immediate business problem at hand. Rather, the cultural labor exerted here resembles a continual sorting process in pursuit of the distinction between the child as a dependent economic actor from the child as a moral being worthy of recognition and commercial deference. They thereby strive to enable the continuity – i.e. erase the boundary – between markets and culture by enacting sympathy, sentiment and even intimacy in the conceptualization and execution of research. Investigating how these market professionals understand, construct and act upon children as economic actors, while situated amidst public, moral discourses to the contrary, opens possibilities to examine how value arises in the cultural practice of making social persons and how social personhood in some ways modulates and informs market exigencies.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 70-82
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1514316
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Author-Name: Luke Stark
Author-X-Name-First: Luke
Author-X-Name-Last: Stark
Title: Desanctifying the charisma of numbers
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 83-89
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1527710
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Author-Name: Glen O’Hara
Author-X-Name-First: Glen
Author-X-Name-Last: O’Hara
Title: How can experts help governments think?: inaugural lecture
Abstract: 
 Britain’s exit from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992 and the Second Iraq War in 2003 are two infamous examples of disastrous policy, but governments blunder all the time – whatever party is in power. Infrastructure projects overrun. The aims and techniques of different departments clash. Scandals erupt among officials and politicians. Controversies stymie attempts at agreement and consensus. But why exactly do these failures happen? Are they more or less widespread than in the private sector? And can studying British governments’ decision-making across the twentieth century improve it in the future? In his May 2018 inaugural lecture, Professor O'Hara recommended a slow, deliberative, transparent, democratic and above all humble and sensitive approach in order to avoid another Black Wednesday or ruinous war – an approach in contrast to the populist tone of much recent debate.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 1-20
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1552610
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Author-Name: Adam Richard Rottinghaus
Author-X-Name-First: Adam Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Rottinghaus
Title: Il/legitimate exchange: histories of fraud and activist businesses
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 169-175
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1531435
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Author-Name: Julia Kirch Kirkegaard
Author-X-Name-First: Julia Kirch
Author-X-Name-Last: Kirkegaard
Author-Name: Koray Caliskan
Author-X-Name-First: Koray
Author-X-Name-Last: Caliskan
Title: When socialists marketize: the case of China’s wind power market sector
Abstract: 
 This paper analyzes China’s attempt at maintaining and stabilizing the market framing of wind power development as ‘sustainable.’ Drawing on mixed data and new directions in the social studies of marketization, the analysis focuses on the Chinese government’s responses to the ‘quality crisis’ in the wind turbine industry. Employing five types of framing – goods, marketizing agencies, market encounters, price-setting, and market design and maintenance – the paper sheds light on flexible government interventions to steer the socio-technical assemblage around wind power towards a ‘turn to quality.’ In essence, this is a study of market construction in the context of Chinese wind power experiments. The paper contributes to new directions in market studies by (1) demonstrating the importance of attending to the contested algorithmic transformation of wind resources to wind power; (2) taking market studies to a transitional and developmental context, which renders marketization prone to constant overflowing; and (3) elucidating a particular Chinese model of experimental market construction ‘through embracing overflowing.’ The paper proposes new trajectories for future market studies with a focus on non-Western contexts, to reveal the wide variety of how marketization unfolds.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 154-168
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1544581
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Author-Name: Rachel O’Dwyer
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel
Author-X-Name-Last: O’Dwyer
Title: Cache society: transactional records, electronic money, and cultural resistance
Abstract: 
 Money is an ‘instrument of collective memory’ before it is a means of exchange, a unit of account or a store of value. Money's status as a memory technology is particularly significant in light of the role that information and communication technologies now play in economic transactions. Many of the new channels and infrastructures for payments, such as magnetic cards, mobile phones, the wired Internet, social media platforms, and RFID technologies, record detailed transactional data alongside a range of other identifying data. We now have extremely detailed records of the many ways that money circulates, is transferred and is spent. This paper concerns this previously latent transactional data and how it is currently recorded, monetised, and used to inform action. What has been recorded in and about money at different moments in time and how are these categories breaking down? Who has access to and ownership over this collectively produced record and how is it driving new data practices and business models based on the monetisation and application of monetary records? And how might re-engaging with money's mnemonic status help to foreground a politics and ethics of transactional data?
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 133-153
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1545243
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Author-Name: Kai Koddenbrock
Author-X-Name-First: Kai
Author-X-Name-Last: Koddenbrock
Title: Money and moneyness: thoughts on the nature and distributional power of the ‘backbone’ of capitalist political economy
Abstract: 
 This paper contends that political economy may profit from an understanding of money that is both able to account for its systemic importance as well as money’s specific role for the contemporary distribution of wealth. ‘Money-ness’ is a strategic factor in profit-making and capital accumulation. If we accord moneyness to all those instruments that make the repackaging of credit and other financial assets and liabilities and their capitalization possible, we arrive at an understanding of money that underscores the Marxian analysis of the structural importance of the money relation for capital accumulation that is up to speed with current financial innovations. As a social structure and process, moneymaking through capital permeates society. As a public-private deal between the state, rentiers, banks, and taxpayers that has existed since the foundation of the Bank of England in 1694, it binds these actors together in shifting relations of dependence. Under financial capitalism today, what counts as money and how far moneyness stretches into the realms of financial innovation has been a core object of struggle in the public-private deal of money creation.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 101-118
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1545684
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Author-Name: Inês Faria
Author-X-Name-First: Inês
Author-X-Name-Last: Faria
Title: Trust, reputation and ambiguous freedoms: financial institutions and subversive libertarians navigating blockchain, markets, and regulation
Abstract: 
 This article departs from the post 2008 financial crisis context, from its intersection with technological developments, and from the socio-technical arrangements configured by this conjuncture. It explores plans and actions – of mainstream financial institutions, and of a community seeking for alternatives to centralised economy and governance – for the use of digital platforms supported by blockchain infrastructure. In particular, it explores how such plans and actions relate to conceptions of public and peer trust and how they appear to produce, or reinforce, reputational imaginaries and quantification practices within added value philosophies. By illuminating a tension between the two identified case examples, I seek to render alternative communities’ and financial institutions’ conceptions, imaginaries and practices (more) visible and to analyse their organisational marketing strategies – where there is a pragmatic and discursive operationalisation of technology as well as of trust as means to gain more self-sovereignty in action, while navigating markets and regulated actual world contexts.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 119-132
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1547986
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Author-Name: Aaron Heresco
Author-X-Name-First: Aaron
Author-X-Name-Last: Heresco
Title: Media Amnesia, by Laura Basu
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 178-180
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1547987
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Author-Name: Michael Zakim
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Zakim
Title: The Creativity Hoax: Precarious Work and the Gig Economy, by George Morgan and Pariece Nelligan
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 176-178
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1547988
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Author-Name: Joyce Goggin
Author-X-Name-First: Joyce
Author-X-Name-Last: Goggin
Title: The Social Life of Financial Derivatives: Markets, Risk, and Time, by Ed LiPuma
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 180-184
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1570539
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Author-Name: Mrinalini Tankha
Author-X-Name-First: Mrinalini
Author-X-Name-Last: Tankha
Author-Name: Ursula Dalinghaus
Author-X-Name-First: Ursula
Author-X-Name-Last: Dalinghaus
Title: Mapping the intermediate: lived technologies of money and value
Abstract: 
 As financial transactions are increasingly digitized, old and new kinds of intermediaries are only expanding in importance. Intermediaries, mediators and brokers sit at critical junctures and operate between diverse financial arenas and pathways. We argue that mapping the intermediate entails identifying how different kinds of actors—human and non-human, objects and interfaces, institutions and practices—delimit or reify but also stitch together and overcome spatial and temporal differences in people's financial lives, while taking on varying burdens of risk. Mapping the intermediate is both an empirical and methodological exercise. Empirically, it requires following the agents and traders, brokers and material objects that facilitate transactions and add, extract, or re-work different kinds of value. Methodologically, intermediaries and the intermediate are not only the objects of analysis but act as analytical tools in their own right, making the process and politics of transactions visible and tangible. Attending to the intermediate in our inquiries around money, currency and new digital financial technologies, thereby, offers new directions for grounding finance in politics and history and better connecting micro and macro and local and global economic processes.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 345-352
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1779112
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Author-Name: Elisa Oreglia
Author-X-Name-First: Elisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Oreglia
Author-Name: Janaki Srinivasan
Author-X-Name-First: Janaki
Author-X-Name-Last: Srinivasan
Title: Human and non-human intermediation in rural agricultural markets
Abstract: 
 A central trope of the information society is that of ‘information flows.’ The implicit assumption underlying such a vision involves the removal of gatekeepers and intermediaries who are perceived to impede such flows. Drawing from field research on information circulation, trade, and money in rural markets in Myanmar and India, we show why intermediaries persist alongside information and communication technologies (ICTs) in trade and financial transactions in the ‘Information Age.’ We examine the range of roles, (human and non-human) actors, and material practices that are involved in conducting financial transactions, and we show the importance of historical legacies and politics in explaining why both cash and financial intermediaries persist in the digital age. Focusing on the different value that human and non-human intermediaries bring to financial encounters helps explain what characteristics make each resilient or replaceable in a time of change. By situating intermediaries and mediations in the social relations within which they operate, we bring back the role of power and politics – an element that is often missing in accounts focused on the unmediated and ‘free’ circulation of information using ICTs – in explaining processes of mediation and circulation.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 353-367
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1544918
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Author-Name: Christopher Paek
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher
Author-X-Name-Last: Paek
Title: Mediating microinsurance: the techniques of translation
Abstract: 
 Over the past decade, microinsurance has taken off in South Africa. The strength of this market is fuelled almost exclusively by funeral insurance, unsurprising considering the immense cultural value South Africans place on funerals. Moreover, insurance companies have achieved scale by working through brokers who are embedded within community-based institutions like burial societies and funeral parlours. The incursion of ‘insurance culture’ into this sphere has thus resulted in an ecosystem in which formal and informal institutions are in fluid states of tension and cooperation. Mediators sustain this ecosystem and enable the extension of microinsurance into low-income communities. I employ Bruno Latour’s notion of ‘translation’ in my analysis of three types of mediators: insurance agents, funeral parlour operators, and burial society administrators. The paper, which is based on fieldwork I conducted in Cape Town, South Africa, focuses on these actors’ specific techniques of translation, i.e. the different strategies/practices used to reconcile the disparate rationalities and institutions of the formal insurance system with those of the informal risk management sphere. An analysis attuned to the various social identities and positions embodied by these brokers reveals the dislocations, ambiguities, conflicts, and opportunities generated by the expansion of microinsurance markets into the low-income terrain.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 368-386
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1639528
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Author-Name: Isabelle Guérin
Author-X-Name-First: Isabelle
Author-X-Name-Last: Guérin
Author-Name: Govindan Venkatasubramanian
Author-X-Name-First: Govindan
Author-X-Name-Last: Venkatasubramanian
Author-Name: Santosh Kumar
Author-X-Name-First: Santosh
Author-X-Name-Last: Kumar
Title: Rethinking saving: Indian ceremonial gifts as relational and reproductive saving
Abstract: 
 Economic anthropology has long advocated a broader vision of savings than that proposed by economists. This article extends this redefinitional effort by examining ceremonial gifts in India and arguing that they are a specific form of savings. Rural households, including those at the bottom of the pyramid, do save, in the sense of storing, accumulating and circulating value. But this takes place via particular forms of mediation that allow savers to forge or maintain social and emotional relations, to keep control over value – what matters in people’s lives – and over spaces and their own future. We propose terming these practices relational and reproductive saving, insofar as their main objective is to sustain life across generations. By contrast, trying to encourage saving via bank mediation may dispossess populations of control over their wealth, their socialisation, their territories and their time. In an increasingly financialised world of evermore aggressive policies to push people into financial inclusion, the social, symbolic, cultural and political aspects of diverse forms of financial mediation deserve our full attention.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 387-401
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1583594
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Author-Name: Noman Baig
Author-X-Name-First: Noman
Author-X-Name-Last: Baig
Title: ‘Its gait is too brisk:’ money mobility in Karachi’s foreign exchange market
Abstract: 
 The global spread of finance capitalism has ushered in a speculative nature of currency trade and has given rise to new forms of subjectivity. Narrowing the ethnographic gaze on a thirty-seven year old currency trader in Karachi, this paper advances two arguments. The first argument relates to the materiality of foreign exchange and their effects on traders’ bodies. In spot trading, the currency traders experience foreign currency as an affective quality breathing down heavily on the senses. The second argument points to an interconnected nature of foreign exchange markets. Using Knorr Cetina and Breugger's notion of ‘global microstructures,’ I demonstrate the ways in which a currency trader, operating in a post-9/11 counter-terrorist surveillance milieu in the country, negotiates the micro and global scales of economy. Grounded in ethnographic research in Pakistan, this paper explores the ways in which foreign currency, especially of the metropole, is circulated, exchanged, and imagined in a postcolonial context, and hence contributes to an emerging scholarship of anthropology of money and finance.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 402-414
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1604400
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Author-Name: Maria Eriksson
Author-X-Name-First: Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Eriksson
Title: The editorial playlist as container technology: on Spotify and the logistical role of digital music packages
Abstract: 
 This article explores the role of editorial playlists in Spotify’s streaming economy. In particular, it approaches Spotify’s playlists as container technologies – i.e. technical solutions that assemble, preserve, and transport music objects and thereby uphold logistical operations within the music industry. Such an approach seeks to complement previous research concerning playlists, which has often analyzed their emotional and affective dimensions but paid less attention to how playlists enhance calculative, mathematical, and logistical retail flows within the online music economy. On the one hand, the article considers how playlists – like containers in general – materialize principles of modularization and automation in ways that enhance control and remote oversight. On the other hand, it discusses how the playlist is far from a perfected means of measurement and control, and sometimes acts as an unruly transport device. Ultimately, the article shows how the playlist format occupies an uneasy position between order and disorder within the digital music economy which has not yet been fully accounted for in the context of music-oriented media studies.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 415-427
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1708780
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Author-Name: Lindsay J. DePalma
Author-X-Name-First: Lindsay J.
Author-X-Name-Last: DePalma
Title: The separation of economy and sentiment: a comparison of how individuals perceive hostile worlds
Abstract: 
 Analyses of the relationship between economy and sentiment tend to focus on connection rather than separation. Scholars recognize that individuals sometimes identify moral conflicts between economy and sentiment, but primarily focus their research on the boundary or relational work performed to mitigate or disappear the conflict. Instead, I analyze how individuals talk about the relationship between economy and sentiment as separate or hostile, comparing two theoretically distinct groups: non-religious individuals and practicing evangelicals. The comparison allows me to analyze patterns of discourse and boundary-making based on access to institutionalized culture. I find that both groups articulate perceptions of hostile worlds by: (1) maintaining the taboo against talking about money, (2) recommending neutral separation, and (3) demarcating areas of life as too sacred for money. Through comparison, I find that non-religious respondents describe a less permeable vertical boundary line, whereby economy and sentiment are separated into separate spheres, as if side-by-side, while evangelicals describe a more permeable horizontal boundary line, where separation is maintained through the use of consistent hierarchical discourses that assert the moral importance of sentiment over economy. My findings underscore how unequal access to cultural schema differentially shape how individuals connect economy and sentiment, if at all.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 428-443
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1708778
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Author-Name: Zachary Griffen
Author-X-Name-First: Zachary
Author-X-Name-Last: Griffen
Author-Name: Aaron Panofsky
Author-X-Name-First: Aaron
Author-X-Name-Last: Panofsky
Title: VAM on trial: judging science in teacher evaluation lawsuits
Abstract: 
 Value Added Modeling (VAM) is a statistical technology used to evaluate teacher effectiveness. While it was heralded for years as the next big innovation in education reform, VAM has become an object of legal scrutiny since it was implemented in dozens of states across the U.S. Building on STS findings about science and the law, this paper considers the lawsuits involving VAM as an opportunity to analyze the contestation of expertise in court. It finds that not only is there a great deal of variation in terms of how expertise gets constructed in legal settings, leading to very different outcomes, but also that judges’ assessments of VAM are conducted such that they are implicitly adjudicating what constitutes proper science. Contrary to the idea that judges conform to criteria for evaluating expertise imposed by the scientific community limiting themselves to the inclusion or exclusion of expertise, in the case of VAM the legal system is asserting its own vision of how science should operate and thus making judgments about what counts authentically as science.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 444-460
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1726792
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Author-Name: Zheng Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Zheng
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Title: Between business and morality: cultural politics in independent bookshops in China
Abstract: 
 This article investigates how cultural businesses may facilitate contentious political activity in authoritarian contexts. Existing research in Western liberal democracies has shown the widespread political activism of actors in the cultural and creative industries. Whether such activism exists in authoritarian society, how it may differ in character and form, and what implications this will have for our understanding of relations between business, politics, and culture in authoritarian countries remain to be addressed. Drawing on data collected from 55 ‘independent bookshops’ in China, I illustrate how these organisations perform ‘cultural politics,’ a type of political participation in which actors employ mainly symbolic means to express social and political concerns. The organisations’ economic relations and conditions facilitate their efforts to create spaces in which contentious questions can be raised, sensitive topics explored, and alternative ideas expressed, despite the Chinese state’s political regulation of the cultural sphere. The finding of the economic embeddedness of cultural politics sheds new light on our understanding of the political economy of cultural businesses in contemporary China.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 461-474
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 7
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Author-Name: Mengqi Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Mengqi
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Title: The craft of urgency: performing prosperity, running capital, and the making of a buying crowd in home presales in Nanjing, China
Abstract: 
 This article examines home presales – the selling of future residential properties – at the urban fringe of Nanjing, China. It argues for an analytical focus on urgency as a temporal quality that creates the local housing market and facilitates urban accumulation. I examine how urgency, grounded in a linear imagination of urban development, motivates home presales for developers, estate agents, and homebuyers. In particular, to speed up the turnaround time of investment, developers conjure up a vision of prosperity by building extravagant sales centers to organize home presales. Estate agents working at the sales center organize promotional events to attract, register, and manage a buying crowd. If properly managed, the buying crowd could reach the size of a festival-like presale, whereby hundreds of apartments are sold within one day. Capital at the urban fringe accumulates through the synchronization of these activities in which the sales center crafts an affective temporality of transaction by cultivating and managing an exuberant buying crowd. The craft of urgency emphasizes the performative agencement that assembles the condition for urgency to come into being.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 475-488
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 7
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Author-Name: William Benton
Author-X-Name-First: William
Author-X-Name-Last: Benton
Title: Showing and coding: venture pitching and nonmaterial production
Abstract: 
 This article explores practices of representation and role stabilization in an emerging innovation ecosystem in Beirut, Lebanon. With little local track record of software startup activity, any overt practices of venture or business process representation were of immediate utility. The two moments explored, a pitch session at a mentorship committee meeting and a startup founding competition, capture parts of the nascent topology of a venture development setting in the making. In both, pitches for software products were at the heart of the productive process, and this paper argues that these moments of performative representation were not surplus to the process of founding a startup, but rather are crucial productive elements in themselves. Early-stage software development consists of a constant oscillation between making and modeling. The interdependence of writing software code, stabilizing social platforms for work and industry development, and finding specialists who could relate these tasks was crucial to the development of this business ecosystem in Lebanon. It was a system in motion, built of code and confidence. The circulation of information crucial to decision making within a single project required distinct practices of publicity, which in turn required articulatory platforms.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 489-501
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 7
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Author-Name: Christopher M. Duerringer
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher M.
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Title: Making Global MBAs: The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 502-504
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1772338
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Author-Name: Siobhan Lyons
Author-X-Name-First: Siobhan
Author-X-Name-Last: Lyons
Title: Social avalanche: crowds, cities and financial markets
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 504-507
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 7
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Author-Name: Jasmine D. Hill
Author-X-Name-First: Jasmine D.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hill
Title: Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 507-510
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1772339
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Author-Name: Tommy Tse
Author-X-Name-First: Tommy
Author-X-Name-Last: Tse
Author-Name: Victor Shin
Author-X-Name-First: Victor
Author-X-Name-Last: Shin
Author-Name: Ling Tung Tsang
Author-X-Name-First: Ling Tung
Author-X-Name-Last: Tsang
Title: From shanzhai chic to Gangnam style: seven practices of cultural-economic mediation in China and Korea
Abstract: 
 This paper examines the social construction of ‘fashionability’ – namely, what is ‘desirable’ and ‘fashionable’ – with reference to the concept ‘cultural mediators’ that foregrounds agency, negotiation and the contested practices of market actors in cultural production. It zeroes in on the cultural mediators’ attitudes and positions in the two markets by drawing on 25 in-depth interviews with industry veterans. It shows that the mediators in South Korea and China increasingly occupy hybrid occupational roles and social positions across industries and sectors yet achieve limited success in countering the status quo of Western fashion through mediation. The analysis contributes to the literature with a categorisation of seven mediation practices that shape the valuation of fashion products (i.e. ‘fashionability’) in two ways. Empirically, this categorisation illuminates how cultural mediators make reference habitually to the broader social and cultural contexts to co-construct cultural-aesthetic objects. Theoretically, it advances a cultural-economic approach to the understanding of cultural mediation and challenges the reductionist viewpoint of actor–network theory through the notion of a matrix of cultural-economic agency.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 511-530
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 9
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Author-Name: Jakob Feinig
Author-X-Name-First: Jakob
Author-X-Name-Last: Feinig
Title: Toward a moral economy of money? Money as a creature of democracy
Abstract: 
 This paper proposes a novel approach for understanding money users’ relation to monetary governance institutions. It first describes the stakes involved in monetary governance from a neo-chartalist/MMT perspective. In a second step, it discusses existing contributions on the relation between money issuer and money users, highlighting the literatures on central bank legitimacy and the social construction of money. It argues that neither allows for an analysis of the relation between monetary institutions and money users that takes the latter’s knowledge seriously. It then argues that the concept of moral economy can enrich scholarly analysis. Moral economies of money are defined as collective practices in which money users articulate demands as part of an understanding of money as a public good. Finally, the paper deploys the moral economy of money perspective to reconstruct the changing relation between institutions of monetary governance and money users since the Great Depression in the U.S. It shows how New Dealers silenced a moral economy of money, discusses fragmented moral economies after World War II, and the partial reemergence of such moral economies after the Great Financial Crisis. The paper concludes by discussing political implications and suggestions for further research.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 531-547
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 9
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Author-Name: Steve Garlick
Author-X-Name-First: Steve
Author-X-Name-Last: Garlick
Title: The nature of markets: on the affinity between masculinity and (neo)liberalism
Abstract: 
 The relationship between masculinity, neoliberalism, and capitalist economy is difficult to analyse. This is apparent when we consider recent studies of neoliberal capitalism, which are almost entirely books about men, and yet this feature consistently escapes critical attention. In contrast, this article brings this relation into focus, and suggests that the critique of hegemonic masculinities is an important feature of the critique of neoliberalism. The article first reviews existing literature on the intersection of masculinity and capitalism, which is increasingly being drawn towards the analysis of neoliberalism. It then briefly takes up Michel Foucault’s study of neoliberalism, especially his contention that classical liberalism’s concern with the nature of markets maintains an ambiguous persistence within the neoliberal project, in order to consider what it may have to offer to an analysis of masculinity and neoliberalism. Finally, I turn to one of the key thinkers in the intellectual development of neoliberalism – Ludwig von Mises – and provide a critical rereading of his 1944 book Bureaucracy. I argue that, beneath its veneer of economic rationality, the text mobilizes masculinity as a technology that is crucial to managing both the affective and economic insecurities generated by neoliberal conceptions of freedom in market-based societies.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 548-560
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1741017
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Author-Name: Mandy de Wilde
Author-X-Name-First: Mandy
Author-X-Name-Last: de Wilde
Title: A care-infused market tale: on (not) maintaining relationships of trust in energy retrofit products
Abstract: 
 Issues of maintenance offer exceptional opportunities for advancing our understanding of how market-driven innovation can meet societal objectives for energy transitions. In this article, I present a case study of ongoing attempts by two spin-outs and one start-up to stabilise innovative socio-technical agencements – ‘customer journeys’ – designed to catalyse economic exchange of certain singular goods – energy retrofit products – in the Netherlands. This market-driven innovation relies on sustaining carefully crafted relationships of trust among supply-chain actants and homeowners. I mobilise the analytical lens of ‘care’ to show how the multiplicity of connections that form through socio-technical agencements – and function as a market – are tentative, contested, and unpredictable. Trust relationships are in a constant process of becoming through contestation and convergence among supply-chain actants. In doing so, I expose the precarious and arduous work involved in maintaining a market for singular public goods. This implies a knowledge politics as well: in a call to sensitise us, market scholars, to processes of maintenance integral to market-driven innovation for energy transitions I propose to advance Callon’s call to civilise markets by sharing troubled, though encouraging, care-infused market tales in an effort to counteract the storification of energy transitions as innovation fairy tales.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 561-578
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1741016
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Author-Name: Seung Cheol Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Seung Cheol
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: The moral economy of face: marketized gift and depoliticized solidarity in South Korea’s fair trade
Abstract: 
 Metaphors of ‘face’ are often found in South Korea’s fair trade activism, as fair trade is frequently described as ‘face-to-face commerce’ and its goal is presented as pursuing ‘global trade with a human face.’ By asking how and why fair trade relies on the metaphors of face, this article analyzes the political implications and limits of the trope. I first examine the intimate connection between gift-exchange and face based on Marcel Mauss’s analysis of the gift and I present face as a locus of symbolic recognition and politics. Next, drawing on ethnographic research into Beautiful Coffee, the largest fair trade organization in South Korea, I illuminate fair trade as a hybrid practice of ‘marketized gift-exchange’ in which the various faces of producers and consumers are produced and circulated along with market transactions. In examining the meanings of those faces, I maintain that the prevalent metaphor of face in fair trade betrays the contradictory nature of market-based solidarity that is sought through the activism to redefine the whole economic structure based on moral and ethical practices.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 579-591
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1749107
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Author-Name: Joscha Wullweber
Author-X-Name-First: Joscha
Author-X-Name-Last: Wullweber
Title: Embedded finance: the shadow banking system, sovereign power, and a new state–market hybridity
Abstract: 
 With the rise of the shadow banking system, a new form of state–market hybridity has emerged, challenging existing monetary approaches to financial stability. A stable financial system today has essentially come to depend on a stable shadow banking system. Central banks are in the process of adapting to this new development. To secure the logic of laissez-faire market liberalism, the sovereign must resort to unprecedented measures and radically intervene in the financial markets. This new form of state–market hybridity forces central banks to provide ample reserves, to act as a dealer of last resort, and to give shadow banking actors access to their balance sheets. Such policies, however, produce new contradictions and fragilities. Based on Foucault's concepts of sovereignty and security, this paper argues that in today's world, the rationality of the laissez-faire security dispositif has become flanked by the rationality of sovereignty to a much greater extent than previously. Without losing its dominant status, the security dispositif is currently adapting so as to operate in crisis mode based on a post-laissez-faire rationality. The repo crisis of 2019 has demonstrated that central banks are still in the process of searching for ways to handle this new constellation.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 592-609
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1741015
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Author-Name: Gizem Zencirci
Author-X-Name-First: Gizem
Author-X-Name-Last: Zencirci
Title: Markets of Islam: performative charity and the Muslim middle classes in Turkey
Abstract: 
 This article examines the ways in which middle class Muslims in Turkey talk about Islamic ‘community’ and analyses these discourses in relation to the phenomenon of market Islam. The evidence is drawn from the author’s ethnographic fieldwork with donors, managers, and volunteers of a government friendly Islamic NGO, the Light House (Deniz Feneri Sosyal Yardımlaşma ve Dayanışma Derneği) in 2009–2010, followed by subsequent trips in 2013 and 2015. I argue that Islamic charity is not merely a calculative economic behaviour or a reflection of deep-seated religious values, but rather a performative site of market Islam. In seeking to reconcile a faith-based understanding of charity with diverse interpretations of the neoliberal economy, I show that middle-class Muslims adhered to two discourses of ‘community’: whereas donors saw charitable giving as a market-enhancing mechanism, NGO managers defined their charitable work as part of an Islamic project focused on economic redistribution. Although they conceptualized the relationship between faith and markets in divergent ways, both discourses of market Islam posit ‘community’ as an intrinsic component of governing the poor in Turkey.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 610-625
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1741426
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Author-Name: Xu Zhang
Author-X-Name-First: Xu
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang
Author-Name: Robert C. Kloosterman
Author-X-Name-First: Robert C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kloosterman
Author-Name: Yajuan Li
Author-X-Name-First: Yajuan
Author-X-Name-Last: Li
Title: ‘Stars’ and places: exploring the spatial organization of media and entertainment industries in China
Abstract: 
 Drawing on an innovative ‘big data’ method, this paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the geography of media and entertainment industries (MEIs) in China, by examining the specific activities that are performed by celebrities, the key actors in these industries. Compared to previous research on cultural and creative industries, which primarily rely on more traditional statistical data, our study demonstrates a new approach to systemically investigate the spatial organization of the dynamic production process in MEIs. The outcomes reveal that activities focusing on the different value segments of MEIs display rather diverse geographical patterns. Depending on the availability and combination of specific local assets, different locations perform varying functions in the production networks of MEIs. Therefore, the agglomeration of MEIs only partially overlaps with the existing urban hierarchy. In addition, celebrities catering to different media and entertainment markets also exhibit distinct activity patterns, indicating a close and reciprocal relationship between the popularity of celebrities, the activities they perform, the platforms that are chosen, and the commercial value that can be generated as a result. This study contributes to our understanding of the complex development patterns and consequences of MEIs in emerging economies.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 626-641
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1751677
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Author-Name: Julius Kob
Author-X-Name-First: Julius
Author-X-Name-Last: Kob
Title: Curating disaster: a way to turn science into action in times of the Corona pandemic
Abstract: 
 To cure Covid-19 on a medical, political, economic, and societal level, there is a need to ‘curate’ between science and politics in such a way that decision-makers and societies can address the practical requirements at hand. This commentary introduces and discusses ‘curating’ as a socio-material practice mediating between science and decision-making. It reflects on the current Covid-19 pandemic and compares ‘curatorial’ aspects here to the field of natural catastrophe risk finance. As both areas try to manage disasters, the space between scientific knowledge and economic and/or political decision-making becomes a particularly important node. By employing a focus on catastrophe simulation modelling, this essay looks at several issues of the natural catastrophe field that may yield ways to deal with epidemic crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic. This commentary suggests putting greater emphasis on (and encourages a research focus on) the ‘curation’ between science and politics to improve decision-making for socio-material disasters.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 642-651
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1782968
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Author-Name: Grahame F. Thompson
Author-X-Name-First: Grahame F.
Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson
Title: Deal or no deal? Some reflections on the ‘Baker-Thompson rule,’ ‘matching,’ and ‘market design’
Abstract: 
 This article raises the issue of why the idea of a ‘deal’ has become so prevalent in the discussion of political matters and policy proposals associated with future economic developments. It does this by linking the deal with several features of market design. Principal amongst these are game theory and matching algorithms. The Barker-Thompson Rule is presented as an example of a particular type of market construction operating in a game theoretic context, while the ‘matching engine’ is explored in a variety of contexts where it is argued to have become a standardized technique indicating to a possible reshaping of the economic terrain more generally. The consequences of these developments and trends are the emergence of a ‘dealing culture’ that threatens to overwhelm other forms of decision-making and consume the policy-making environment with the immediacy of its dealing logic.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 652-662
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1782967
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Title: Correction
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: I-I
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1804656
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Author-Name: Alberto Corsín Jiménez
Author-X-Name-First: Alberto
Author-X-Name-Last: Corsín Jiménez
Title: Introduction
Abstract: 
 The essay offers an introduction to the special issue and further attempts to situate the concept of the prototype within the larger field of an anthropology of prefiguration. I make a particular claim for the rise of ‘prototyping’ as a cultural discourse today, in design, engineering and artistic circles but also among analogous experimental moments in social studies of science and critical theory. I focus in particular on the affordances of the prototype as material culture and sociological theory: prototyping as something that happens to social relationships when one approaches the craft and agency of objects in particular ways. Last, the essay examines the work that prototypes do as figures of suspension and expectation, where they can be seen to function as ‘traps’ for the emergence of compossibility. They offer in this guise a design for contemporary complexity that is at once ‘more than many and less than one’.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 381-398
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.858059
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Author-Name: George Marcus
Author-X-Name-First: George
Author-X-Name-Last: Marcus
Title: Prototyping and Contemporary Anthropological Experiments With Ethnographic Method
Abstract: 
 This paper uses two senses of the concept and practice of ‘prototype’ in its usual industry and design contexts to explore several experimental strategies in the pursuit and production of ethnographic research in its anthropological tradition. It is argued that the latter tradition of research requires new forms that impinge not so much on its established modes of scholarly communication – the article, the monograph – but on how it establishes the conditions of fieldwork in contemporary multi-sited spaces of complex assemblages and big projects through which ethnography operates and defines its objects of study. These forms are conceived as ‘third spaces’, materialized as staged occasions, studios, labs, established alongside the traditional serendipitous path of fieldwork, and involve explicit intellectual partnerships with persons who might otherwise be viewed as facilitators or subjects of research. These third spaces produce prototypes as accessible alternative products of contemporary ethnographic experiments. The author's recent experiments with collaborative research at the World Trade Organization is explored in these terms.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 399-410
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.858061
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Author-Name: Michael Guggenheim
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Guggenheim
Title: From Prototyping to Allotyping
Abstract: 
 The chapter analyses the invention and the form of the discourse on building conversion as one particular instance of redefining what a technology is and how it operates. I describe a shift from expert defined closure to lay based openness and tinkering as a shift from prototyping to allotyping: Since the early 1970s, change of use and building conversion have become a central and fashionable discourse among architects and architectural theorists. Before the 1970s, buildings were understood as technologies, as ‘society made durable’. The notion of building type was central to link a building to a given use. A bank was a bank because architects applied existing templates, prototypes, to turn a building into a bank. In the 1970s, suddenly buildings became flexible – discursively, since building conversion always existed: ‘Building type’ no longer was a meaningful link between a building and its use. A bank should not stay a bank, but become a hotel, a theatre or a flat, in short: an allotype. The chapter elucidate this central shift in thinking about buildings and reflects on the special case of allotyping buildings and how it continues to vex thinking about buildings.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 411-433
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.858060
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Author-Name: Javier Lezaun
Author-X-Name-First: Javier
Author-X-Name-Last: Lezaun
Author-Name: Nerea Calvillo
Author-X-Name-First: Nerea
Author-X-Name-Last: Calvillo
Title: In the Political Laboratory: Kurt Lewin's Atmospheres
Abstract: 
 In a series of groundbreaking studies conducted in the late 1930s at the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station, the émigré German psychologist Kurt Lewin and his graduate student Ronald Lippitt transformed the relationship between social-scientific experimentation and political design. In the controlled, confined space of the laboratory they were able to produce, they claimed, distinct political ‘climates’. Authoritarian, laissez-faire and, most precarious and precious of all, democratic ‘atmospheres’ were the observable effect of subjecting small groups of children to different styles of ‘leadership’ under artificial conditions of work-play. In this essay, we reconstruct the practical set-up that allowed Lewin and Lippitt to render political forms observable and manipulable under experimental conditions. We will analyze the physical configuration and material furnishings of the experimental setting, as well as the self-affected practices of ‘leadership’ that the experimenters deployed in their attempts to change the political valence of groups. The discovery of a set of technical procedures for the realization of localized but tangible forms of democratic life was a startling and welcome discovery in the bleak years of totalitarian ascendancy. We conclude by revisiting the significance of these experiments for our understanding of how the social sciences can generate spaces and situations of political experimentation.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 434-457
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.860045
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Author-Name: James Leach
Author-X-Name-First: James
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Title: Choreographic Objects
Abstract: 
 Several successful contemporary dance companies in Europe are experimenting with new ways of presenting choreography and movement utilising digital media. Here, an analysis is offered of the context in which these innovations are stimulated, focusing on their efforts to demonstrate that contemporary dance is a ‘knowledge-producing’ endeavour. I tie this to the demands of knowledge economies. I then offer an analysis of specific projects and the ‘choreographic objects’ that result from them utilising exchange theory drawn in part from Melanesian anthropology. The resulting analysis of things-in-the-making and things-in-circulation reveals how choreographic objects are shaped by dance practitioners' views of themselves, their interests, and their desire to control perceptions of their practice as well as by the need to find an appropriate mode in which to demonstrate the value of this practice through the transfer of knowledge. The move towards ‘knowledge production’ and towards recasting relationships with audiences are construed as experiments with the form of social relations through new forms of transaction. I come to re-present the digital creations of dance companies as ‘prototype’ forms for relational engagement with audiences and the wider public.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 458-475
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.858058
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Author-Name: Alex Wilkie
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Author-X-Name-Last: Wilkie
Title: Prototyping as Event: Designing the Future of Obesity
Abstract: 
 This paper takes up the notion of event to explore the practice of prototyping in design as a relational process generative of multiple becomings. The paper outlines a case involving a team of user-centred designers as they envision, construct and demonstrate a wearable technology to intervene in public health warnings concerning obesity. The paper examines various co-becomings of users and technology through the course of a two-stage development cycle and employs the heuristic distinction between ‘distal’ and ‘proximal’ users as means to examine the different definitions of obesity occasioned therein. The term ‘inventive risk discourse’ is coined to describe the designers' articulation of the problem space of obesity as a future figuring putative users. Examples of proximal users are then discussed as users involved in the various enactments of the prototype system as it is programmed and assembled in the present. The implications of this are discussed in terms of the specific definitions of obesity that concresce around particular prototype–user assemblages as well as indicators of overspill that often exceed normative accounts. In conclusion, I consider the case as a rough cosmopolitical sketch where designers engage obesity science as inventive problem making where multiple empirical variations of obesity emerge.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 476-492
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.859631
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Author-Name: Alberto Corsín Jiménez
Author-X-Name-First: Alberto Corsín
Author-X-Name-Last: Jiménez
Author-Name: Adolfo Estalella
Author-X-Name-First: Adolfo
Author-X-Name-Last: Estalella
Author-Name: Zoohaus Collective
Author-X-Name-First: Zoohaus
Author-X-Name-Last: Collective
Title: The Interior Design of [Free] Knowledge
Abstract: 
 What would a “free knowledge bank’look like if it were to be designed as an architectural object? The challenge was posed by El Ranchito, a curatorial project based at Madrid’s contemporary art centre, Matadero, to the art and architectural collective Zoohaus in 2011. The project aimed to turn into a 3-D model (hereafter known as the Offfficina) a variety of architectural “collective intelligences’ (based on do-it-yourself, retrofitted, community-driven architectural designs and adaptations) that Zoohaus had long been collecting and documenting from locations the world over. This essay tells the story of the making and travails of the Offfficina. It describes the work that Zoohaus has been carrying out in documenting constructive techniques worldwide: their use of diagrams, photographs, videos or digital social media in experimenting with, or improvising new models and forms of architectural representation. Furthermore, it describes the challenges faced in turning such “models’ into “prototypes’: when the experimental form must remain openly recursive to its own re/presentational sources. The paper ends by describing the most radical of such recursive transformations, where the Offfficina was turned into an “ambient’ or atmospheric object, and in the process reimagined (free) knowledge as dimensional piece of interior design
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 493-515
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.859632
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Author-Name: Martha Poon
Author-X-Name-First: Martha
Author-X-Name-Last: Poon
Title: For Financial Certainty, Try Machine Gambling
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 516-523
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.840668
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Author-Name: Kean Birch
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Title: Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 524-526
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.888366
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Author-Name: Martijn Konings
Author-X-Name-First: Martijn
Author-X-Name-Last: Konings
Title: Hoodwinked by Hayek
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 527-531
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.909866
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Author-Name: Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen
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Author-X-Name-Last: Lehtonen
Author-Name: Ine Van Hoyweghen
Author-X-Name-First: Ine
Author-X-Name-Last: Van Hoyweghen
Title: Editorial
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 532-540
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2013.875929
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Title: Editorial Board
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: ebi-ebi
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2014
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2014.984452
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Author-Name: Panos Kompatsiaris
Author-X-Name-First: Panos
Author-X-Name-Last: Kompatsiaris
Author-Name: Evangelos Chrysagis
Author-X-Name-First: Evangelos
Author-X-Name-Last: Chrysagis
Title: Crafting values: economies, ethics and aesthetics of artistic valuation
Abstract: 
 This special issue brings together ethnographic scholarship to explore the interlinking of diverse personal, social and larger institutional forms in and through which artistic value emerges. Rather than being inherent in the formal features of art objects or merely a discursive construct, value as craft signifies an arena in which beliefs, ideologies, and histories interweave with art practices, events, and materialities. The articles included in this issue, then, highlight both the constructed and performative aspects of artistic values through a common focus on ethnography and a shared emphasis on temporality, practice, and institutional forms. Accordingly, art is a process both crafted – composed of judgements and social interaction – and crafting – able to individually or collectively mobilise and enable desiring investments in its capacity as art. The interdisciplinary effort at hand retains the sociological ethos and political implications of social constructionism, while looking at how acts of valuation enable affective, agential and aesthetic responses.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 663-671
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1798803
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Author-Name: Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov
Author-X-Name-First: Nikolai
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Title: Rethinking performativity: ethnographic conceptualism
Abstract: 
 Ethnographic conceptualism takes its cue from conceptual art and uses artistic interventions as an anthropological research tool. The term ‘ethnographic conceptualism’ was coined to sum up the method of the exhibition project Gifts to Soviet Leaders (Kremlin Museum, Moscow 2006) as simultaneously a reflection on the vast and complex economy of public gifts to heads of Soviet state, a distinctly post-Soviet political and cultural artefact, and as a tool for ethnography of post-socialism. This article explores ethnographic conceptualism’s contribution to performativity theory. I look at how it makes visible the tension between what such projects perform and describe. In doing so, I use ethnographic conceptualism as a vantage point to revisit the foundational distinction of performativity theory between the constative and performative statements (Austin). Drawing in this artistic and research method, I redefine the performative, not as a domain or a type of utterance that is distinct from the constative, but as an act of drawing this distinction.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 672-689
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1708779
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Author-Name: Eliot Bates
Author-X-Name-First: Eliot
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Title: Vinyl as event: Record Store Day and the value-vibrant matter nexus
Abstract: 
 Why would anyone purchase expensive, natural resource-intensive, and seemingly obsolete material carriers of music when streaming providers provide unlimited access to over 40 million songs for a small monthly fee? As I will show, we can no longer assume that contemporary interest is driven solely by a collector’s market or because of the audible qualities of the vinyl listening experience, and must attend to the many ways people engage with record objects today – and by extension, the vinyl record as an ontological multiple. Through an analysis of Record Store Day 2015 and affiliated phenomena including YouTube unboxing videos, other social media activity and the Discogs resale market, I will demonstrate that the vinyl record gains value when the lived experience of materiality becomes an event and enables the performance of self in social contexts. As I will show, while certain types of actors have appreciably benefitted from the recent revival of interest in vinyl (e.g. brick and mortar stores, mastering engineers, manufacturing plants, and ancillary service industries), others have not to the same extent (e.g. musicians, independent record labels).
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 690-708
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1668822
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Author-Name: Roger Sansi
Author-X-Name-First: Roger
Author-X-Name-Last: Sansi
Title: The artist and the stone: project, process and value in contemporary art
Abstract: 
 Contemporary art practices are often described as projects or processes. But when can we say that an art project or process is finished? How is it valued? Does it become a product? In this article, I will present a particular artwork, ‘The Artist and the Stone,’ that consisted in taking an artist and a 2 tone stone from Palestine to Barcelona, Spain. Through this example, I will explore the different temporalities of process, project, and product in contemporary art. My argument is that process, project and product are often contradictorily juxtaposed in an ongoing tension that is revelatory of a deeper contradiction between art as a form of value and art as a form of life.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 709-724
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1604401
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Author-Name: Manuela Ciotti
Author-X-Name-First: Manuela
Author-X-Name-Last: Ciotti
Title: The artist Karl Marx and the auctioned god: ‘post-practice’ ethnographies of the art world, impossible collaborations, and renewable anthropologies
Abstract: 
 Drawing upon ethnographic moments recorded at two of the most prominent art world institutions, the Venice Biennale and the auction house Christie's at its New York headquarters, this article reflects on what it means to investigate the global art world ethnographically and interrogates some of the current trends within the anthropology of art. In particular, the article shows the potential of re–focusing the attention on the interconnectedness of art-world actors, institutions and objects in time and space in order to produce expansive narratives on the art world which reflect not only how art is produced in the present and in the past but also its circulation and commerce. Moreover, by challenging the anthropology of art's focus on the anthropologist–artist dyad, their practice and collaborations, the article shows how a renewed engagement with the art world as an ethnographic field site brings about possibilities for a renewal of anthropology itself.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 725-742
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1806445
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Author-Name: Evangelos Chrysagis
Author-X-Name-First: Evangelos
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Title: When means and ends coincide: on the value of DiY
Abstract: 
 This article focuses on the relationship between ‘Do-it-Yourself’ (DiY) music practices and value. Based on anthropological fieldwork conducted in Glasgow between 2010 and 2011, it provides an ethnographic examination of a music collective that started off as an online blog and subsequently evolved into a record label and a live music promoter. The article considers the DiY values that pervaded the collective’s views and practices, as well as how their music activities produced value. I suggest that DiY is a notion that can help us develop a nuanced understanding of ‘value,’ because it embodies the co-existence of different and interpenetrating types of value, spanning the realms of ethics, politics and the economy. That DiY consolidates diverse forms of value further indicates its importance for cultural policy: instead of taking for granted how value is produced and by whom, and how different types of value are related, or accepting a priori the usefulness of ‘value’ as an analytical category, DiY shows that these should rather be objects of ethnographic inquiry.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 743-757
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1646158
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Author-Name: Panos Kompatsiaris
Author-X-Name-First: Panos
Author-X-Name-Last: Kompatsiaris
Title: Curators, words and values: the branding economies of curatorial statements in art biennials
Abstract: 
 This article looks at the so called curatorial statements in global art biennials, that is to say the discourses that independent curators put together so as to interpret, justify, and explain what their exhibitions are about to art professionals, experts and the public. It asks, through which value systems curatorial branding hails and crafts middle-class, educated and self-reflective lifestyles and publics with high cultural and often symbolic capital? I will be arguing that these statements constitute a form of writing genre that follows recurring linguistic patterns, involving strategic gestures of negating dominant culture, refusing idiosyncratic straw-man narratives and blending expert with populist vocabularies. While seemingly written by socially engaged and critical ‘auteurs', these gestures of curatorial self-presentation can be read as tools for producing surplus value in line with creative economy's celebration of uniqueness, difference and unconventionality. I analyze several statements from recent large scale biennials in terms of the binary oppositions they fabricate, the both mass and specialized audiences they address and the confessional, self-reflective politics they employ. The writing and reading of these statements correspond to forms of acquired cultural capital, for instance through education or through the experience of belonging in art milieus. Contemporary biennials thus remediate the arena of cultural distinction as the ‘cultivated’ in these settings are not expected to be out-and-above-of-society experts similarly to the modern art of the past but amateur polymaths and cultural omnivores who are able to discover uniqueness and unconventionality within the total realm of cultural production.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 758-771
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1716825
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Author-Name: Janet Roitman
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Author-Name: Sara Angeli Aguiton
Author-X-Name-First: Sara
Author-X-Name-Last: Angeli Aguiton
Author-Name: Lise Cornilleau
Author-X-Name-First: Lise
Author-X-Name-Last: Cornilleau
Author-Name: Lydie Cabane
Author-X-Name-First: Lydie
Author-X-Name-Last: Cabane
Title: Anti-Crisis: thinking with and against crisis excerpt from interview with Janet Roitman
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 772-778
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1807388
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Author-X-Name-First: David Charles
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Title: Waiting on Retirement: Aging and Economic Insecurity in Low-Wage Work
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 779-782
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1818604
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Title: Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 782-785
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1824936
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Title: Doing economics otherwise, from one crisis to the next
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 1-8
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1846594
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Author-Name: Yupei Zhao
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Author-Name: Zhongxuan Lin
Author-X-Name-First: Zhongxuan
Author-X-Name-Last: Lin
Title: Umbrella platform of Tencent eSports industry in China
Abstract: 
 China has embarked on a radical transformation of its online and mobile games industry since its government announced its ambition to be a global sporting power. This study investigates Chinese electronic sports (eSports) in the context of platform governance and platform capitalism, through a case study of the platformization of Tencent, one of China’s largest media conglomerates. We employ a boundary analysis of platform documentation, a document analysis of policies, financial data, and ethnographic interviews to examine the interactivity and flow of power arising from direct state control and the processes of commercialization and professionalization. To support our proposal that the state and corporations, while genetically different, are mutually constitutive, we explore concepts of the platformization of infrastructures and infrastructuralization of platforms. This study proposes that the Chinese eSports industry has an umbrella-like structure and challenges the assumption that China is an authoritarian system with a one-size-fits-all policy. Our results imply that games industry professionals invite funding bodies to work jointly with government to develop alternatives for the eSports industry. Meanwhile, we show how Tencent utilizes its expansion of capital fluidity and data-driven multidimensionality, moving toward an ecosystem of platform dependency, organizational homogenization, and deep power asymmetries.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 9-25
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1788625
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Author-Name: Suzanne Reimer
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Author-Name: Philip Pinch
Author-X-Name-First: Philip
Author-X-Name-Last: Pinch
Title: Sites of qualification: the motorcycle rider airbag and the production of safety
Abstract: 
 The paper mobilises the distinctive notion of ‘sites of qualification’ as a means of providing an expansive understanding of how innovative products are designed, produced and brought to consumer markets. We focus on the development of a new safety product for motorcyclists, the rider airbag, in which inflatable body protection is either incorporated into, or worn underneath, textile jackets and leather suits. The paper follows the airbag’s trajectory across a range of different sites, including lead firms and their territorial settings; MotoGP racetracks, mobile laboratories and professional riders; courts of law; and showroom and archive locations. The paper’s sites of qualification approach expands understandings of innovation by constructing a dialogue between two sets of literatures: actor-network approaches to the qualification of products; and narratives which understand economic innovation as emerging through clusters of agents and firms within industrial districts. The conclusion emphasises that sites of qualification are integral to the ways in which technical products such as the rider airbag are made social.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 26-40
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1788624
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Author-Name: Giulia Dal Maso
Author-X-Name-First: Giulia Dal
Author-X-Name-Last: Maso
Title: The precarious Chinese financial ecology of expertise: discontent in the mix
Abstract: 
 By describing features of Chinese financialisation through en masse stock market trading, the article concerns the development of a Chinese financial ecology of expertise. This indicates a new precarious knowledge regime in which the relationship between the state and the financial subjects it fosters is increasingly defined through financial terms. It argues that the Chinese financialisation should be investigated alongside the state's project directed at financialising human capital and encouraging stock trading as a reaction to an increasingly contractualised labour market and vanishing welfare state. By observing investing strategies of both formally trained expert investors and untrained investors, it emerges how the preeminence of investing activities in the market risks exceeding that of waged labour. The Chinese stock market becomes a site to observe not only the reworking of the relationship between money and wages in China, but also the formation of a financialised redistributive regime in which the state's legitimacy becomes increasingly dependent on its capacity to jiushi—rescue the market in times of crisis.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 41-53
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
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Author-Name: Anna Stanley
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Title: Risk management and the logic of elimination
Abstract: 
 This intervention is premised on the observation that differentiated and relational exposure and protection are fundamental to the political economy of settler colonialism in Canada. These orderings map directly onto a value logic that privileges the life of capital above all else, and orchestrates the voluntary and involuntary sacrifice of value to the national economy. Herein, the value of Indigenous life is continually metered out (and in various ways) in relation to the valued life of capital. I argue that ‘risk management’ – by which I mean the variety of techniques and practices that order and organize exposure to (and protection from) harm – is vital to the political economy of settler colonialism in Canada because of how it normalizes colonial violence. To support my argument I make three observations about ‘risk management’ anchored in three ‘exposure scenarios’ drawn from my research in the mining sector: (1) risk management is an intervention analogous to securitization; (2) risk management is powerful because it makes social relations fungible; and (3) risk management is a value logic consistent with settler governmentality and the logic of elimination.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 54-69
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Volume: 14
Year: 2021
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Author-Name: Mario Schmidt
Author-X-Name-First: Mario
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Title: Incommensurate abstractions and the (re)quantification of monetary amounts: how Western Kenyans measure and are measured in a behavioral economic experiment
Abstract: 
 Revolving around a behavioral economic experiment on temporal discounting conducted in collaboration with a behavioral economist in a Western Kenyan village, this paper excavates a specific type of (re)quantification. The participants of our experiment translated monetary amounts into units of what locally constitutes a satisfying meal. This ‘incommensurate abstraction’ is interpreted as being grounded in a disentangling of money’s numerical character from its potential of abstraction which results in a methodological impasse. Facing the loss of the stabilizing power of an incremental numerical system that allegedly enables and facilitates the commensuration and comparability of monetary amounts, we could no longer control the experiment and had to resort to innovative practices of ‘cooking data’ which, ultimately, were doomed to fail.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 70-86
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
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Author-Name: Tom McDonald
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Author-X-Name-Last: McDonald
Author-Name: Li Dan
Author-X-Name-First: Li
Author-X-Name-Last: Dan
Title: Alipay’s ‘Ant Credit Pay’ meets China’s factory workers: the depersonalisation and re-personalisation of online lending
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 Scholarly accounts of the global rise of statistical credit scoring technologies have tended to portray these automated, digitised systems as supplanting human involvement in lending. This paper examines Chinese migrant factory workers’ encounters with Ant Credit Pay, Alipay’s novel consumer credit facility (which utilises the Zhima Credit scoring system). Drawing on ethnographic data, we document how workers come to understand Ant Credit Pay through the depersonalising and re-personalising processes they associate with it. Workers prefer its depersonalised mode of lending over borrowing from banks, friends, or family. However, they nonetheless also attempt to re-personalise Ant Credit Pay through propagating the belief that human-style logics underlie its scoring mechanisms. This becomes evidenced through workers’ integration of the platform into their personal spending practices, alongside their portrayal of charismatic Alipay founder Jack Ma as the orchestrator of the platform’s novel approach to lending. We argue that acknowledging Ant Credit Pay’s consolidation of depersonalising and re-personalising qualities necessitates the productive analysis of digital credit as a human-machine assemblage. Furthermore, this financial object – and workers’ engagement with it – is generative of a distinctive personhood that concretizes China’s ongoing social transformation, while also carrying implications for understanding current global trends towards the digitisation of credit.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 87-100
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
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Author-Name: Johan Nilsson
Author-X-Name-First: Johan
Author-X-Name-Last: Nilsson
Title: Shaping epistemic distance: producing and withholding knowledge in market research
Abstract: 
 This article explores the notion of ‘epistemic distances,’ which are operationalised by acts of showing as well as omitting. It is investigated through practices of market research where researchers aim to overcome a perceived lack or absence of market knowledge. However, such work relies on keeping clients and respondents away from many details of how the research is undertaken. Based on anthropological fieldwork, this article inquires into how the staff members of a market research firm limit what their clients and respondents know. Such study of the role of secrecy and non-knowledge in commissioned knowledge production takes its cue from the anthropology of secrecy and the agnotological study of ignorance. Further, the article draws on spatial imaginaries in constructivist market studies as well as the study of the role of distance and difference in understanding in science and technology studies. The text contributes to the understanding of knowledge making by showing how market research features epistemic as well as relational concerns. These are handled through the active managing of epistemic distances by shaping what involved actors know. The gap between current and desired knowledge is sometimes met only by maintaining distance.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 101-116
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 1
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Author-Name: Dimitris Soudias
Author-X-Name-First: Dimitris
Author-X-Name-Last: Soudias
Title: Nine Lives of Neoliberalism
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 117-121
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 01
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Author-Name: Ting-Fai Yu
Author-X-Name-First: Ting-Fai
Author-X-Name-Last: Yu
Title: Bubbles and Machines: Gender, Information and Financial Crises
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 121-123
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 01
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Author-Name: Juan M. del Nido
Author-X-Name-First: Juan M.
Author-X-Name-Last: del Nido
Title: Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 123-125
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 01
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Title: Correction
Abstract: 
 CorrectionArticle title: The precarious Chinese financial ecology of expertise: discontent in the mixAuthors: Giulia Dal MasoJournal: Journal of Cultural EconomyDOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1751676When the above article was first published online, the following errors in the author list were committed:• The citation “AUTHOR 2015” and “AUTHOR 2019” (in text) should be “Dal Maso 2015”, and “Dal Maso 2019”.• The references below are missing and should be added in the reference list:Dal Maso, G. (2015). The financialization rush: responding to precarious labor and social security by investing in the Chinese stock market. South Atlantic Quarterly, 114(1), 47-64.Dal Maso, G. (2019). The Financial Crisis and a Crisis of Expertise: A Chinese Genealogy of Neoliberalism. Historical Materialism, 27(4), 67-98.These have now been corrected online.
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Author-Name: Zsuzsanna Vargha
Author-X-Name-First: Zsuzsanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Vargha
Author-Name: Léna Pellandini-Simányi
Author-X-Name-First: Léna
Author-X-Name-Last: Pellandini-Simányi
Title: Debt trails: following relations of debt across borrowers, organizations, and states
Abstract: 
 We introduce the concept of 'debt trails', a methodological and conceptual term to study debt relations across different sites and over time. Recent theories in the interdisciplinary Social Studies of Finance, political economy and economic and human geography have theorised debt in relational terms, although with a distinct and often disconnected theoretical and empirical focus. We propose debt trails to transcend and bridge these areas. Methodologically, debt trails trace the concrete ways in which debt relations are created. Conceptually, debt trails suggest, first, that instead of connecting existing entities, sites and actors themselves are co-constituted through debt relations. Second, debt trails reveal debt as a temporal construct, not as a Maussian obligation, but as a market and policy object designed, marketed, managed and lived with over time. Third, debt trails follow the spatial passage of debt, geographically but also across multiple analytical sites, often market interfaces, through which debt and the entities it relates become concrete. Finally, we discuss the importance of reflexivity and the power aspects of these trails. We then showcase examples where the creation and iterations of debt concretized distinct entities, which cut across conventional categories of borrowers, organizations and states.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 127-138
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 03
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Author-Name: Orsi Husz
Author-X-Name-First: Orsi
Author-X-Name-Last: Husz
Title: Money cards and identity cards: De-vicing consumer credit in post-war Sweden
Abstract: 
 This article has a twofold ambition. First, exploring the peculiar Swedish case, it contributes to the international history of credit cards dominated by the American narrative. Early adaptation of new banking technologies was in Sweden combined with negative general attitudes towards consumer credit. Although introduced early in a European comparison, credit cards needed to be reconceptualised, reshaped, and renamed to be accepted. Second, the paper’s contribution to the study of financial products and their intertwining with values, affects, and the rhythm of the everyday is that it reveals the role of de-vicing which refers to the strategies conducted by card issuers while dealing with the moral resistance. Marketers exploited the non-credit properties of the card in order to spread its use into the everyday practices of consumers. The card itself was turned into a device for de-vicing – destigmatising – consumer credit. By looking at the technical and cultural arrangements built into the card, I unpack the workings of two de-vicing strategies that reconfigured cards (1) as modern money and (2) as membership/identity cards. The Swedish example reveals how plastic cards were reshaped in the forcefield between money and identity and became instrumental in reorganising moralities of debt.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 139-158
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Samuel Kirwan
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Kirwan
Title: Between a knock at the door and a knock to your score: re-thinking ‘governing through debt’ through the hopeful ‘imaginaries’ of UK debtors
Abstract: 
 This paper draws upon research in the UK debt advice sector to consider the role played by the credit referencing sector in shaping how UK society is ‘governed by debt.’ In response to existing literature within cultural economy on the ‘governmentality of the credit file,’ the paper draws upon two images of the ‘debt trails’ concept to foreground the hopeful futures, shaped by and mediated through relationships with intimate others, that are conjured and articulated by debtors. It describes in this respect two distinct ‘imaginaries’ that take hold in debtors’ speculative practices; that of a stable household anchored in a strong or improved credit file, and that of a household that is able to manage the ‘hard edges’ of ‘priority’ debt enforcement. While the latter marks a distinct limit for the ‘power’ located in the credit referencing sector, the paper finishes by noting how changes in income and household budgets are re-shaping this speculative landscape.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 159-175
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Felipe González-López
Author-X-Name-First: Felipe
Author-X-Name-Last: González-López
Title: The financialization of social policy and the politicization of student debt in Chile
Abstract: 
 The financialization literature focuses on how people become docile neoliberal subjects and pays less attention to debt resistance. This article focuses on this less explored dimension. The article draws on the case of Chile to explore the way in which the financialization of higher education leads to the politicization of debt. It makes the case that social mobilization around student debt is a late stage in a succession of policy and political conflicts. These, moreover, arise from the fact that the financialization of social policy implies the reconciliation of three seemingly contradictory goals: the reach of fiscal responsibility and economic efficiency, the fulfillment of policy goals, and the management of the political consequences of imposing a debt-burden to citizens that are constituents. The case shows that, as legislators and policymakers insist on tackling these dilemmas favoring market mechanisms, e.g. the privatization of student debt, massive and deregulated extension of credit, they create the conditions for a ‘student debt crisis’ to arise. However, the extent to which such crisis may trigger the rise of social movements of debtors, depends on factors such as existing conceptions about debt and social rights, institutional incentives, and the existence of political organizations.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 176-193
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 03
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Author-Name: Jen Snowball
Author-X-Name-First: Jen
Author-X-Name-Last: Snowball
Author-Name: Aviwe Mapuma
Author-X-Name-First: Aviwe
Author-X-Name-Last: Mapuma
Title: Creative industries micro-enterprises and informality: a case study of the Shweshwe sewing industry in South Africa
Abstract: 
 The Cultural and Creative Industries have great potential for providing employment and economic development, as has been demonstrated by a number of international studies. However, cultural firms tend to be small and employment is precarious, with a high level of informality and freelance work. This study investigates the characteristics of micro-enterprises who sew bespoke garments for individual customers using a particular South African textile, called Shweshwe. Findings show that the informality of the businesses does not have a statistically significant impact on turnover, when controlling for other factors, such as the education level of the owner. This suggests that the informal business model may be a deliberate, rational choice for firm owners working in a project-based cultural sector, rather than a survivalist strategy of last resort. Employment creation is, however, greater for those micro-enterprises operating in the formal sector, suggesting that there may still be benefits to formality for some firms.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 194-208
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Alfredo Macías Vázquez
Author-X-Name-First: Alfredo Macías
Author-X-Name-Last: Vázquez
Author-Name: Gonzalo Saavedra Gallo
Author-X-Name-First: Gonzalo Saavedra
Author-X-Name-Last: Gallo
Title: Sustainability and immaterial commons: rentier appropriation and intermediation in the artisanal fishing space of southern Chile
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 Starting from a theoretical model of the generation of value in a knowledge-based economy, we explore the local management of immaterial resources in a post-industrial economy. To address this question, we analyse the management of immaterial commons in four representative locations of the artisanal fishing space of southern Chile, specifically the production of two marine species: sea urchins and the local mussel known as chorito. In this analysis, we observe two patterns through which global and/or local elites co-opt the symbolic value generated by local communities. In both cases, commercial intermediation operates as the basic conditioner of the whole process. On the one hand, the industrial and commercial links of the sea urchin production value chain generate a symbolic value through reference to the association established by global consumers with the landscape of Patagonia. On the other, in the case of choritos there is a symbolic substitution which implies the transformation or annulment of the local nature of immaterial resources in the minds of the same consumers. Both dynamics constitute an obliteration of the differentiation of the product, leading to a common result: over-exploitation of the natural resource and degradation of the environment.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 209-224
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1818600
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Author-Name: David M. Batt
Author-X-Name-First: David M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Batt
Title: Depoliticisation, technical discourse, and paper-money: a case study in the bank restriction period
Abstract: 
 This article looks at the controversy which emerged between the Bank of England and a number of external actors over various proposals to modify the printing of the Bank’s paper-money during the Bank restriction period of 1797–1821. As a result of this controversy, the debate over the best method to prevent the forgery of the Bank’s paper-money became increasingly technical and specialised over the Restriction period. I argue that, as a result of the growing technical nature of the controversy that emerged, the problem of the forgery of the Bank’s paper-money became depoliticised – separated from the controversial political and social context that attended the widespread introduction of paper-money in early nineteenth-century British society.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 225-239
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1812420
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Author-Name: Jack Webster
Author-X-Name-First: Jack
Author-X-Name-Last: Webster
Title: From selling songs to engineering experiences: exploring the competitive strategies of music streaming platforms
Abstract: 
 Economic, cultural, social, and political life is being increasingly shaped by digital platforms including social networking sites (Facebook), streaming services (Netflix) and sharing platforms (AirBnB). While social scientists have tracked the rapid emergence of platforms and developed useful conceptualisations about what they are and how they operate, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the nature of platform competition or the experiences of users. To address these gaps, this paper focuses on the illustrative case of recorded music, where platforms, including Spotify and Apple Music, face intense competition due to similarities in price and content. Drawing on 42 semi-structured interviews, 20 app ‘walk-alongs’ with Spotify users and an analysis of 120 documents (industry reports, trade magazines, press releases and news articles), it demonstrates how the basis of competition has shifted from content, price and curation to the engineering of compelling experiences that harness the unique and interconnected affordances of platformisation. The paper nuances our understanding of the dynamic and contingent nature of platforms, the processes of datafication and curation underpinning their interventions in markets and everyday life, the geographies of these virtual distribution and consumption channels, and the ways in which users imagine, value, and experience music streaming platforms.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 240-257
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1819374
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Author-Name: Kathleen F. Oswald
Author-X-Name-First: Kathleen F.
Author-X-Name-Last: Oswald
Title: The Smart City in a Digital World
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 258-261
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1840420
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Author-Name: Jian Xiao
Author-X-Name-First: Jian
Author-X-Name-Last: Xiao
Title: On Trend: The Business of Forecasting the Future
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 261-263
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1846595
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Author-Name: Amy Bride
Author-X-Name-First: Amy
Author-X-Name-Last: Bride
Title: Black Market: The Slave’s Value in National Culture after 1865
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 263-266
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1850505
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Author-Name: Marek Mikuš
Author-X-Name-First: Marek
Author-X-Name-Last: Mikuš
Title: Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 266-269
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1840419
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Author-Name: Linsey McGoey
Author-X-Name-First: Linsey
Author-X-Name-Last: McGoey
Title: Oracular power and the architects of the future
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 368-371
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1895282
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Author-Name: Veit Braun
Author-X-Name-First: Veit
Author-X-Name-Last: Braun
Title: Holding on to and letting go of seed: quasi-commodities and the passage of property
Abstract: 
 This paper analyses the reframing of German seed as a market good. In the late nineteenth century, seed was sold on dedicated transregional markets for the first time. These emerging seed markets faced several problems, among them unpredictability, ill-adapted products, and the proliferation of reproduced seed on the market, which made it difficult for breeders to alienate their product and for farmers to appropriate it. In this article, I explore how seed was turned into a ‘quasi-commodity,’ a market good not fully alienated yet completely appropriated. Highlighting the challenge that seed posed for the passage of property in market transactions, the article seeks to answer what is wrong with the current excess of property rights in markets for consumer goods.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 306-318
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1824934
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Author-Name: Kristin Asdal
Author-X-Name-First: Kristin
Author-X-Name-Last: Asdal
Author-Name: Béatrice Cointe
Author-X-Name-First: Béatrice
Author-X-Name-Last: Cointe
Title: Experiments in co-modification: a relational take on the becoming of commodities and the making of market value
Abstract: 
 Social studies of science have for many years analyzed and demonstrated the key role of experiments to science and the making of facts. But what is the role of experiments in market work? And what, if anything, can we learn from them about markets and commodities? It is perhaps tempting to say that we can learn very little. This paper investigates a series of market research experiments investigating consumers' valuations of farmed fish, and these are almost comical in their painstaking attention to mundane details. However, when looked into closely, they provide key insights into commodification processes and the scholarly literature to understand them. Most importantly, their analysis allows us to grasp how commodities do not simply emerge as the outcome of a one way process directed towards the market, but through a relational process that jointly works with and acts upon things and people, markets and production. The paper works with the notion of co-modification to trace and stay close to these relational processes. In doing this the paper simultaneously strives for an approach that is not framed by the dominant conceptual distinction between production and market, but instead directed towards the materiality and activeness of the things exchanged. The notion of co-modification emphasises that there is more to market that the human hand. The paper shows that it can also be used in a stronger sense to suggest that commodification is a process where things, people, production methods and markets are actively modifying one another.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 280-292
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1846592
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Author-Name: Saskia Brill
Author-X-Name-First: Saskia
Author-X-Name-Last: Brill
Title: A story of its own: creating singular gift-commodities for voluntary carbon markets
Abstract: 
 Carbon offsets were designed to be a universal good for a global market, tradable with any form of carbon emission anywhere in the world. This paper shows that emission rights, designed as perfect commodities, do not pass their envisioned markets all too easily. After multiple market failures, producers and traders needed to add something to their offsets that define their value by exceeding the mere storage of carbon in trees or soil: a story. In voluntary markets, stories create a close relation between the good, its context of origin as well as the customer's context. By doing so, they juggle carbon offset through complex entanglements of value creation, modes of exchange, measurement practices and market demand. Carbon credits do not only take on a very singular nature but carry many characteristics of gifts at the same time. This paper thus aims to follow carbon offsets in and between their economic forms: commodities, singularities and gifts. This will be done by closely looking at the role of stories and how formatting processes, as well as the formation of goods are created and reflected in them at the same time.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 332-343
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1864448
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Author-Name: Pierre Delvenne
Author-X-Name-First: Pierre
Author-X-Name-Last: Delvenne
Title: Suspended commodification: assetization and the politics of silobolsa in Argentine soybean agriculture
Abstract: 
 Based on a rich empirical description of processes of soybean commodification in Argentina, the article puts a neglected technological device at the centre of the analysis: ‘silobolsas,’ allowing farmers to conserve their harvest in plastic bags with specific properties. Storing soybeans in ‘silobolsas’ opens up the possibility of (precariously) preserving their value or holding up commercial exchanges waiting for better conditions. The politics of silobolsa exhibits that commodities and assets nestle beside each other, but also incorporate each other's characteristics, change into each other, or confuse different actors about their commodity-versus-asset identities. Three particular contributions to the existing literature on commodities can be singled out: first, immobility can be as illuminating as movement to make sense of the sociotechnical context of commodities. Second, the lack of exchange is a form of politics that participates in the social practices configuring the value of commodities. Third, complex temporal processes of commodification and assetization can significantly mark the social life of the same ‘thing.’ These findings speak to the most recent mutations of contemporary capitalism that is itself increasingly characterized by the (re)configuration of a range of things as assets or capitalized property.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 319-331
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1761429
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Author-Name: Birke Otto
Author-X-Name-First: Birke
Author-X-Name-Last: Otto
Title: The power to ignore and the power to hide
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 361-363
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1861967
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Author-Name: Claudia Aradau
Author-X-Name-First: Claudia
Author-X-Name-Last: Aradau
Title: The will to ignorance
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 359-361
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1882536
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Author-Name: Scott Frickel
Author-X-Name-First: Scott
Author-X-Name-Last: Frickel
Title: The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 357-359
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1837202
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Author-Name: Veit Braun
Author-X-Name-First: Veit
Author-X-Name-Last: Braun
Author-Name: Saskia Brill
Author-X-Name-First: Saskia
Author-X-Name-Last: Brill
Author-Name: Alexander Dobeson
Author-X-Name-First: Alexander
Author-X-Name-Last: Dobeson
Title: The mutability of economic things
Abstract: 
 How can we understand the relations between economic things and different forms of exchange – commodities, assets, gifts and singularities – in the contemporary economy? The decline of industrial capitalism and the emergence of new types of intangible valuables challenge our understanding of what economic life is about. Analysing economies through one dominant form of exchange risks overlooking the interplay between different types of valuables, their materiality and interactions that form the basis of value creation and exchange. In contrast, this special issue highlights the mutability of things – their capacity to take on and abandon different forms – as a precondition for economic activity. Drawing on a variety of empirical case studies of markets for seeds, grains, fish, carbon emissions and cattle, the contributions set out to trace the social biographies of economic things in, between and beyond multiple economic forms. We argue that it is the very ability of economic things to shift in and out of particular forms of exchange that enables the complex globalised economies of our time.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 271-279
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1911829
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Author-Name: Alexander Dobeson
Author-X-Name-First: Alexander
Author-X-Name-Last: Dobeson
Title: The politics of value revisited: commodities, assets, and the gifts of nature
Abstract: 
 What links the value and exchange of everyday commodities with the production of new wealth in contemporary capitalism? By taking the reader on an ethnographic stroll through a potlatch-like community festival sponsored by the Icelandic fishing industry, this article sheds light on a new liberal politics of value that is rooted in the redirection of societal wealth through the privatisation of access rights to former common pool resources. While this politics of value has created a new, highly valuable asset class by neatly separating the right to fish from the fish in the sea, it has caused moral outrage and controversy over the ownership of the nation’s most valuable export commodity. To reunite what has been divided, asset-rich companies return the gifts of nature by handing out generous donations of free fish, while valuable fishing rights remain the de facto inalienable assets of societal influence and intangible wealth.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 344-356
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1846589
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Author-Name: Jessica Helen Phoenix
Author-X-Name-First: Jessica Helen
Author-X-Name-Last: Phoenix
Title: Trading with risk: associating bovine Tuberculosis to cattle commodities in risk-based trading
Abstract: 
 The trading of cattle across England poses challenges to the control and eradication of the cattle disease bovine Tuberculosis (bTB). To encourage the consideration of risk in the practice of cattle trading in England, Cattle Health Certification Standards (CHeCS) were introduced in 2016 to associate cattle commodities with bTB. However, CHeCS has only been adopted by approximately 60 farmers and there is no evidence to suggest it is encouraging risk-based trading of cattle. In this article, I use three empirical cases to analyse how disease risk was calculated, how it was framed through CHeCS as a quantifiable quality that could be associated with cattle, and how it failed to be taken up in the market. Drawing on the work of Callon and others, I conceive this failure to be an overflow of the efforts of qualculation. Building on their work, I argue that attaching a quality to a commodity requires effort, is an unstable process and is ultimately prone to failure.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 293-305
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1824933
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Author-Name: Steve Fuller
Author-X-Name-First: Steve
Author-X-Name-Last: Fuller
Title: Knowing The Unknowers
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 364-367
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1879214
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Author-Name: Jill A. Fisher
Author-X-Name-First: Jill A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Fisher
Author-Name: Megan M. Wood
Author-X-Name-First: Megan M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Wood
Author-Name: Torin Monahan
Author-X-Name-First: Torin
Author-X-Name-Last: Monahan
Title: Speculating on precarious income: finance cultures and the risky strategies of healthy volunteers in clinical drug trials
Abstract: 
 Speculation has become a normalized occupational strategy and quotidian economic rationality that extends throughout society. Although there are many contemporary articulations of speculation, this article focuses on contract labor as a domain of financialization. Seen through this lens, contract labor can be understood as a speculative investment strategy wherein individuals leverage whatever assets they have at their disposal – savings, time, bodily health – to capture economic advantages. In particular, we explore the speculative practices of healthy individuals who enroll in pharmaceutical drug trials as their primary or critical source of income. Mobilizing speculative logics to maximize the money they can earn from their clinical trial participation, these contract workers employ what we term a future-income-over-immediate-pay calculus. This speculative calculus valorizes fictional projections of significant long-term future income over present financial opportunities. For the economically precarious individuals in our study, we argue that rather than effectively increasing their income, speculation on contract work serves a compensatory function, providing an important – but ultimately inadequate – sense of control over market conditions that thrive upon workers’ economic insecurity.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 464-484
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1850504
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Author-Name: Daniel Carter
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Carter
Author-Name: Elizabeth K. Eger
Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Eger
Title: Visibility and vulnerability in online marketing practices
Abstract: 
 Due to their perceived role in making content visible, engagement metrics are core concerns for people and businesses that generate revenue on social media platforms. While scholars have focused on the ways that social media users manipulate their own visibility, we investigate not only how social media users’ understandings of metrics shape the content they produce but also how this content influences the communication of users who interact with it. Based on a logistic regression analysis of 985 Facebook posts made to a group that distributes information about free products, we find that tactics commonly thought to increase engagement metrics also increased the probability that users would reveal personal information, identities and experiences, including detailed descriptions of debt, unemployment and homelessness. We argue that the information systems, compensation structures, and cultural norms currently surrounding online communication award visibility to those who make others visible in ways that potentially increase vulnerability.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 373-387
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1879212
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Author-Name: Nazli Azergun
Author-X-Name-First: Nazli
Author-X-Name-Last: Azergun
Title: The Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion: Mobile Money, Gendered Walls
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 509-512
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1879213
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Author-Name: José Ossandón
Author-X-Name-First: José
Author-X-Name-Last: Ossandón
Title: Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty and contemporary economic sociology
Abstract: 
 This essay takes the 50th anniversary of Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States as an opportunity to revisit this important book. It asks how Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, a book that came out five decades ago as a contribution to development economics, connects to recent debates in economic sociology and how this can help us think about what economic sociology does not attempt to do anymore.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 498-505
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1891952
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Author-Name: Kristian Bondo Hansen
Author-X-Name-First: Kristian Bondo
Author-X-Name-Last: Hansen
Title: Financial contagion: problems of proximity and connectivity in financial markets
Abstract: 
 Financial contagion is often defined as the propagation of shocks among actors in markets, while excessive correlation and interconnectivity of markets, actors or investment strategies are seen as reasons for its spread. In this article, I examine uses of the concept of contagion across academic, practical and popular discourses on financial markets and speculation from the late nineteenth century through the first couple of decades of the twentieth: During this historical period the concept was frequently used about forms of allegedly irrational behaviour in financial markets. I argue that ‘contagion’ is used descriptively to capture behaviour and events that escape rational economic explanation and, more importantly, highlights problems of proximity and connectivity in financial markets. While the proximity and connectivity of actors enables market efficiency, they simultaneously increase the risk of contagion. In the latter part of the article, I use a contemporary example of liquidity contagion in model-driven financial investing – the so-called Quant Meltdown of August 2007 – to emphasise that problems of proximity and connectivity, described as instances of contagion, remain pertinent challenges for market actors to deal with.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 388-402
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1879211
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Author-Name: Elizabeth Ferry
Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferry
Title: ‘Deep in the earth a shining substance:’ sequestration and display in gold mining and central banks
Abstract: 
 In this essay, I consider the ways in which gold acts and is perceived as a reserve in the El Cubo mine in Guanajuato, Mexico, and in some European central banks. Following Gustav Peebles’ essay ‘Rehabilitating the Hoard’ (2014), I consider the ways in which gold’s movement from mine to vault helps to express a dialectic of sequestration and display that enables its operation as hoard, providing for struggles over sovereignty, stewardship, and the global transfer of value from South to North.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 416-434
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1818603
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Author-Name: Başak Saraç-Lesavre
Author-X-Name-First: Başak
Author-X-Name-Last: Saraç-Lesavre
Title: Deep time financing? ‘Generational' responsibilities and the problem of rendez-vous in the U.S. nuclear waste programme
Abstract: 
 Responsibilities across generations are at the forefront of policy agenda; whether this is climate change, remains of the nuclear age, care for the vulnerable, plastics pollution, public debt, or pension schemes. This provokes scholarly debates about where the moral cursor of action should be set in time to be qualified as ‘responsible’. Instead of adopting a normative stance, based on archival material, this paper examines how different relevant actors engage in time-making and grapple with complex and -quite peculiar- temporalities in their efforts to assign financial responsibilities associated with nuclear waste, a material to remain radioactive for a million years. Based on the analysis, the paper proposes a new concept, the problem of rendez-vous, to name the dilemma generated by the attempts to coordinate and synchronize parties, who are to act, or even come to exist, at different moments in time, with potentially conflicting and competing concerns and priorities. It traces the successive resolutions of the problem of rendez-vous that mediated the formulation of a mechanism to finance the U.S. nuclear waste programme (1978–1983). The analysis will be relevant to researchers interested in the temporalities of valuation and in studying how ‘generational’ concerns are construed and accounted for in environmental and financial valuations.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 435-448
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1818601
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Author-Name: Maiju Tanninen
Author-X-Name-First: Maiju
Author-X-Name-Last: Tanninen
Author-Name: Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen
Author-X-Name-First: Turo-Kimmo
Author-X-Name-Last: Lehtonen
Author-Name: Minna Ruckenstein
Author-X-Name-First: Minna
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruckenstein
Title: Tracking lives, forging markets
Abstract: 
 In the insurance industry, digital technologies have been harnessed in pursuit of three goals: personalising services for customers, obtaining information about them and nudging them towards behaviour that diminishes their risks. This article examines two Finnish companies that use self-tracking practices and sensor-generated data in life insurance products. It investigates the knowledges and practices mobilised in a design process that aims to transform the customer relationship from reactive to proactive. Insurers use three main strategies, educating, incentivising and partnering, in striving to align their aims with those of their customers. Instead of confirming narratives of ‘digital disruption’, this study argues that insurance should be understood as a historically specific technology within regulatory constraints and market frictions. The new policies’ most distinctive disruptive feature is the technological mediation of the customer relationship. Critical voices rightly point out that behaviour-based insurance carries the potential for discrimination and dataveillance. Our study shows, however, that critique remains abstract or even hypothetical if it does not consider existing practices and the difficulties that insurers face when implementing their ideas.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 449-463
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1852949
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Author-Name: Allison Truitt
Author-X-Name-First: Allison
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Title: Banking on gold in Vietnam
Abstract: 
 Today central bankers regard gold as an asset but not as money. Does this distinction still hold in a period of financial globalization? This question has taken on great urgency since the 2008 global financial crisis when assets have become more liquid and transferable. In this essay, I examine a series of monetary policies in Vietnam that culminated in commercial banks mobilizing privately held gold, an experimental monetary design I call ‘banking on gold.’ The run-up in the price of gold (2006–2011) made this design ultimately unsustainable. While banking on gold is particular to monetary ecologies in Vietnam, a late socialist country with low rates of banking, this case study illuminates the role of commercial banks in drawing on household assets to create money.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 403-415
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1879210
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Author-Name: Emily Rosamond
Author-X-Name-First: Emily
Author-X-Name-Last: Rosamond
Title: Derivative character investments: social impact bonds as path-changing devices
Abstract: 
 Since 2010, social impact bonds (SIBs) have invited investors to ‘do well by doing good’: injecting capital into social welfare projects, and gaining returns based on successful attainment of impacts. A foregrounded interest in behavioral change typifies much of this market (with SIBs aiming to reduce recidivism, truancy, and addiction, for example). Commentators have situated these behavioral concerns within debates on nudging, ‘caring capitalism’, and the financialization of social welfare. Lesser attention has been paid to how SIB promotional materials transpose behavioral interests into narrative and representational terms. Given their role in fabricating consent for social impact investing, this article questions how promoters narrate SIBs’ construction of behavioral changes as objects of investment, both drawing from and reshaping conventions for representing character in the process. Analyzing three examples, I argue that behavior-focused SIB promotional videos depict societal improvement as ‘improved character’ at scale. By depicting beneficiaries as better able to morally direct their lives, they represent SIBs as path-changing devices, threading more fulfilling life paths through society. They encourage derivative character investments in bundles of bettered behavior, narratively linked to changed life paths at scale.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 485-497
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1850503
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Author-Name: Aaron Van Neste
Author-X-Name-First: Aaron
Author-X-Name-Last: Van Neste
Title: Red Gold: The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 512-515
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1895281
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Author-Name: Emanuel Moss
Author-X-Name-First: Emanuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Moss
Title: Technologies of Speculation: The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 506-509
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1882539
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Author-Name: Jayme Walenta
Author-X-Name-First: Jayme
Author-X-Name-Last: Walenta
Title: The making of the corporate carbon footprint: the politics behind emission scoping
Abstract: 
 The key measurement standard used by the private sector to measure the carbon emission impact of an organization is the corporate carbon footprint. Known as the GHG Protocol, this standard was created in 2001 through a multi-stakeholder collaboration and is now used by thousands of companies globally. This article discusses the origins of the Protocol to better illuminate the politics surrounding the counting and measuring of carbon emissions as environmental intangibles that serve as a critical first step towards corporate climate action. Using archival research and interviews with key stakeholders, I underscore the actors involved and their motivations, which combined led to the development of certain internal accounting technologies, namely the practice of scoping. Scoping was proposed as a way to categorize emissions according to levels of legal ownership and control and avoid ‘double-counting’. Using Chiapello and Engels’ suggesting that integrating scoping was an effort to forge a compatibility between economic growth and climate protection and protect the financial interests of businesses by narrowly enclosing climate mitigation responsibility. To conclude, I discuss the lasting implications to measuring carbon with the corporate carbon footprint for meaningful climate action.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 533-548
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1935297
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Author-Name: Laura Martínez-Jiménez
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: Martínez-Jiménez
Title: Capitalism, Institutions and Social Orders: The Case of Contemporary Spain
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 616-618
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1901768
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Author-Name: Elif Buse Doyuran
Author-X-Name-First: Elif Buse
Author-X-Name-Last: Doyuran
Title: How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 612-615
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1927150
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Author-Name: Eve Chiapello
Author-X-Name-First: Eve
Author-X-Name-Last: Chiapello
Author-Name: Anita Engels
Author-X-Name-First: Anita
Author-X-Name-Last: Engels
Title: The fabrication of environmental intangibles as a questionable response to environmental problems
Abstract: 
 This article proposes a general framework within which to analyze the new environmental intangibles that have been proliferating over the last decades in order to address environmental problems on a market basis. We pay attention to different possible states of environmental intangibles according to the degree of commodification of the impact they are based on. The impact is measured, then commodified and sometimes traded in a secondary market. Each state requires complex socio-technical arrangements. We also differentiate between positive impact, avoided negative impact and negative impact commodities, since each of them appears to relate to the environment problem quite differently. The literature and the articles of this special issue provide numerous case studies. They suggest that the commodification of environmental impacts via the creation of intangibles often fails to deliver the promised environmental improvements. We throw light on one of their aspects: the detachment from the physicality of the impacts, a detachment that is needed to commodify them. This detachment takes different guises. It seems that the greatest flexibility for economic actors comes with a greater detachment, and that this weakens its environmental effectiveness.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 517-532
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1927149
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Author-Name: Stéphanie Barral
Author-X-Name-First: Stéphanie
Author-X-Name-Last: Barral
Title: Conservation, finance, bureaucrats: managing time and space in the production of environmental intangibles
Abstract: 
 In the USA, endangered species are federally protected under the Endangered Species Act. Yet they can be harmed under the condition that impacts on their habitats are mitigated. This is known as the no-net loss principle. To do so, public regulators acknowledge conservation banks and endangered species credit production as the most robust policy instruments, as they allow for ecological restoration ahead of impacts. The aim of this paper is to show how endangered species credits, as ‘environmental intangibles,’ are designed and produced so as to meet two diverging objectives, that is, ensuring permanent conservation and attracting private investors. Permanent conservation is ensured through financial insurances, which tie environmental intangibles to a very tangible asset, land. Therefore, environmental credit-making is not only a matter of scientific measurement; as commodities crafted out of government regulation, environmental intangibles also need to be legally stabilized, including through the use of property and financial tools. This securement entails important production costs that limit investors’ profits. Environmental field-level bureaucrats play a central role in understanding this tension, as they organize trade-offs between finance and conservation temporality so as to ensure the production of environmental intangibles permanently linked to land and ecosystems.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 549-563
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1846593
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Author-Name: Sara Angeli Aguiton
Author-X-Name-First: Sara
Author-X-Name-Last: Angeli Aguiton
Title: A market infrastructure for environmental intangibles: the materiality and challenges of index insurance for agriculture in Senegal
Abstract: 
 In Senegal, various development pilot projects experimented with agricultural index insurance to make drought insurable. These interventions produced ‘rainfall deficit’ as an environmental problem suited for such market-based solutions. Investigating the materiality of this index insurance scheme, I explore the environmental market infrastructure, which produces risk conventions, articulates governance and market requirements, and fuels the promise of cheap, efficient, and automated environmental risk management in the Global South. I show that the production of such risk requires both a selective reduction of the physical reality of drought and the substantial reordering of material activities that organize many actors around rainfall deficit. Meteorological data produced by rain gauges placed in Senegalese fields were a central element in the initial infrastructure of index insurance. However, as reductionist technologies are often prone to failure, this index insurance scheme met many challenges. After documenting the design of this insurance scheme and the obstacles encountered, the paper depicts how actors in charge of its implementation made a shift in the insurance infrastructure from field rain gauges to remote sensing – in order to re-energize index insurance’s expectations.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 580-595
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1846590
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Author-Name: Véra Ehrenstein
Author-X-Name-First: Véra
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Author-Name: Daniel Neyland
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Neyland
Title: Economic under-determination: industrial competitiveness and free allowances in the European carbon market
Abstract: 
 Tackling climate change has provided a key focus for the creation of what the editors of this special issue have termed ‘environmental intangibles.’ This paper focuses on the European Union Emissions Trading System (EUETS), a climate policy that revolves around the issuance and trading of environmental intangibles called emissions allowances. Set up in the mid-2000s, the cap and trade system has experienced many complications. We propose here to explore a particularly contentious issue: the allocation of free allowances. We will see that deciding on allocation rules leads to vivid debates about whether energy-intensive industries in Europe, such as the manufacturing of cement, can remain competitive in the global economy if climate policy is unilaterally enforced. These debates are focused on a phenomenon referred to as the risk of carbon leakage due to loss of competitiveness. Drawing on an empirical enquiry into the workings of policy-making, the paper examines the ways, in which this risk is framed and questioned through lobbying and evidential work. We suggest that the threat to competitiveness posed by the EUETS can neither be established, nor dismissed; a form of under-determination is maintained and carbon leakage as a never-quite-tangible possibility becomes a battleground for protecting European industry over the environment.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 596-611
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1908397
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Author-X-Name-First: j. Siguru
Author-X-Name-Last: Wahutu
Title: Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: How a Continent is Escaping Silicon Valley’s Long Shadow
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 622-625
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1898448
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Author-Name: Juan Ignacio Staricco
Author-X-Name-First: Juan Ignacio
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Title: The Round Table on Responsible Soy’s Landnahme: converting sustainable practices into tradable intangibles to protect the environment
Abstract: 
 The Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS) is a multi-stakeholder organization that has set as its aim to improve the environmental, social and economic conditions of soy production. To do so, it relies on a certification scheme whose standards seek to regulate the practices of producers. Unlike most certifications, however, RTRS allows for the detachment of ‘sustainability’ from physical commodities. In this way, the former is converted into ‘RTRS credits,’ a certificate that attests for the responsible conditions of production. These credits are sold by certified producers and bought by soy consumers who use them to offset the negative impacts of the physical soy they actually handle. This article seeks to identify the tensions that spring from the (a priori paradoxical) strategy of resorting to an intangible in order to preserve the physical environment. The analysis is guided by the concept of Landnahme, which accounts for the processes through which previously non-capitalist spheres of life become colonized by this system’s logic. In the case under examination, two analytically different levels of Landnahme are identified: the economicization of an environmental struggle and the commodification of sustainability. After describing both processes, the paper reflects on the shortcomings faced by RTRS’ approach.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 564-579
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1846591
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Author-Name: Vladimir Mikadze
Author-X-Name-First: Vladimir
Author-X-Name-Last: Mikadze
Title: A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 618-622
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1901767
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Author-Name: Arjen van der Heide
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Author-Name: Dominik Želinský
Author-X-Name-First: Dominik
Author-X-Name-Last: Želinský
Title: ‘Level up your money game’: an analysis of gamification discourse in financial services
Abstract: 
 The idea of gamification, or implementation of game-like elements and mechanisms in non-game contexts, has, throughout the past decade, swept the fields of healthcare and fitness as well as education. More recently, various tech writers, bloggers, and consultants have begun proposing gamification as a solution also in financial services, where gamification has already made headway, for instance, with day trading apps that simplify trading and turn it into a real-time game. In this paper, we examine the emerging discourse of finance gamification and situate it in the expectational dynamics and performative struggles that shape technological developments in finance and the FinTech industry. We argue that the discourse creates positional uncertainty among finance incumbents by linking the notion of a generational wealth transfer to narratives about generational change. Tech writers, consultants and journalists neutralize this uncertainty by propagating a model of human nature, which may be ‘tapped into’ and harnessed with games to rationalize subjects’ financial behavior. However, despite finance gamification’s promises to democratize finance and empower small-time investors by extending access to financial markets, we argue that, in the end, the discourse on finance gamification reinforces the ‘observational boundaries’ between finance and society.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 711-731
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1882537
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Author-Name: Mariana Santos
Author-X-Name-First: Mariana
Author-X-Name-Last: Santos
Title: High net-worth attachments: emotional labour, relational work, and financial subjectivities in private wealth management
Abstract: 
 Private Wealth Management (PWM) is a market providing financial services to High and Ultra High Net-Worth individuals and families. Here, efforts developed by wealth managers to attach those involved with wealth to financial instruments point to how the financial subjectivities of investor and advisor are co-enacted. So far, cultural economic literatures on the subjectivities entailed with financial markets have mostly produced separate accounts focused on financial consumers or professionals. Drawing on interviews with wealth managers in Lisbon, London, Geneva, and Zurich, this article demonstrates how investor and advisor subject positions co-materialize with the (re)reproduction of market attachments. By enriching a cultural economic heuristic of arts of attachment with insights from economic sociology, two main findings are generated. First, stabilizing customers as investors demands transmitting advice as ‘genuine’ care, rather than commercial interest; secondly, cultivating financial attachments within customers’ frames of intimate ties demands re-organizing how monetary and financial forms are imbricated with family (notably kinship) ties. These findings allow stressing how processes of financialization of wealth do not correspond to an intrinsic, natural involvement of U/HNWIs with financial markets and organizations but demand the occupation of financial subject positions that are critically involved with those of their financial services providers.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 750-764
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1952097
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Author-Name: Nick Taylor
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Author-Name: William Davies
Author-X-Name-First: William
Author-X-Name-Last: Davies
Title: The financialization of anti-capitalism? The case of the ‘Financial Independence Retire Early’ community
Abstract: 
 The Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) community consists of individuals each personally dedicated to reducing consumption, so as to build up financial surpluses that are eventually adequate to live off. While it shares certain features in common with other ‘financial independence’ ideologies and self-help communities, one thing that distinguishes it is the emphasis on frugality. Freedom comes to consist not only in independence from the labour market, but also from materialism, consumerism, and consumer debt. At the same time, this freedom is predicated on passive investment in the stock market and reliance on financial techniques for representing the future. Using semi-structured interviews with leading FIRE advocates and analysis of books and blog content, this paper assesses the ambivalent moral economy of FIRE, to understand how and why individuals seek this unusual relationship to capitalism, that pursues the status of rentier through the strategic rejection of materialism.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 694-710
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1891951
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Author-Name: Gökhan Mülayim
Author-X-Name-First: Gökhan
Author-X-Name-Last: Mülayim
Title: Economic Science Fictions
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 791-794
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1952100
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Title: The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand Matory
Abstract: 
 J. Lorand Matory demonstrates that the very idea of the fetish stems from a self-aggrandizing European discourse through which the diverse material practices of non-European civilizations were cast down as childish and primitive. Matory directs the anthropological gaze back on Europeans who made a fetish (an object endowed by the human imagination with supernatural power) of the very idea of the fetish. Beyond simply a critique, his text is also a singularly insightful, thoughtful and provocative engagement with the present-day practitioners of traditional West African religions whose ancestors’ practices were so fatefully misrecognized as mere ‘fetishism’ by Europeans. Matory’s bold revisitation of the fetish will be important for moving the cultural study of economics and the economic study of culture beyond Eurocentric presumptions and teleologies. Though it is not Matory’s stated objective, The Fetish Revisited demands that we fundamentally reevaluate the origin of the tools we use to understand the relationship between culture and economics, between the making of meaning and the creation and exchange of things. Neither solely a critique of Eurocentric thought nor a redemption of Afrocentric thought, it is a call to continue to rethink the economic subject.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 785-789
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1974074
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Author-Name: Hayley James
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Title: Individual pension decision-making in a financialised landscape: a typology of everyday approaches
Abstract: 
 In the UK, individuals are increasingly responsible for achieving an adequate retirement income, yet many people are not saving enough for later life. While we understand some of the structures that lead to differential pensions, we know very little about how people make decisions about their workplace pensions. This is a crucial question as an increasingly financialised landscape means that individuals must make financial decisions about whether to save, how much to save, whether and when to change investments. In this paper, I show that individual approaches to pension provision are not simply determined by structuring variables but are socially and culturally embedded, using qualitative interviews with purposively selected employees from three large private sector organisations. I propose a typology of four approaches to pension decision-making that connect to social and cultural meanings of everyday life, such as life status, identity and relationships. This typology challenges the economic models of rational decision-making that have been used to justify financialisation and highlights the need for later life provision which does not predominantly rely on individuals ability to save, taking into account social and cultural variations in financial behaviours as well as the inherent structural inequalities.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 627-643
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1927146
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Author-Name: Karen Gregory
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Author-Name: Jathan Sadowski
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Author-X-Name-Last: Sadowski
Title: Biopolitical platforms: the perverse virtues of digital labour
Abstract: 
 By mediating everyday activities, social interactions, and economic transactions, digital platforms play an increasingly dominant role in contemporary capitalism. These platforms have excelled at extracting value from assets and labour that have been deemed un(der)productive. While the burgeoning literature on platform capitalism and digital labour has focused on these systems of value extraction, there has been much less attention on how platforms have also undertaken a project of subject formation and thereby capital development. By theorising empirical research with people who work as food delivery workers for Deliveroo, we show how platforms, specifically those that provide services in urban places, encourage, even require, workers to develop a form of human capital based on three perverse virtues that make them more productive, more desirable workers: flexibility, vitality, and legibility. We then analyse the operations and implications of biopolitical platforms—by which we mean platforms that create and administer a biopolitical governance regime in order to cultivate and accumulate capital, both human and data.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 662-674
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1901766
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Author-Name: Stefan Schwarzkopf
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Title: Ten little jurors in the training camp: a genealogy of audience simulation
Abstract: 
 This paper argues that material valuation devices used in consumer research rely on moralized cultural techniques. The paper focuses in detail on one such valuation device, namely audience simulators, and recovers the deeply ascetic and disciplinary nature of this set of techniques. Audience simulation, and in particular the Continuous Response Measurement of media audiences (CRM) allows estimating audience reactions to movies and commercials by simulating the response these offerings would receive in ‘real’ life. The paper traces this simulation method and the material valuation devices it is made up of, namely push-buttons, dials, and polygraphs, back to interwar prediction systems for the success of radio shows. The simulation and valuation practices that perform CRM reveal a genealogy that links audience research to an ethics of religious training. While CRM settings ostensibly aim at audience simulation and programme valuation, they also rely on essentially pre-modern cultural techniques such as monastic pace-setting, congregational judgement, and confession.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 732-749
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1882535
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Correction
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 795-802
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2020.1814003
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Author-Name: David Pinzur
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Title: Infrastructural power: discretion and the dynamics of infrastructure in action
Abstract: 
 This article analyses how a pair of nineteenth century commodity exchanges—in Chicago and New Orleans—shaped the sociotechnical infrastructures underlying two key types of market information—price quotations and crop statistics. Specifically, the paper investigates why these exchanges saw divergent outcomes, each successfully developing one information infrastructure but not the other. Prior scholarship has understood infrastructural development as the result of idiosyncratic, social structural alignments in actors’ resources and desires. This paper, by contrast, examines how such structural elements interacted with practical resources available to exchanges based on their roles within infrastructures. Findings demonstrate that the exchanges gained influence in proportion to their discretion over an infrastructure's everyday operations and the market routines these enabled. This ‘infrastructural power', or lack thereof, interacted with social structural resources in two distinct forms— ‘feedback’ in New Orleans and ‘sacrifice’ in Chicago—providing or denying each exchange the ability to shape infrastructures to its advantage. These findings suggest that analysts should pay closer attention to market dynamics as they relate to ‘infrastructure in action’.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 644-661
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1913212
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Title: Culture is Bad For You
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 790-791
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1974073
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Author-Name: Nina Bandelj
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Author-X-Name-Last: Bandelj
Author-Name: Yader R. Lanuza
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Author-X-Name-Last: Lanuza
Author-Name: Julie S. Kim
Author-X-Name-First: Julie S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim
Title: Gendered Relational Work: How gender shapes money attitudes and expectations of young adults
Abstract: 
 We link the theory of gender performance to the perspective on the social meaning of money and relational work. Using longitudinal Panel Study of Income Dynamics data on young adult women and men, ages 18 through 24 in the US, we examine survey responses to different money-related situations. We question the expected gender-typical meanings of money, offering a more contextual understanding. Specifically, we find that when asked about the present, young women express that they worry more frequently about money than men do. However, when asked about the future – likelihood of having difficulty with financially supporting one’s family and likelihood of having a job that pays well – we find no significant gender differences. Instead, we find expressions of optimism rather than worry by young women and men alike. These results hold when controlling for psychological dispositions, financial obligations, and demographics. Overall, we note the importance of contextually situating ‘gender effects’ in relation to money matters, and call for more sociological research that places gender performance centrally into the analyses of economy and examines gendered relational work across different time orientations.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 765-784
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1952098
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Author-Name: Bomi Kim
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Author-Name: Olav Velthuis
Author-X-Name-First: Olav
Author-X-Name-Last: Velthuis
Title: From reactivity to reputation management: online consumer review systems in the restaurant industry
Abstract: 
 The rapid growth of online consumer review (OCR) systems such as Tripadvisor has greatly reconfigured the operating environment for numerous businesses and organizations. As OCRs become a crucial source of information for consumer decision-making, we pose a twofold question: how do restaurants perceive OCRs and how do they respond to being evaluated on them? In answering this question, we distinguish between different types of organizational responses: staff management, goal setting, operational practices and reputation management. We base our study on in-depth interviews with mid-price restaurants in Amsterdam. Our findings show that reactivity related to staff management, goal setting and operational practices is limited and highly deliberate. Instead, reputational responses are more extensive. That is, restaurants respond to and even appropriate OCRs in order to promote themselves, to signal professionalism, and to limit the reputational damage of negative reviews. On the basis of these findings, we argue that more attention be paid to the agency of evaluated entities and that OCR systems be theorized more as a multisided platform with a hybrid functionality of both valuation and marketing.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 675-693
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1895280
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Author-Name: Sandra Faustino
Author-X-Name-First: Sandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Faustino
Author-Name: Inês Faria
Author-X-Name-First: Inês
Author-X-Name-Last: Faria
Author-Name: Rafael Marques
Author-X-Name-First: Rafael
Author-X-Name-Last: Marques
Title: The myths and legends of king Satoshi and the knights of blockchain
Abstract: 
 In this paper, we present an ethnographic account of the quasi-religious romanticism of the crypto-community towards blockchain technologies. To do so, we explore the cultural significance of phenomena such as myth, faith, and ritual, without excluding both the realms of technological practices and techno-scientific narrative. Drawing on a comparison with the legend of King Arthur, we analyse how the legendary creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, translates contemporary anxieties resulting from the financial crisis and the centralisation of power. By analysing white papers, we further explore the persuasive narratives which convey how ethics and virtue can be encoded into software, and, finally, we describe the secular rituals that reinforce cohesion among the community – in moments which are often guided by charismatic preachers and specialists. We argue that blockchain technologies have had a symbolic impact in re-invigorating enchantment and material romanticism towards finance and technology, which has had a wider impact on the social perception and acceptance of the transition to a digital society.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 67-80
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1921830
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Author-Name: Rebecca Jean Emigh
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca Jean
Author-X-Name-Last: Emigh
Title: Towards interactive perspectives on information gathering: what are resolvable differences?
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 123-126
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1974076
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Title: Deleuze in the wild: making philosophy matter for fintech
Abstract: 
 This paper discusses the role of Deleuzian philosophy in fintech projects which operate ‘in the wild’, i.e. far from the major institutional settings of fintech development, and which speculate towards an alternative financial economy, building upon algorithms, blockchains, cryptocurrencies, and crypto-assets. Based on ethnographic data collected with three different projects, I discuss the process of earmarking financial operations by means of philosophical concepts or theories, which enable the re-interpretation of the process of financialisation of everyday life. I further analyse the conceptual socialization of these technological endeavours with the wider-reaching theme of accelerating the capitalist process with the objective to overturn its excessive powers. The paper concludes by suggesting that fintech experiments which are socialized with accelerationist narratives re-interpret the process of financialisation as a path of liberation instead of exploitation, offering an escape from the capitalist crisis through machinic alchemy.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 93-102
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1977676
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Author-Name: Steffen Dalsgaard
Author-X-Name-First: Steffen
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Title: Tales of carbon offsets: between experiments and indulgences?
Abstract: 
 Markets in carbon offsetting have, since their inception, been defended by their proponents as ‘experiments’ when it comes to the scale and the scope of their purpose of governing climate mitigation. Yet, different counter-narratives or ‘tales of defiance’ have been mounted as critiques of offsetting. This article focuses in particular on a tale of defiance, which continually has dismissed offsetting as a form of indulgence payment. While acknowledging that there are clear similarities between offsets and indulgence payments, the article argues that the indulgence payment metaphor glosses over the complexity of both types of transactions. The historical development of indulgence payments in the past demonstrates the difficulty of using them as simple models for understanding the problems inherent to offsetting, even if both types of transactions have been controversial. The debates over carbon offsetting continue to evolve, however, and recent developments seem to suggest a third tale, where the funding of emission-reducing projects are seen as donations of development aid, instead of being assumed to compensate for the donor’s emissions.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 52-66
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1977675
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Author-Name: Zachary Griffen
Author-X-Name-First: Zachary
Author-X-Name-Last: Griffen
Title: The organizational character of statistical expertise
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 130-132
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1977679
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Author-Name: Ismail Ertürk
Author-X-Name-First: Ismail
Author-X-Name-Last: Ertürk
Author-Name: Indradeep Ghosh
Author-X-Name-First: Indradeep
Author-X-Name-Last: Ghosh
Author-Name: Kadambari Shah
Author-X-Name-First: Kadambari
Author-X-Name-Last: Shah
Title: Financial untouchability: a polysemic narrative of digital financial inclusion in Modi’s India
Abstract: 
 India’s post-GFC digital financial inclusion project has been conveyed by an officially constructed polysemic narrative that connotes three distinctive semantic fields: (a) post-colonial Indian developmental policies; (b) post-GFC financialising neoliberal financial inclusion programmes; and (c) traditional Hindu religious values of money and wealth. By assembling a semiological conceptual toolbox from the works of Barthes, Eco, and Ricouer we analyse this specific phenomenon of polysemy in India’s financial inclusion narrative. Based on our findings we develop an argument for a connotative approach to economic discourses as a possible alternative to metonymic understanding of the relationship between language and things in studying markets, economy, and neoliberal policies.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 30-51
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1927147
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Author-Name: Jacob Reilley
Author-X-Name-First: Jacob
Author-X-Name-Last: Reilley
Title: Knowing and governing America: the micro-foundations of a calculative infrastructure
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 127-129
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1974075
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Author-Name: Stefan Bargheer
Author-X-Name-First: Stefan
Author-X-Name-Last: Bargheer
Title: Knowing America
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 133-135
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1983730
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Author-Name: Jess Gilbert
Author-X-Name-First: Jess
Author-X-Name-Last: Gilbert
Title: Statistics, Agriculture, and Democracy in America
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 121-123
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1952101
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Author-Name: Alexandre Abreu
Author-X-Name-First: Alexandre
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Author-Name: Daniel Seabra Lopes
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Seabra
Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes
Title: Forward guidance and the semiotic turn of the European Central Bank
Abstract: 
 This article discusses central bank forward guidance as a performative (Austin) and conative (Jakobson) practice – hence, as a form of audience-centred communication that intends to transform their behaviour when deployed by a narrator who is simultaneously also a character in the story. Taking the European Central Bank (ECB) as its primary example, the article conveys how the double role of narrator and character assumed by this institution renders it more permeable to reactions from the markets and the public. As such, ECB forward guidance is frequently misguided, with its communicative imperatives indeed being ‘corrected’ and ‘reoriented’ by market actors and publics wishing to perceive the European Central Bank as behaving like an impartial and just frontline hero. While acknowledging the presence of conversational features within these reflexive communication practices, the article approaches forward guidance as an unfolding story, not only due to the relevance of the characterisation processes through which the European Central Bank is repositioned as hero or villain by its publics, but also because exemplary episodes exhibit a reminiscent quality that isolates them from their original context and opens them up to the possibility of re-activation – as indeed happened during the recent Covid-19 pandemic crisis.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 14-29
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1921829
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Author-Name: Inês Faria
Author-X-Name-First: Inês
Author-X-Name-Last: Faria
Title: When tales of money fail: the importance of price, trust, and sociality for cryptocurrency users
Abstract: 
 This paper is based on research among blockchain communities in the Netherlands and online terrains. Through an empirical example, it explores tales produced by projects based on the blockchain protocol and on the premise that cryptocurrencies are money and that money has generative potential for social and economic change. By unpacking the pragmatics of a particular project – Bitnation and Pangea – I argue that despite tales of decentralisation through the moneyness of cryptocurrencies, and the distributed and automated character of the blockchain protocol, these currencies, and projects, are deeply entangled with fiat and mainstream economies and markets. This is visible by looking at the ups and downs of cryptocurrency pricing and on the effects this volatility has on (certain) projects. The lack of a sustainable community of trust in cryptocurrencies as money – particularly visible in initiatives following more libertarian and utopian tales, detached from everyday life realities – and the way these retain attention mainly due to speculation, have very real effects for blockchain based projects. No matter how radical their tales for decentralisation and socioeconomic revolution are, utterances for these tales to become real have to be there, and seem absent.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 81-92
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1974070
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Author-Name: Daniel Seabra Lopes
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Seabra
Author-X-Name-Last: Lopes
Author-Name: Inês Faria
Author-X-Name-First: Inês
Author-X-Name-Last: Faria
Author-Name: Sandra Faustino
Author-X-Name-First: Sandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Faustino
Title: Introduction: the tale as a special discourse vehicle
Abstract: 
 This special issue addresses a series of post-2008 financial developments by mobilising the concept of the tale, understood as a discursive artefact composed of a meaningful story or script that serves to separate good from evil, make sense of historical situations, stimulate action, and prefigure scenarios. Unlike standard workplace narratives, which are useful for practical decision-making, tales have strong collective and political connotations. As such, they assume two distinct forms: tales of ‘experiment,’ stemming from innovative projects that seek to transform the financial system from within, and tales of ‘defiance,’ which deal with the more ample changes that horizontal and disobedient practices prefigure. Several analytical coordinates are proposed in order to capture the semiotic and pragmatic natures of the tale. Regarding semiotics, tales involve not only themes and motifs but also polysemic metaphors and what are here defined as processes of characterisation, through which persons or institutions are positioned as characters and assume specific roles within a story. As for the pragmatic dimension, tales mobilise people toward specific functions and address audiences while also relying on material infrastructure to embed some of the content they convey.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 1-13
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1977678
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Author-Name: Emmanuel Didier
Author-X-Name-First: Emmanuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Didier
Title: The future of consistency
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 135-136
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.2002177
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Author-Name: Daniel Seabra Lopes
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Seabra
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Title: The common places of alternative finance: assemblages, stoppages, and the political mobilisation of space
Abstract: 
 This article reflects on the role of physical settings in the inculcation of militant practices consonant with specific discourses. To do so, it draws on firsthand empirical information derived from a multi-sited ethnographic case study of an international cooperative that formed in Europe in the aftermath of the Euro crisis and deployed decentralised cryptocurrencies and alternative digital banking. Here, space is viewed as a relevant material resource that can be occupied and organised to enable the telling of a particular story of revolution, redistribution, and horizontality, while simultaneously helping to actualise that story. The materiality of space is thus related to its expressivity and seen as contributing to both an experience of militancy and the recurrence of the underlying political tale. This approach stresses reminiscence rather than becoming; the existential dimensions of interaction and affection rather than the ontological one of ever-evolving sociotechnical assemblages. On such grounds, the article proposes the concept of stoppage to account for the repetition of specific spatial dispositions that configure extra-institutional immersive environments.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 103-120
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1974071
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Author-X-Name-Last: Brewin
Title: Neoliberal Cities: The Remaking of Postwar Urban America
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 266-269
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1986113
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Author-Name: Yizhou Xu
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Title: Digitizing death: commodification of joss paper on Chinese online cemetery
Abstract: 
 This article explores the digitalization of traditional funeral joss paper into digital commodities through the case study of the Chinese online cemetery 00tang.com. Joss paper are paper replicas of everyday items such as money and objects that are ritually burned as a form of symbolic offering to the deceased in accordance with traditional Chinese practices of ancestor worship. Using both ethnographic interviews and discursive interface analysis, I look at how the remediation of spiritual joss paper into digital objects complicates perceived dichotomy between the gift and commodity that requires new ways of thinking about the acts of social reciprocity, indebtedness, and obligation. Drawing on established literature relating to gift and digital economies, I argue 00tang’s digitization of joss paper on internet cemeteries is reflexive of the biopolitical means by which the state and market forces work to subsume traditional ancestor worship into controllable and commodifiable labor of mourning. Here, the subversive wastefulness of the gift is replaced by its accumulation and preservation online. Digitization in this regard highlights the process by which objects take on different materiality, values, aesthetics, and productive labor practices, all of which fundamentally alters the symbolic regimes of death and the ritual gift economy in China.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 151-167
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1952099
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Author-Name: Razvan Nicolescu
Author-X-Name-First: Razvan
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Author-Name: Shriram Venkatraman
Author-X-Name-First: Shriram
Author-X-Name-Last: Venkatraman
Author-Name: Nell Haynes
Author-X-Name-First: Nell
Author-X-Name-Last: Haynes
Title: Working for your own folks: the microeconomics of social media
Abstract: 
 This paper uses a comparative ethnographic approach to explore the ways in which social media enables new economic strategies that capitalize on women's traditional forms of reliance within their local communities. We use ethnographic examples from northern Chile, southeast Italy, and south India to show how women are successful in establishing small but prestigious entrepreneurial activities by using social media to respond to local social and cultural needs. Women use social media to transform both conventional work practices and individuals' notions of work in ways that overcome important structural constraints they face in their respective communities. These findings contrast with optimistic analyses that suggest online platforms decrease global inequalities through bringing disadvantaged people into global economic flows. This article demonstrates the effective ways in which individuals use social media to gradually change local norms related to gender and work while making small but important gains towards economic stability. This process is related to important shifts in sociality that have resulted from social media use within local communities. By focusing on entrepreneurship and gendered aspects of online economic exchange, we develop an understanding of what happens when longstanding expectations for gendered work meet commerce made possible through new media.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 168-183
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1974072
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Author-Name: Lisa L. Munro
Author-X-Name-First: Lisa L.
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Title: Come and see Guatemala at Macy’s! Indigenous aesthetics and informal empire on display in the heart of the American home
Abstract: 
 During the 1920s and 1930s, a new wave of mass consumer culture swept through the United States, fueling a fad for modern and exotic objects to display at home. Department stores stuffed their massive showrooms with new home decor styles, such as the exciting textile patterns industrial designer Ruth Reeves created following her ethnographic collecting trip to Guatemala in 1934. Although scholars have shown how powerful transnational corporations, such as the United Fruit Corporation, shaped exploitative large-scale neocolonial economies in Central America, I argue that individual consumption of indigenous culture transformed middle-class white women into stakeholders in new destructive patterns of U.S. imperial expansion in Latin America. This article historicizes the development of racial capitalism and shows how individual acts of cultural appropriation and consumption of indigenous material culture were transformed into collective practices of racial and gendered exploitation to restore U.S. cultural and economic vitality through empire during the Great Depression.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 184-199
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1977677
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Author-Name: Solange Vivienne Manche
Author-X-Name-First: Solange Vivienne
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Author-Name: Juan Sebastian Carbonell
Author-X-Name-First: Juan Sebastian
Author-X-Name-Last: Carbonell
Title: Repoliticising the future of work: automation and the end of techno-optimism
Abstract: 
 This review article of Aaron Benanav’s Automation and the Future of Work (2020) and Jason Smith’s Smart Machines and Service Work (2020) reads both works as an effort to repoliticise the question of unemployment, which has too often been ascribed to technological innovation, especially by proponents of automation theory. It places their works within current debates surrounding the question of automation and its political reverberations across the political spectrum. In the end, we show that the shortcomings of automation discourse reside in their economic analyses of the future of work and employment and that automation theorists encourage a depoliticisation of the question of employment through technocracy, while Benanav and Smith open the way for thinking about the future of work as a collective and social endeavour.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 270-276
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2028651
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Author-Name: Jack Kværnø-Jones
Author-X-Name-First: Jack
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Title: The significance of boring FinTech: technology imaginaries and value vernaculars in established banks
Abstract: 
 How do financial professionals work with technological visions of the future of banking? Such visions are prompted by the technology sub-sector known as FinTech, a broad phenomenon of start-ups and technological innovations aimed at financial services markets, characterised by claims that banking could be radically different. Drawing on pragmatic studies of finance and Cornelius Castoriadis’s theory of creative imagination, this paper explores the imaginative limits of technology innovation in established banks. Through analysis of semi-structured interviews with banking and FinTech professionals, observations at industry events, and analysis of documents obtained from banks, the findings highlight an interplay between dominant vernaculars of ‘strategic value’ and organisational imaginaries of traditional banking. This interplay delimits the boundaries of technological imagination through reshaping the moral and temporal claims of FinTech disruption discourse. This entails a move from the moral modality of what should be, found in FinTech disruption narratives, to a modality of what can be; a shift from the dramatic narratives of changing powerful structures, drawing on the discursive repertoires of social movements and religious myths, to the non-heroic, pragmatic expectations of the art of the possible.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 232-246
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 03
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Author-Name: Brandaan Huigen
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Title: Smartphones for drugs: exchange relations in a South African gang since apartheid
Abstract: 
 This article outlines the nature of exchange relations between members of the so-called Number Gangs in South Africa. Transactions between these township-based members changed after apartheid with political and economic liberalisation. Through the case of an active gang leader in Cape Town, who was previously a career burglar, I look at the material things that move between members. I argue that transactions inside the gang do not make use of money, but are rather characterised by in-kind exchanges. These have four interdependent outcomes which structure the gang: (1) gifts that shape obligations in young recruits and experienced offenders; (2) enduring barter transactions for the collection of stolen electronics following such gifts; (3) employment in a context of joblessness; and (4) control for leaders.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 247-263
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 03
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Author-Name: Monika Krause
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Author-Name: Katherine Robinson
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Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson
Title: Materialising reform: how conservation encounters collection practises in zoos
Abstract: 
 This paper examines how zoos decide which animals to keep, drawing on guidance produced by zoo membership organisations and in-depth interviews with zoo curators. Zoos make curatorial decisions within constraints posed by each zoo’s legacy of buildings and animals. Different versions of ‘conservation value’ inform decision-making alongside other criteria such as education value, visitor value and whether or not animals are available. We find that an international agenda to rationalise zoo collection planning in the name of environmental conservation has only partially reshaped existing practices. As a ‘bald object’ in the Latourian sense, ‘conservation’ presents a clean surface, which also means that it invites projections that attach to concrete practices only in loose ways. Given the ambiguity of conservation as a value, conservation presents zoos with a range of options and can be made to fit a broad range of choices, which make sense to actors for other reasons. Reform efforts gain traction where they are inserted as ‘hairy objects’ and resonate with practical problems zoos are already facing. Reforms in the name of conservation have led to networks of exchange and co-operation, which help zoos to secure new animals in the context of new regulations.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 137-150
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1952096
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Title: Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 264-266
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1977681
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Author-Name: Arno van der Hoeven
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Author-Name: Rick Everts
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Author-X-Name-Last: Everts
Author-Name: Martijn Mulder
Author-X-Name-First: Martijn
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Author-Name: Pauwke Berkers
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Author-Name: Erik Hitters
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Author-Name: Paul Rutten
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Rutten
Title: Valuing value in urban live music ecologies: negotiating the impact of live music in the Netherlands
Abstract: 
 This paper seeks to understand the role of valuing in urban live music ecologies. It explains how multiple actors (e.g. directors of music venues, musicians, policy-makers, and real estate experts) in Dutch live music ecologies negotiate the different values of live music. To examine this dynamic, we use insights from literature on innovation ecosystems from the field of business, as well as research on live music ecologies from popular music studies literature. Enhancing the conceptualisation of live music ecologies, we distinguish four dimensions of live music ecologies (live music as a material reality, a network of actors and organisations, a social institution, and a lived cultural practice) and four values (cultural, social, economic, and spatial). We use this perspective specifically to analyse the process of valuing on the levels of musicians, venues and festivals, and cities in the Netherlands. Drawing upon 45 in-depth interviews, we demonstrate how in live music ecologies the various understandings of value need to be aligned by venues and festivals, value slippage occurs for musicians, and values should be anchored in specific places and urban policies on the city level.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 216-231
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.2002175
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Author-Name: Chi-Mao Wang
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Title: Securing participation in global pork production networks: biosecurity, multispecies entanglements, and the politics of domestication practices
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 Since the 1980s, East Asian regions have gradually grown into the biggest importers and producers of animal products in the world. Among them, Taiwan has become the world’s biggest pork exporter since 1990 but the export market suddenly crashed owing to the outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease in 1997. Since then, biosecurity has been increasingly deemed necessary to manage animal lives. While food regime theory has been steadily employed by critical scholars to examine this rapid ‘meatification’ process in East Asia, it has suffered from ‘inclusionary bias’, paying less attention to the consequences of market failure. Informed by social studies of economisation and marketisation and work on multispecies, I contend that the studies of global agri-food production need to be more attentive to the issue of disarticulations: the ‘dark sides’ of network incorporation. With a specific focus on the Taiwanese pork sector after 1997, this paper argues that ‘politics of domestication’ emerged as markets broke down. I outline three characteristics which have shaped the politics of domestication: disentanglement, marginalisation, and co-becoming. While biosecurity seeks to manage life by separating hog bodies from other species, this paper points out that this enclosure strategy is always subject to threats from within.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 200-215
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.2018346
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Title: Renovating Value: HGTV and the Spectacle of Gentrification
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 380-383
Issue: 3
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2028656
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Author-Name: Nicholas Surber
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Author-X-Name-Last: Surber
Title: Legitimation crisis in contemporary technoscientific capitalism
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 373-379
Issue: 3
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2065331
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Author-Name: Victoria Barker
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Author-Name: Jennie Jordan
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Title: Finding the sweet spot: critiquing a cultural ecosystems approach to civic cultural strategy making
Abstract: 
 This paper contributes to debates about how cities create resilient systems for making, re-making and maintaining representations of culture. Our case traces how collaborative festival production implicitly created an infrastructure founded on shared values. This was formalised into city cultural policy using an ecosystem framework, which institutionalised these values, and meant that the ecosystem became partial, excluding creative commercial and community organisations, city residents from diverse backgrounds, and influential non-city bodies. Using the same model to analyse the strategy making process, we argue that this framework can only develop resilience where there is explicit inclusion of the diversity of the city’s cultural interests. This diversity is central to resilient ecosystems, and whilst this framework may offer more inclusive strategy approaches, it also decentralises ownership and leadership. We ask – is there a ‘sweet spot’ for resilient and inclusive cultural policy between centralised strategy and a laissez-faire approach?
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 277-292
Issue: 3
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2041464
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Title: Capturing Finance: Arbitrage and Social Domination
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 383-386
Issue: 3
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2048880
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Author-Name: Thirza Andriessen
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Author-Name: Oona Morrow
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Author-X-Name-Last: Morrow
Author-Name: Hilje Van der Horst
Author-X-Name-First: Hilje
Author-X-Name-Last: Van der Horst
Title: Murky moralities: performing markets in a charitable food aid organization
Abstract: 
 This paper explores how competing moralities are brought together in the performance of a market for charitable food aid. Markets, rather than functioning as neutral technologies for bringing together supply and demand, are thoroughly moral phenomena. In markets, calculative devices are crucial for realizing exchange, by facilitating mutual agreement on price and quality. However, such practices of calculation can violate moralities of charity. This paper examines what happens when market practices and moralities are introduced in charitable settings. This is done through an in-depth case study of a food aid organization in the Netherlands that is organized as a supermarket, and part of a broader trend in re-organizing the provision of emergency food aid through the introduction of practices and technologies that shape a market. The case study shows how the socio-technical arrangements which organize market exchange, such as price labels and budget cards, are entangled with neoliberal moralities encouraging financial responsibility. At the same time, the findings show that moralities associated with charity are also present, which can lead to contestations over ‘good’ market performances. Such shifting moral judgements require participants to navigate conflicting moralities to be recognized as deserving recipients of aid.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 293-309
Issue: 3
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2041462
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Author-Name: Allan Watson
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Author-Name: Andrew Leyshon
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Title: Negotiating platformisation: MusicTech, intellectual property rights and third wave platform reintermediation in the music industry
Abstract: 
 The music industry is a frontier sector of platformisation. Having undergone two previous waves of platform reintermediation in the form of peer-to-peer networks and streaming platforms, a third wave of platform reintermediation is now underway, as a constellation of MusicTech start-ups, fuelled by angel investors and venture capitalists, experiment with digital technologies allowing users to consume or create music in novel ways. Drawing on interviews with key actors in London and Stockholm, we reveal that an accommodation between tech disruptors and industry incumbents was achieved during the second wave of platform intermediation. However, emerging links between incumbents and MusicTech start-ups in the third wave are overshadowed by a chronic tension that is constituent of intellectual property capitalism and amplified by the legacy effects of preceding waves of platform reintermediation. The ownership of intellectual property confers significant advantages to incumbents when challenged by platform incursion, with copyright assets robustly asserted through publishing rights and defended in law. Set in this context, our examination of the music industry as a pioneer platform industry entering a new wave of platform reintermediation reveals key challenges for both incumbents and start-ups in other sectors of the economy as they too enter broader processes of platformisation.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 326-343
Issue: 3
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2028653
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Author-Name: Irene Øvstebø Tvedten
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Title: Distributed accountability: picking a carbon price for cost–benefit analysis
Abstract: 
 Despite general disagreement over what the most suitable monetary value for a carbon price is, one particular carbon price somehow became the most commonly used price in cost–benefit analysis in the transport sector in Norway for a short period. This article examines how that came about by tracing that particular carbon price through several documents over the course of ten years. In understanding how the carbon price could travel, this study looks at the carbon price and its movements as a sequence of detachments, what I call ‘price picking.’ The study shows how a distribution of accountability stabilized the carbon price, and that certain guiding principles in the field of economics took part in steering and maintaining the carbon price. The study concludes that the distribution of accountability through price picking is both an expression of, and a response to, price realization being both a moral and political practice.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 358-372
Issue: 3
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2028649
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Author-Name: Simone Polillo
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Title: From collateral to money: social meaning, security devices and the law in the depersonalization of monetary relationships
Abstract: 
 A new sociology of money has emerged over the past three decades. Unlike conventional accounts, it is attentive to the social conditions of money-making and circulation: social relationships, authority, and impersonal trust. Yet, the problem of how money is at once ‘special’ – invested with meaning, personalized, and often physically earmarked in everyday transactions – and generalized, used across social boundaries, remains unsolved. Building on the anthropology of law and the economization perspective, I bridge this gap by focusing on the processes by which money is economized through security devices, mechanisms that enable the exchange of money by sustaining a credit relationship when connections between lender and borrower are insufficient, inadequate, or altogether absent. As they make such transactions possible, security devices create new interdependencies, which become visible once the promise is broken and the guarantee that was pledged as security is repossessed. Understanding the regulation of security devices, therefore, yields new insights into the nature of money, as the legal remedies in place to deal with failure implicate monetary authorities in a politics of redress, through which what counts as collateral, under what conditions, and with what penalties, gets redefined and connected to broader financial and political processes of monetary creation.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 310-325
Issue: 3
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2028654
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Author-Name: Steve Marotta
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Title: Windows into the ethically made: affect, value, and the ‘pricing paradox’ in the maker movement
Abstract: 
 This paper seeks to examine the ‘pricing paradox,’ an affective-ethical-economic conundrum encountered by small-scale urban craft producers known as ‘makers.’ Set within an industrialized producer-consumer imaginary, the pricing paradox captures a central frustration for makers: ‘ethical’ production inflates prices, consequently generating new ethical questions about accessibility. Unethical prices, in other words, are the cost of organizing one’s production around ethical values. Unable to meaningfully affect the pricing mechanism, makers have responded to this conundrum by seeking ways to open ‘windows’ into their production process, thereby extending an invitation to the consumer and stewarding affective attachments between producer-consumer and consumer-object. The idea is to change the value proposition between makers and consumers and shape an alternative value imaginary in which prices at least make more sense. Additionally, the paper seeks to situate affect more prominently in discourses on moral/ethical economies. As such, the paper uses feminist affect theory to think differently about defetishization, ethical production/consumption, and value more broadly. Finally, the paper concludes with a discussion on the politics of windows and their broader situation in the impasse of contemporary capitalism.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 344-357
Issue: 3
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2028650
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Author-Name: Andrea Pollio
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea
Author-X-Name-Last: Pollio
Author-Name: Liza Rose Cirolia
Author-X-Name-First: Liza Rose
Author-X-Name-Last: Cirolia
Title: Fintech urbanism in the startup capital of Africa
Abstract: 
 From innovations in mobile money to bookkeeping devices, the burgeoning of financial-technologies (fintech) in the Global South has been critiqued by scholars concerned with financialization, datafication, and recently, neo-coloniality. While sympathetic to these concerns, this paper argues for a more descriptive, ambivalent, and urban reading of the implications and stakes of this fintech boom. Using Cape Town as a case study, we explore how the city has become and positioned itself as a/the capital of fintech innovation in Africa. With two detailed vignettes that look respectively at the recent histories of business process offshoring in the city and at the cycles of experimentation that via Cape Town bring fintech to the rest of the continent, we make three arguments. First, that the urban state has been instrumental in shaping how fintech lands in cities and how the infrastructures which support it develop. Second, that diverse cultural economies of experimentation engender the worlding practices through which local fintech ecosystems operate. Overall, we suggest that paying attention to these different ways in which fintech is enabled and mobilized by the urban state opens a necessary research agenda into the ambivalence of financial innovation in Africa.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 508-523
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2058058
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Author-Name: Philip Mader
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Author-Name: Maren Duvendack
Author-X-Name-First: Maren
Author-X-Name-Last: Duvendack
Author-Name: Keir Macdonald
Author-X-Name-First: Keir
Author-X-Name-Last: Macdonald
Title: Fintech and tax in Sub-Saharan Africa: taxation versus financial inclusion
Abstract: 
 The rise of digital financial services has attracted growing attention from governments in Sub-Saharan Africa seeking to raise tax revenue. In the context of global concerns around how governments can tax the digital economy and fintech, we evaluate recent debates over mobile money taxation in Africa as fundamentally political, rather than technical matters. We assess in depth three such debates, in Kenya, Uganda and Malawi. In doing so, we draw on a critical reading of recent political economy literature on taxation, state-business relations, and the ambiguity of financial inclusion. Our research highlights how political questions about tax materialize as technical ones, how governments’ tax bargaining is influenced by business interests, and how the ambiguity of financial inclusion allows qualms over adverse effects on financial services to frustrate and supersede other policy concerns.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 488-507
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Volume: 15
Year: 2022
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Author-Name: Rob Aitken
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Title: Mediating and mapping climate risk: micro-insurance and earth observation
Abstract: 
 The recent trajectory of micro-insurance in Africa lies at the intersection of two trends that have been percolating unevenly over the past decades: (1) the incorporation of micro-insurance into the practices of FinTech; and (2) the reframing of micro-insurance as a technology relevant to the management of ‘climate risk.’ I focus on digital experiments in the construction of platforms which access data from remote sensing ‘earth observation’ technologies to formulate unique indices of climate risk. These platforms mediate the antinomies of presence/absence, place/distance; they operate ‘remotely’ from the risks they constitute and map while claiming an intimate and ‘hyper-local’ index of those risks. These mediations manage the distance between ‘the ground’ and the ‘remote’ sites from which knowledge of particular locations is produced, constituting new forms of territory and volume. I argue that these platforms entail unique uncertainties of their own: the ongoing problems of basis risk; costs imposed on vulnerable populations often unable to afford premiums; and issues of climate injustice in which responsibility is placed on poor populations to manage climate risks they had little role in creating in the first place.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 468-487
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Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 07
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Author-Name: Ritwick Ghosh
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Title: A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 546-549
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Year: 2022
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Author-Name: Daivi Rodima-Taylor
Author-X-Name-First: Daivi
Author-X-Name-Last: Rodima-Taylor
Title: Platformizing Ubuntu? FinTech, Inclusion, and Mutual Help in Africa
Abstract: 
 The article explores the ways in which FinTech is constituted as a platform economy in two African countries, Kenya and South Africa. Investigating the intersection of FinTech with the social economies of African mutual help groups, it situates the evolvement of such groups in chronic instabilities shaped by the extractive legacies of colonialism and neoliberal restructuring. Seeking to contribute to wider debates about FinTech-mediated financial inclusion, the article contends that FinTech as a political economy does not simply formalize monetary and financial relations. Instead, it works explicitly at the intersection of formal and informal, by combining old and new, digital and non-digital, inanimate and peopled infrastructures. The paper studies how these sociotechnical assemblages are shaped by colonial legacies, transforming financial relations while carrying forward inequalities. It argues that the peculiar constellation of private capital and financial technology around digital platforms seeks to profit from these social networks that are often seen by FinTech actors as driven by various local versions of Ubuntu, the idea of human interdependence rooted in humanist African philosophy. The article makes novel contributions to several literatures, including those of rotating saving and credit associations, financial inclusion, and formalization.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 416-435
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 07
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Author-Name: Abbi Kedir
Author-X-Name-First: Abbi
Author-X-Name-Last: Kedir
Author-Name: Euphrasie Kouame
Author-X-Name-First: Euphrasie
Author-X-Name-Last: Kouame
Title: FinTech and women’s entrepreneurship in Africa: the case of Burkina Faso and Cameroon
Abstract: 
 Our article examines the role of financial technology (FinTech) in improving the occupational choices of women in the global South. We analyse the link between FinTech and entrepreneurship, drawing on large data sets from central and western Africa that hold important novel policy implications for the wider Africa region. Our study helps to clarify if and when financial technology use may translate into self-employment, and how it can contribute to the improvement of the livelihoods of marginalised social groups. The article calls for a critical view of financial inclusion and highlights the importance of considering gendered livelihood and resource access patterns. Most of the existing research on financial inclusion in Africa is linked to access to and use of formal bank-based finance. Hence, the expanding mobile money use in Africa is viewed as contributing to financial inclusion. We argue that the dynamics involved are much more complex, and FinTech enters into and interacts with a sophisticated web of informal and formal financial institutions and transactional patterns. Disaggregating our analysis by gender, we explore how the use of mobile money enhances women’s entrepreneurship. The article also advances policy recommendations with important implications for the development of FinTech in the continent.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 452-467
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2041463
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Author-Name: Paul Langley
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Langley
Author-Name: Daivi Rodima-Taylor
Author-X-Name-First: Daivi
Author-X-Name-Last: Rodima-Taylor
Title: FinTech in Africa: an editorial introduction
Abstract: 
 Applications of digital technologies to retail money and finance have gathered pace across the globe over the last decade or so, constituting novel ‘FinTech’ economies. Although FinTech is registering across critical social scientific research, insufficient dedicated attention has been paid to FinTech in Africa. Bringing together scholars from multiple disciplines and fields, this special issue of eight papers asks what is different about the forms that FinTech is taking in Africa, and considers how foregrounding developments on the continent might reshape social science research agendas and political conversations around FinTech globally. In this Introduction, we show how the papers make three main conceptual and analytical moves to attune research to the distinctive features of FinTech in Africa, thereby shifting the focus for research (1) from global financial inclusion agendas to colonial histories and presents, (2) from economic formalization to multiple modes of economization, and, (3) from techno-economic ecosystems to statecraft and international security.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 387-400
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2092193
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Author-Name: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn
Author-X-Name-First: Malcolm
Author-X-Name-Last: Campbell-Verduyn
Author-Name: Francesco Giumelli
Author-X-Name-First: Francesco
Author-X-Name-Last: Giumelli
Title: Enrolling into exclusion: African blockchain and decolonial ambitions in an evolving finance/security infrastructure
Abstract: 
 There is growing debate over whether applications of blockchain and other financial technologies (‘fintechs’) reinforce forms of neo-colonial extraction that perpetuate North–South inequities or help enact decolonial ambitions across the Global South. This paper expands such discussions and contributes to this special issue on ‘fintech in Africa’ by situating emerging African blockchain techno-experimentation within wider international infrastructural relations. We argue that blockchain-based activities in and across the African continent must be understood within those also unfolding in countries that have been subjected to financial sanctions of varying types (China, Iran, Russia, Venezuela) by the European Union, United States, and United Nations. Our analysis traces how blockchain-based applications by sanctioned countries are extending exclusions in novel and existing socio-technical relations. We conclude that blockchain-based experiments are facilitating rather than displacing a colonial finance/security infrastructure.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 524-543
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2028655
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Author-Name: Mengqi Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Mengqi
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Title: Homeownership in Hong Kong: House Buying as Hope Mechanism
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 544-546
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2073558
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Author-Name: Paul Langley
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Langley
Author-Name: Andrew Leyshon
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Leyshon
Title: Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa
Abstract: 
 This paper makes a three-fold contribution to social science research into FinTech in Africa. First, we build on existing research into mobile payments to show how FinTech providers offer unsecured short-term credit products via mobile wallets. Second, we stress how the expansion of Africa’s FinTech economy is constituted through the distinctive platformization processes of platform capitalism. Third, we develop current work that highlights how the growth of FinTech in Africa rests on historically specific and geographically uneven conditions of racialized marginalization rooted in colonial legacies, and argue that FinTech is renewing and recasting colonial relations in the present. We show how FinTech platforms are assembled through neo-colonial corporate telecommunication, digital and data infrastructures that enrol differentiated populations previously excluded from formal financial relations under colonial regimes. Platforms are also revealed to extol a version of the modernizing and civilizing mission of the enlightened empowerment of individuals whilst simultaneously extracting rents through racialized expropriations. Illustration is provided throughout by in-depth case analysis of JUMO, a Cape Town-based FinTech firm that currently operates across six African countries.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 401-415
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2028652
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Author-Name: Vincent Guermond
Author-X-Name-First: Vincent
Author-X-Name-Last: Guermond
Title: Whose money? Digital remittances, mobile money and fintech in Ghana
Abstract: 
 This articles explores the intertwining of the digitalisation of remittances with the behavioural turn in development and, more specifically, the advancement of digital financial inclusion. It sheds light on the intricate ways in which state, civil society and private sector actors seek to leverage digital remittances as a way to expand financial inclusion. Drawing upon qualitative field research undertaken in Ghana, this paper traces the emergence and take up of digital financial services – including digital remittances – and argues that the advancement of digital financial inclusion runs the risk of increasing the capacity of commercial and financial institutions to curtail migrants’ and remittance recipients’ essential strategies of social reproduction. By providing a grounded account of the concerted efforts that must be made in order for the ‘behavioural turn’ in international development to materialise, this article contributes to the development of a geography of marketisation framework that is attuned to this behavioural shift. It also advances a burgeoning literature that critically unpacks the often-celebrated turn to fintech and digital financial inclusion in international development.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 436-451
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.2018347
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Author-Name: Katarina Damjanov
Author-X-Name-First: Katarina
Author-X-Name-Last: Damjanov
Title: Commodity and the commons: accumulations of capital on the space frontier
Abstract: 
 Designated as one of the global commons, outer space steadily matures as a commodity frontier at which to propel the designs and imaginaries of capitalist economy. While plans to mine the Moon, massify space tourism and colonise Mars are still works in development, the routes of its conquest expand exponentially down here on Earth, as its spectacular proceedings are mediated into a range of images, events, artefacts, samples, and experiences that disperse across the productive and reproductive ambits of terrestrial cultures. These spin-off commodities herald the evolution of the high-tech structures of power that seek to seize control over shared natural and social resources and temper the ways in which the species assembles around the commons of space. I attend to the endeavour to incorporate space into the capitalist world-system by exploring the cultural logics that precede and underpin its expansions along its ‘final frontier’. Highlighting the role of commodity in more-than planetary accumulations of capital, I suggest that its proliferation is not merely an outcome of nascent forms of technological imperialisms as they set out to claim their cosmic share, but a vital resource from which to thrust their appetites for production, consumption, and destruction out there.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 584-598
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2066709
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Author-Name: Ajay Gandhi
Author-X-Name-First: Ajay
Author-X-Name-Last: Gandhi
Author-Name: Sebastian Schwecke
Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian
Author-X-Name-Last: Schwecke
Author-Name: Barbara Harriss-White
Author-X-Name-First: Barbara
Author-X-Name-Last: Harriss-White
Author-Name: Douglas E. Haynes
Author-X-Name-First: Douglas E.
Author-X-Name-Last: Haynes
Title: Abetting the market: on property, propriety and actually existing capitalisms
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 716-723
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2098168
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Author-Name: Frederic Heine
Author-X-Name-First: Frederic
Author-X-Name-Last: Heine
Title: Performing hard money: monetary policy, metaphor and masculinity in the making of EMU
Abstract: 
 Since the global financial crisis, the relationships between gender and political economy have received renewed attention, emphasising change as well as continuities. Similarly, a recent return of attention to the interrelation between masculinity and neoliberalism has stressed historicity and specificity in the nature of these relationships. However, the question how articulations of gender and the economy are socially and politically made within a contested field of economic governance has not yet received attention. This paper seeks to contribute to the literature with the concept of gendered performative agency, which can be used to specify the link between masculinities and political economy, and inform a gendered analysis of important politico-economic events. Empirically, it contributes a study of the making of the monetary policy principles of the European Monetary Union (EMU), analysing the gendered performative agency of the governors of the German Bundesbank in their public discourse from 1988 to 1998. It argues that by mobilising metaphors of disciplinary masculinity in their discourse of monetary policy and in their performances of identity, the governors fostered legitimacy for their policy positions. Thus, the performance of masculinity contributed to performing monetary policy and to shaping the EMU.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 671-687
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2085144
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Author-Name: Esben Langager Olsen
Author-X-Name-First: Esben Langager
Author-X-Name-Last: Olsen
Author-Name: Johan Simonsen Abildgaard
Author-X-Name-First: Johan
Author-X-Name-Last: Simonsen Abildgaard
Title: The figural space of the business simulacrum: examining an educative change management simulation
Abstract: 
 In this paper, we present an examination of a game-based business simulation. We approach the simulation as a provocative technique and analyse it as a business simulacrum. Business simulacra are referential artifacts that partake in the coordination of business and economy. In the study, we shed light on how business simulacra affect actors’ subjectivity. We suggest that Lyotard’s writing provides hitherto underappreciated inspiration for addressing this issue. Lyotard offers a theorization and a vocabulary which centers the simulacrum’s performativity in the space between the perceived and the perceiver. The analysis shows how the simulation designers have assembled the game by sourcing established business simulacra and translating them into easy-to-discern figures of business reality. The designers couple this translated business simulacrum with ludic elements and reflexivity techniques, aimed at making the learning subjects realize and articulate change management problems. With the sensitives provided by Lyotard, the paper discusses simulacra’s potentials to provoke business reality in events that entangle business subjects’ subconscious with figures of business reality sourced from popular business discourse. The paper concludes by discussing the implications of the analysis for current debates on artificiality in business education, and business simulacra’s performativity more generally.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 634-651
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2085141
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Author-Name: Tsukasa Mizushima
Author-X-Name-First: Tsukasa
Author-X-Name-Last: Mizushima
Title: Shares, land, and market
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 713-716
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2098166
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Author-Name: Andreas Langenohl
Author-X-Name-First: Andreas
Author-X-Name-Last: Langenohl
Title: Making uncertainty operable: social coordination through game theory in decentralized finance
Abstract: 
 As blockchain technologies are discussed in their political dimensions, this paper questions the political implications of developments in decentralized finance (DeFi). It looks at the ways that DeFi projects refer to game theory as a template for designing the integration of off-chain financial processes into on-chain processes. DeFi’s reference to game theory carries normative understandings of social coordination that oscillate between (liberal) cooperation and (neo-liberal) non-cooperation and defection. This is evidenced in the ways that DeFi installs fundamental uncertainty as well as the reliability of participants’ information, as the key resource for modeling social coordination. While referring to a libertarian notion of ‘collective intelligence,’ the models tend to involve participants in high-stake transactions under conditions of uncertainty. These results have consequences for the social studies of finance more generally: The prominence of game theory in DeFi indicates that the performativity of economic theory, often depicted in the ways that theory-derived models enable pricing calculation and the transformation of uncertainty into risk, may also result in the celebration of radical uncertainty as a resource of strategic action.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 688-703
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2085146
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Author-Name: Matthew Tillotson
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Tillotson
Title: A Yorkstone Godzilla. A materiality of mutuality at the Halifax Building Society, 1968–1974
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 How does a monumental building – the former headquarters of the Halifax Building Society – in a northern English town embody a material expression of the mutualised mortgage industry dominant in the UK at the time of its conception and construction? How does this building correspond to a specific dispositif of mutuality? I consider questions such as these through documentary research, an interview, and correspondence with an architect who worked on the project (1968–1974). The building’s current use as a global banking group’s ‘head office’ is significantly different from that which supported mutuality in the 1970s, and I consider the building’s architectural and technological forms to understand how it organised a material cultural expression of the mutual building society’s power, and of its members’ money–power, through the mechanisation of an intensifying mortgage-handling business and the bunkering of a gradually increasing stock of mortgage paper.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 617-633
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2083659
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Author-Name: Llerena Guiu Searle
Author-X-Name-First: Llerena Guiu
Author-X-Name-Last: Searle
Title: Alternatives to the performance of economics
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 704-707
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1977680
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Author-Name: Eran Fisher
Author-X-Name-First: Eran
Author-X-Name-Last: Fisher
Author-Name: Zeev Rosenhek
Author-X-Name-First: Zeev
Author-X-Name-Last: Rosenhek
Title: Engendering assemblages: the constitution of digital health data as an epistemic consumption object
Abstract: 
 This article uncovers the ideational work implied in the formation of a new assemblage dedicated to the constitution of ‘digital health’ as a productive field of social action. We analyze the Israeli National Plan for Digital Health as a Growth Engine, examining how it formulates and communicates imaginaries of digital health and of health data. The analysis illuminates how digital health data is constructed as an epistemic consumption object with economic and social value, and how the assemblage necessary for realizing these values is imagined. The research reveals the predominant position of one actant – health data – in the formation of the assemblage. The notion of digital health data and the ways in which it is imagined as a multivocal and open-ended object function as a pivotal focus of the assemblage, giving it its characters, outlining its goals and the benefits that might emerge from its operation, defining the human and non-human actants that constitute it, and formulating the conditions for its productive operation. At a more general level, the study contributes to the study of the formation of socio-technical assemblages that are constituted around data as their pivotal focus, elucidating the specific imaginaries involved in these processes.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 599-616
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2073557
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Author-Name: Leilah Vevaina
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Title: The plot to disembed: markets in the subjunctive tense
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 710-713
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2134176
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Author-Name: Stine Simonsen Puri
Author-X-Name-First: Stine Simonsen
Author-X-Name-Last: Puri
Title: Beyond the Bazaar: Interconnecting Indian Markets
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 707-710
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2066151
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Author-Name: Ignacio Siles
Author-X-Name-First: Ignacio
Author-X-Name-Last: Siles
Author-Name: Amy Ross Arguedas
Author-X-Name-First: Amy
Author-X-Name-Last: Ross Arguedas
Author-Name: Mónica Sancho
Author-X-Name-First: Mónica
Author-X-Name-Last: Sancho
Author-Name: Ricardo Solís-Quesada
Author-X-Name-First: Ricardo
Author-X-Name-Last: Solís-Quesada
Title: Playing Spotify’s game: artists’ approaches to playlisting in Latin America
Abstract: 
 This paper examines recent transformations in music industries associated with platformization by privileging the perspectives, experiences, and voices of artists. We draw on in-depth interviews with 41 musicians based in two Latin American countries: Costa Rica and Mexico. We analyze how artists perceive the “power” and limitations of playlists, how they think playlists are transforming music industries, and how they associate various forms of pressure with this process. We then show that artists’ perceptions about these issues are not uniform but rather variable by discussing three logics that shape the meaning they attribute to Spotify and playlists: dominant, oppositional, and negotiated. Finally, the paper explains the factors that account for why musicians in these countries espouse these logics in different ways. The conclusion argues for considering platformization as more than a purely technological process that needs to be situated within the wider national histories and cultural configurations of the music industries.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 551-567
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2058061
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Author-Name: Thomas Edward Sutcliffe
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Edward
Author-X-Name-Last: Sutcliffe
Title: Consumption work in household circular economy activities: findings from a cultural probe experiment
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 The widely discussed transition to a circular economy (CE) combines a large number of approaches that imply varying degrees of change and affect institutions and actor groups. Despite this variety, the basic premise of CE is that production and consumption are connected to each other in new ways. Consumers are integral to any attempt to gear the economy toward circularity. In this article, implications for consumption work in CEs are explored based on a qualitative, experimental approach using a handbook as a cultural probe. The case is Norwegian domestic dwellers enacting activities related to CE principles. The study reveals two interconnected findings that question and raise attention to broader social dimensions of circular economic activities in households. First, the participants envisioned and enacted activities of a specific CE alternative, in which a local, community-based, and self-sufficiency vision was central. Here, resources were utilised and cascaded domestically, reducing the link to economic exchanges that reach beyond the household to reduce and close environmental resource loops. Second, the enactment of circular activities required more time and work, leading to discussions in which standard wage labour was presented as problematic because it did not leave enough time to engage in circular consumption work.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 568-583
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2066150
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Author-Name: Madeleine Fairbairn
Author-X-Name-First: Madeleine
Author-X-Name-Last: Fairbairn
Author-Name: Zenia Kish
Author-X-Name-First: Zenia
Author-X-Name-Last: Kish
Author-Name: Julie Guthman
Author-X-Name-First: Julie
Author-X-Name-Last: Guthman
Title: Pitching agri-food tech: performativity and non-disruptive disruption in Silicon Valley
Abstract: 
 Food and agriculture have recently become focal points of tech sector innovation and financing. Rapidly multiplying agri-food tech startups are promising to import the tech sector’s trademark disruptive innovation into an industry they deem sclerotic, inefficient, and unsustainable. This paper interrogates the cultural and market frictions attending Silicon Valley’s foray into food and agriculture through the lens of what is perhaps the tech sector’s most prominent narrative genre: the public investment pitch. Building on scholarship that views pitching as a performative practice, we show how pitches serve to mediate the tech sector’s entrée into this established industry. Our analysis of four key moments of the agri-food tech pitch reveal how carefully curated framings of agri-food problems and solutions work to reconcile the world-changing ambition and profit-making potential demanded by Silicon Valley investors with the deeply entrenched political economic realities of food and agriculture. Our analysis also suggests a tendency towards ‘non-disruptive disruption’ (Goldstein, J., 2018. Planetary improvement: Cleantech entrepreneurship and the contradictions of green capitalism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press). Despite nods to disrupting the established industry, the tech sector primarily offers incremental improvements on existing technologies, often developed or marketed in partnership with industry incumbents, underscoring the distinction between technological disruption on the one hand and genuine systemic transformation on the other.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 652-670
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2085142
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Author-Name: Andrew Graan
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Title: What was the project? Thoughts on genre and the project form
Abstract: 
 The project form—the very model of ‘a project’ as a type of purposive and transformative action—animates social environments the world over. As a social form, projects constitute a versatile, organizational structure predicated on the management of time, tasks, and resources toward some pre-determined, non-routine goal. Projects combine logistical practical reasoning with visionary aspirational ends. They readily appear across fields of science, education, business, government, and the arts. This essay inquires into the conditions and consequences of the project form, asking: how have norms and practices of project making shaped historical formations, social environments, and our understanding of them? In answering this question, the essay contextualizes the project form within a history of the modern world system. It then develops a theory of the project form, illustrating how the logistical and visionary aspects of projects emerge as effects of genre-mediated processes of project making. Finally, the essay considers how social theories that are blind to the project form risk naturalizing its logics. Through these steps, the essay reflects on the limits and limitations of the project form. This essay is part of the special issue, 'Genre Work in the New Economy,' edited by Ilana Gershon and Michael Prentice.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 735-752
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2087716
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Author-Name: Timothy Mitchell
Author-X-Name-First: Timothy
Author-X-Name-Last: Mitchell
Title: Economy shall (no longer) mean economisation
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 838-842
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Keith Tribe
Author-X-Name-First: Keith
Author-X-Name-Last: Tribe
Title: How I found my way to Max Weber
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 842-846
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2120057
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Title: From scarce resources to ‘the good economy’: a new ‘version of economization’ replacing Weber’s rational ascetism as the capitalist spirit?
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 849-853
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2167853
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Author-Name: Michael M. Prentice
Author-X-Name-First: Michael M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Prentice
Title: From drafts to drafting: genre work, time, and the fragility of managerial expertise in South Korea
Abstract: 
 This article develops an approach towards managerial expertise as a practice organized around and dependent on what I describe as drafting time. The empirical focus is on an employee satisfaction survey at a South Korean conglomerate where I conducted ethnographic research between 2014 and 2015. Departing from approaches that see drafts in service of organizational function or as a production-line model, the article describes how drafting time is a state of work in which claims to expertise, and claims against a lack of expertise, are worked out away from the judgment of others. I describe how high-level human resources managers within the conglomerate Sangdo fashioned themselves as internal consultants through the development of a sophisticated employment survey. When the claims of the survey did not work out as they expected, they were able to re-draft their internal roles vis-a-vis other managers. The article highlights how drafting time is one way for knowledge workers to craft their expertise, particularly through the assemblage of different kinds of genres where their expertise might be properly recognized.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 753-767
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2087715
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Author-Name: Adam Sargent
Author-X-Name-First: Adam
Author-X-Name-Last: Sargent
Title: Transparent constructions: genre translations in building the New India
Abstract: 
 In the last 30 years global investment in Indian real estate has transformed cities like Delhi. Construction firms attract investors by presenting construction as transparently manifesting vetted architectural plans and agreed upon budgets. This article examines the politics of such performed transparency by focusing on the communicational genres which accompany these urban buildings. The architectural drawing and the contract supported the authority of project managers, and engineers. Yet such genres were only efficacious on the construction site when supported by other genres such as notes and sketches. These genres translated architectural schematics and budgets into the mundane work activities of the site. Produced by subcontractors, these genres shaped the activities of workers – from bending rebar to laying bricks – by framing them as acts of service within relations of patronage. Yet they also supported the authoritative account books filled out by engineers. The genres of the subcontractors translated official forms in ways that enabled the work of construction, while also laying the foundation for their own erasure in the official genres of the measurement and account books. In this way, I argue that techniques of rendering construction transparent actually reproduce the very forms of labor that they seem to supplant.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 799-814
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2087717
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Author-Name: Laura R. Ford
Author-X-Name-First: Laura R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Ford
Title: Finding legal meaning in economic history, by way of sociology: endings and beginnings
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 846-848
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2120055
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Author-Name: Caitrin Lynch
Author-X-Name-First: Caitrin
Author-X-Name-Last: Lynch
Author-Name: Adam Coppola
Author-X-Name-First: Adam
Author-X-Name-Last: Coppola
Author-Name: Andrew Holmes
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Holmes
Author-Name: Margaret Rosner
Author-X-Name-First: Margaret
Author-X-Name-Last: Rosner
Title: New genres and obsolete expertise in the new textiles economy
Abstract: 
 This paper examines the role of distinctions between genres in conflicts over expertise in an American textile mill. Riverway is a struggling 150-year-old New England textile mill where members of a diverse workforce focus on producing high quality fabric in a context that demands daily adaptive expertise. Based on fieldwork from 2015–19, we examine how Riverway workers interacted with documentation systems at the mill. They engaged with managers and coworkers around new forms of technology and shifting valuations about skill and expertise, and, in the process, made sense of their roles as workers in a declining industry where their skills and forms of expertise were nearly obsolete. Through analysis of conflicts in the mill, we examine how members of the mill's community of practice made sense of a changing genre ecology of tools for communicating, recording information, communicating asynchronously, and asserting expertise. We show how technologies for making fabric and communicating about fabric production became symbols of valuations tangentially linked to production. These technologies became lightning rods for debates about expertise, skill, and knowledge, and for everyday distinctions that workers and managers made about the value of their work during a time of economic change marked by mill closures.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 815-833
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2087719
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Author-Name: Michael M. Prentice
Author-X-Name-First: Michael M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Prentice
Author-Name: Ilana Gershon
Author-X-Name-First: Ilana
Author-X-Name-Last: Gershon
Title: Introduction: genre work and the new economy
Abstract: 
 The special issue brings together anthropologists working at the intersection of language and economy to draw attention to the dynamics of how people’s experiences of social change are articulated through genre work in different institutional contexts. In recent years, many scholars working in cultural economy have turned to language as an analytic, and this has often focused on the performative dimensions of economic practice as the most significant dimension: the promulgation of financial models, statements of authority from bank leaders, and the power of numbers. While working within similar traditions, we aim to draw attention to the significant, but often overlooked, role that other kinds of genres and other kinds of genre work play for actors in and out of changing economic contexts.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 725-734
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2087721
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Author-Name: Matthew S. Hull
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hull
Title: Lagging and leading genres of the new economy
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 834-837
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2087722
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Author-Name: Ilana Gershon
Author-X-Name-First: Ilana
Author-X-Name-Last: Gershon
Title: Genres are the drive belts of the job market
Abstract: 
 Many job applicants spend an inordinate amount of time struggling with the task of fashioning the most appealing biography of the increasingly skillful self out of interwoven genres that can also circulate individually. These struggles are most frequently articulated as questions of how best to manage different genres’ chronotopic expectations. Under neoliberalism, how workers are expected to represent their previous work lives has shifted significantly from earlier moments of capitalism: they are now expected to represent themselves as entrepreneurial selves. Over and over again in various workshops about job applicant genres, participants’ concerns over how to represent their employment history via different genres became the focus of the workshop. The focus on mastering a genre’s chronotopic expectations stood in for job applicants’ anxieties over representing themselves as the ideal neoliberal employee. The standardization and abstraction of time and the neoliberal expectations now linked to these genres has led to predictable conceptual quandaries for job applicants about how to connect oneself in appropriate ways to previous contexts that become articulated as dilemmas surrounding the pragmatics of producing genres’ chronotopes.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 768-781
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Eitan Wilf
Author-X-Name-First: Eitan
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilf
Title: Phaticity as a technical mystique: the genred, multi-sited mediation of the innovation architect’s expertise
Abstract: 
 Innovation consultants belong to a professional group of people who claim that they can help organizations become more innovative by reconfiguring them in ways that can facilitate the unimpeded flow of information between as many of their employees as possible. They are thus a prime example of phatic experts, inasmuch as they present themselves as people whose expertise turns on establishing channels of communication and contact between employees. In addition to ensuring that they make their clients and their products more innovative, innovation consultants must make socially legible their own economic actions, and themselves as economic actors who are capable of such actions, as part of what sociologists call a profession’s ‘technical mystique,’ that is, expert knowledge made visibly concrete and socially recognizable. Based on fieldwork with innovation consultants in the USA, I examine what phaticity looks like in the contemporary business world; how phatic ideologies regiment what counts as appropriate ‘contact,’ ‘channel,’ and ‘communication’ between organization members; how phaticity is mediated as a socially legible genre by means of material artifacts and the built office environment; and what rhetorical functions and outcomes such a mediation has.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 782-798
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2022
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2021.1927148
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Author-Name: Pedro M. Rey-Araújo
Author-X-Name-First: Pedro M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Rey-Araújo
Author-Name: Laura Martínez-Jiménez
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: Martínez-Jiménez
Author-Name: Lina Gálvez-Muñoz
Author-X-Name-First: Lina
Author-X-Name-Last: Gálvez-Muñoz
Title: Working on working women: the postfeminist mystification of employable femininity in post-crisis Spain
Abstract: 
 This article deploys the notion of ‘employable femininity’, by which we refer to the mystification along postfeminist lines of an idealized womanhood suitable to be employed and worked upon, in order to explore how women’s relation to employment is currently being articulated and contested in contemporary Spain. Structural transformations during neoliberalism have promoted women’s rising involvement into labor markets while, simultaneously, reinforcing the systemic relevance of women’s unpaid work in the domestic arena. A hegemonic, media-constructed model of femininity has thus emerged where participation into paid employment is presented as a path towards liberation and economic independence for certain women who, nonetheless, cannot do away with the care-related responsibilities traditionally allotted to them. The current Spanish conjuncture provides a paradigmatic case in point to observe how women’s relation to employment is being reconfigured, insofar as attempts to ‘re-domesticate’ women in the aftermath of the Great Recession have been confronted by a resurgent feminist movement which, nowadays, figures as the main vector of social contention in contemporary Spain.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 81-96
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2120051
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Author-Name: Rebecca L. Spang
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Spang
Title: The story of work: a new history of Humankind
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 128-130
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
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Title: Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 142-145
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
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Author-Name: Alex Christian
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Author-X-Name-Last: Christian
Title: Thinking infrastructures and the promise of infrastructure: towards advancing the concept of infrastructure
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 134-142
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
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X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2159496
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Author-Name: Tom Duterme
Author-X-Name-First: Tom
Author-X-Name-Last: Duterme
Title: The engineering of stock market indices: winners and losers
Abstract: 
 Stock market indices are among the important figures that are followed in the trading rooms: on the movements of the Dow Jones or the S&P 500 depends the allocation of billions of dollars. At the same time, for the companies that produce and publish them, but also for those whose shares are included in them, they represent a significant source of visibility – and therefore of income. Based on an ethnographic survey at the Brussels stock exchange, this article documents how the different financial actors – aware of the performativity of stock market indices – try to impact their shape. The divergent opinions and interests of these actors are the source of methodological tensions at the heart of these numbers. Through the methods of calculation and selection chosen, the engineers of the indices make perilous trade-offs with far-reaching consequences. By exposing the cognitive and political debates that these indicators crystallise, this article also highlights the unequal representation of the various stakeholders within these statistics. This type of inequality, veiled by the numerical formatting, often goes under the radar of social scientists.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 17-31
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 01
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Author-Name: Mark Banks
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Banks
Title: Cultural work and contributive justice
Abstract: 
 Ideas of contributive justice are concerned with what people give or contribute to society, rather than what they get, as in ideas of distributive justice. This article deals with contributive justice as applied to a specific example of cultural work – work and employment in the UK publicly-funded arts, cultural and creative industries. It is offered mainly as a conceptual discussion rather than a set of concrete policy recommendations. However, given some of the limitations of current distributive models, a principle of universal distribution is postulated, supported by contributive justice as a complementary framework for conceiving and implementing programmes of equal opportunity and ‘creative justice’ in publicly funded cultural work.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 47-61
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 01
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Author-Name: Agustin Ferrari Braun
Author-X-Name-First: Agustin
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferrari Braun
Title: Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 146-149
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
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Author-Name: Koray Caliskan
Author-X-Name-First: Koray
Author-X-Name-Last: Caliskan
Title: Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 130-134
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 01
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Author-Name: Galit Ailon
Author-X-Name-First: Galit
Author-X-Name-Last: Ailon
Title: Out of time: the temporal limits of coronavirus-inspired solidarity with workers
Abstract: 
 Researchers note that cultural images of possible economic futures are to a great extent rooted in the frames of thinking of the present. But not all present frames of thinking yield such images; some are excluded from our sense of what the future can be. Analyzing how the Wall Street Journal referred to workers at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, this study identifies such a frame—a solidarity frame—and reveals discursive formations that limited its temporal scope. The analysis shows that the extension of economic solidarity into the future imaginary was discursively hindered at the very same time such solidarity was expressed, and unravels a complex politics of time in the constitution of economic futures. Its findings further our understanding of the discursive processes that limit the effects of crises on transformative imaginaries.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 112-127
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
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Author-Name: Sungyong Ahn
Author-X-Name-First: Sungyong
Author-X-Name-Last: Ahn
Title: ‘Take Care of Stray Cats’: biopolitical life ethics and its cosmopolitical countermethod
Abstract: 
 The current regime of biopolitics is characterized by its advanced capability of communicating life as a fact to be optimized through its biomedical and bio-capitalist apparatuses. Seoul Metropolitan Government’s launch of its new community platform, ‘Take Care of Stray Cats’, in 2014 was an attempt to apply this biopolitical optimization of life to the condition of the city’s stray cat lives. Indispensable for the success of this platform was the participation of individual cat lovers, who were then asked to work as citizen geo-taggers to convert the physical presences of stray cats into the markers on its map app so that other geo-tagged corporate and governmental apparatuses, such as veterinary clinics, cat shelters, and feeding and resting areas could communicate about their presences. So, some cat lovers’ petition against the platform that led to its early shutdown in 2015 has been criticized as revealing their ignorance of the ethical and communitarian rationale of the platform. This paper, on the other hand, focuses on a different ontology of life on which the cat lovers’ everyday caring practices were based and how its care for the cats’ responsiveness, rather than simple geo-taggable facts, evolved into their ontological politics as the countermethod to biopolitics.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 1-16
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2098516
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Author-Name: Miao Li
Author-X-Name-First: Miao
Author-X-Name-Last: Li
Title: Peiwan: the cruel optimism of China’s online ‘play companions’
Abstract: 
 In late capitalism, the whole of society metamorphoses into an articulation of production and social relations turn into the relations of production (Tronti 2013 [1962]), leading to increasingly diffuse distinctions between leisure and work. China’s immense e-sports industry supports related platforms such as Bixin, where users can hire online peiwans (play companions). These peiwans chat with players during gameplay, praising them for their victories, and (especially for male peiwans) demonstrate better gameplay techniques. As a form of ‘cruel optimism’ (Berlant 2011), however, such companionship promises fun and seemingly easy money, but it remains untenable in the long run because it takes a heavy toll on the peiwans’ physical and mental well-being. Bixin lightens this burden by informing peiwans of how it ranks their online fame. This revelation suggests that algorithms can be known and knowable if the company aspires to a short-term boost in revenues, but peiwans ultimately highlight the uncertainties that continue to plague China’s e-sports industry.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 97-111
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
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Author-Name: Ivan V. Small
Author-X-Name-First: Ivan V.
Author-X-Name-Last: Small
Title: ‘Driving is terrifying’: auto-mobility horizons, projections and networks in Vietnam and ASEAN
Abstract: 
 This article examines the emerging infrastructure and market for automobiles in Vietnam as it transitions from a long history of motorbike mobility following Đổi Mới market renovation and peaking after the country’s accession to the World Trade Organization. Considering the context of recent free trade Agreements including the ASEAN Free Trade Area that are opening Vietnam’s markets to automobile imports and causing Vietnamese domestic car manufacturers to reconsider their production and marketing strategies, I argue that anticipations of impending transportation and mobility transformations are being undertaken on multiple yet intersecting levels. Understanding these intersections through the lens of stakeholder knowledges, projections and affects – ranging from those of potential automobile consumers to specialists and strategists laboring in future mobility and automotive design labs, offers insight into the agencies and contingencies of actors and actants participating within infrastructural networks that are reshaping mobility behaviors and options. Interventions to recuperate and connect the often atomized agents within modal mobility production assemblages will be critical to influence the infrastructural contours of transportation development in emerging markets like Vietnam, and promote a sustainability model that goes beyond technological innovation and upgrade consumption.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 62-80
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
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Author-Name: Allan Watson
Author-X-Name-First: Allan
Author-X-Name-Last: Watson
Author-Name: Joseph B. Watson
Author-X-Name-First: Joseph B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Watson
Author-Name: Lou Tompkins
Author-X-Name-First: Lou
Author-X-Name-Last: Tompkins
Title: Does social media pay for music artists? Quantitative evidence on the co-evolution of social media, streaming and live music
Abstract: 
 Recent commentaries on the music industry have emphasised the importance of social media in creating a monetisable fan base. However, no quantitative evidence yet exists regarding the correlation between social media follower numbers and artist income. Using a unique dataset of 255 artists signed to a large UK-based independent music publisher, we undertake growth curve modelling to provide a novel quantitative analysis of the correlation between following across major social media and streaming platforms and royalty income from music rights. Findings from our modelling suggest that while there is no correlation between numbers of followers on major social media platforms and an artist’s total royalty earnings, there is a strong correlation between numbers of followers and royalties from music streaming specifically. Set in the context of the high level of income precarity being experienced amongst independent artists, this finding suggests that a positive co-evolution is occurring between social media platforms and music streaming with potentially significant increases in artist royalty incomes resulting from increases in followers. Similarly, our modelling identifies a strong correlation between an artist’s following on streaming platforms and total live music royalties, supporting the notion of a positive co-evolution between streaming and live music incomes.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 32-46
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
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Author-Name: Emily Rosamond
Author-X-Name-First: Emily
Author-X-Name-Last: Rosamond
Title: Communities, cohorts and counter-speculators
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 294-297
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2169328
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Author-Name: Eva Iris Otto
Author-X-Name-First: Eva Iris
Author-X-Name-Last: Otto
Author-Name: Jonathan Holm Salka
Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan Holm
Author-X-Name-Last: Salka
Author-Name: Anders Blok
Author-X-Name-First: Anders
Author-X-Name-Last: Blok
Title: How app companies use GitHub: on modes of valuation in the digital attention economy
Abstract: 
 This paper contributes to political economic debates on the digital economy and software production by attending to the ‘hybridity’ of economic forms in digital markets. It adds to a nascent literature on hybridity by going close to the processes of code-production. Methodologically, we ambitiously combine in-situ ethnography with netnographic observation and qualitative interviews in a thickly multi-situated analysis of Danish proprietary app developers’ use of the code-repository Github commonly associated with free and open source software (F/OSS) projects. By attending to the situated practices of everyday coding within ‘app-centric media,’ we show how proprietary developers engage in hybrid practices that both align, but are also partly at odds with the overarching frame of commercial exchanges in which they operate. We argue that these practices form part of four boundary crossing, salient modes of valuation within Danish app-development, which at once destabilize and maintain traditional boundaries between proprietary and F/OSS code. While our analysis concerns a Danish app economy, it serves to demonstrate how hybridity beyond commercial exchange forms a fundamental part of both software materiality, practices and values within situated digital markets. This, thereby, is crucial to grasping the valuations and mechanisms at work furthering the digital attention economy.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 242-259
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2186916
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Author-Name: Aaron Shapiro
Author-X-Name-First: Aaron
Author-X-Name-Last: Shapiro
Title: Platform sabotage
Abstract: 
 Why are unprofitable gig work platforms so highly valued? Recent scholarship argues that gig platforms configure their data and computational infrastructure as financial assets, and that this speculative valuation offsets monetary losses on ride-hailing and food-delivery services. At the root of this valuation, however, is a narrative of efficiency and optimization that has little bearing on platforms’ on-the-ground operations. In practice, gig work platforms are remarkably inefficient. I build on Veblen's work on the business enterprise to argue that platforms’ financial exceptionalism owes to their unique capacity to strategically insert inefficiencies within and beyond the market encounters they broker, a pattern that I call ‘platform sabotage.’ The paper offers five vignettes of platform sabotage at work, illustrating how platforms target their strategic inefficiencies across various constituencies of market actors. The paper concludes with discussion of sabotage as a modality of platformization.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 203-220
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2159495
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Author-Name: Nora Naji
Author-X-Name-First: Nora
Author-X-Name-Last: Naji
Title: Decolonial Imaginings: Intersectional Conversations and Contestations
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 306-309
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
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Author-Name: Sean Johnson Andrews
Author-X-Name-First: Sean
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson Andrews
Title: Digital pirates: policing intellectual property in Brazil
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 300-303
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2169329
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Author-Name: Robin Porsfelt
Author-X-Name-First: Robin
Author-X-Name-Last: Porsfelt
Title: Reading the signs: on inferential semiotics and market imagination
Abstract: 
 The paper concerns a historical shift in the semiotic interpretation of financial data and how this shaped the imagination of the market. The investigation centres on the emergence of two systems of financial foresight, technical and fundamental analysis. It is demonstrated how both systems were synthesised around the codification of certain pieces of data as semiotic windows to the future which the experienced analyst could interpret but also gainfully narrate to others. This semiotic capacity to read and retell financial signs was an important feature in the construction of financial analysts’ professional reputability, and potential to convince through their predictions. The piece concludes with an outline of how the genealogy’s results can also inform recent scholarship on the formation of economic future expectations, the constitution of market ontologies, and the structure and power of financial analysts’ form of expertise.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 168-182
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
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Author-Name: Shayan Momin
Author-X-Name-First: Shayan
Author-X-Name-Last: Momin
Title: Lumpen utopia: money, livestreaming, and labor in emerging media worlds
Abstract: 
 Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Hengdian – China’s largest film and television studio—this article engages with recent scholarship regarding converging media and payment platforms. Thousands of unemployed people travel to Hengdian to find work as background actors in the production of historical dramas. But low wages lead many to seek monetized gifts by livestreaming as broke hengpiao, or Hengdian drifters, who encourage their audience to send them gifts and move to Hengdian to work in an alternative to waged-labor. Hengpiao construct alternative experiences of work through the animation of generic historical and livestreaming characters in exchange for payment. This alternative arises from performances, payments for activity, and gift exchanges that create contrasting chronotopes of labor, or mediated conceptions of time, space, and personhood entailed by payments for work. I describe the way these experiences are constructed and monetized in relation to revenue generation schemes that fuel the expansion of the platform economy. I argue that producing experiences of place, personhood, and class plays an important role in both creating payments that generate revenue for livestreaming platforms and forming the subjectivities of those who produce the platform economy.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 221-241
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2145337
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Author-Name: Leila Demarest
Author-X-Name-First: Leila
Author-X-Name-Last: Demarest
Title: They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 297-300
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2169326
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Author-Name: Taru Lehtokunnas
Author-X-Name-First: Taru
Author-X-Name-Last: Lehtokunnas
Author-Name: Olli Pyyhtinen
Author-X-Name-First: Olli
Author-X-Name-Last: Pyyhtinen
Title: Biowaste as fluid matter: valuing biogas and biofertilisers as assets in the Finnish biogas sector
Abstract: 
 In this article, we examine the effort of turning biowaste into an asset in the everyday practices of Finnish biogas plants. Drawing from social scientific waste studies as well as new materialist and posthumanist approaches, we approach biowaste as unruly, fluid matter inclined to leak and spill over and capable of affecting the possibilities of valuing it. Our analysis shows how biowaste resists the efforts to turn it into completely homogenous mass; how this mass has to be taken care of over the production process; and how it is not always clear whether the practices produce valuable assets or problematic excess. We argue that to better understand the possibilities for a transition towards a circular economy, it is important to acknowledge that the processing and valuing of waste does not offer complete control over it, but also requires careful alignment with waste material that does not always act as wished.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 277-293
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2169324
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Author-Name: Yupei Zhao
Author-X-Name-First: Yupei
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhao
Author-Name: Qiuxian Li
Author-X-Name-First: Qiuxian
Author-X-Name-Last: Li
Author-Name: Zhongxuan Lin
Author-X-Name-First: Zhongxuan
Author-X-Name-Last: Lin
Title: Toward cultural and creative industry: Chinese eSports through a business ecosystem lens
Abstract: 
 The field of electronic sports (eSports) is thriving worldwide but has received limited attention as a cultural and creative industry (CCI). This study is the first to employ three layers (productivity, robustness, and niche creation) of the business ecosystem (BE) to systematically examine the flourishing eSports sector and its development as a CCI-BE. It also maps out the dynamic and emerging stakeholders that have contributed to the eSports ecosystem. We conducted content analysis combined with observations, fifty interviews with elite stakeholders, and analysis of financial and investment data. We found that the development of eSports as a CCI-BE reflects great potential and precarity. First, the business agenda of the media conglomerate Tencent aligns with the ‘cultural confidence’ slogan proposed by the government, thus ensuring the robustness and stability of the eSports ecosystem. Second, municipal governments, local real estate developers, and eSports tournaments are increasingly interconnected and their contemporary business models and innovation activities in the eSports industry have co-evolved. Third, the role of real estate developers remains nascent without the ability to coordinate and co-evolve with the eSports value chain. eSports may provide a novel converging territory for contemporary cultural and creative industries/traits in the Chinese digital society.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 260-276
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2159494
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Author-Name: Gary Kafer
Author-X-Name-First: Gary
Author-X-Name-Last: Kafer
Title: Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 303-306
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
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X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2186921
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Author-Name: Bonwoo Koo
Author-X-Name-First: Bonwoo
Author-X-Name-Last: Koo
Author-Name: Joo-Hyoung Ji
Author-X-Name-First: Joo-Hyoung
Author-X-Name-Last: Ji
Title: Karl Polanyi’s theory of fictitious commodification as a cultural political economy of institutionalization
Abstract: 
 This paper aims to offer a new reading of Karl Polanyi’s political economy by reinterpreting and reconstructing his institutional analysis as a cultural political economy that critiques capitalism as a historically specific symbolic system. For this purpose, it will draw on his earlier concepts from the socialist calculation debate to reinterpret Polanyi’s theory of fictitious commodification. In particular, it will examine how Polanyi conceptualized the symbolic structure of capitalism as an institutional articulation of particular economic facts, accounting concepts, and economic theory. Polanyi not only critiques the intrinsically cultural nature of foundational categories of the capitalist market economy such as profits, factors of production, and fictitious commodities but also shows how the gap between these categories and ‘the reality of society’ eventually brings about crises and crisis tendencies expressed in the ‘double movement’ and the ‘self-protection of society’. In this sense, Polanyi is a critical cultural political economist with contemporary relevance for the analysis of capitalism as a historically specific symbolic system in which culture plays both constitutive and ideological roles.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 183-202
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2144413
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Author-Name: Candan Turkkan
Author-X-Name-First: Candan
Author-X-Name-Last: Turkkan
Title: Screening for eligibility: access and resistance in Istanbul’s food banks
Abstract: 
 Introduced in the 2000s as a component of social welfare reforms, the means test determines the eligibility of aid applicants based on previously set income categories. Replacing local committees that decided eligibility, this centralized and digitalized screening process rests on information infrastructures that are mostly invisible. This paper argues that the ways in which applicants contest the outcome of the means test, subvert the eligibility requirements, and go around the screening processes, make visible these otherwise-mostly invisible information infrastructures. Through a discussion of the contestations, subversions, and go-arounds applicants use (not always successfully) to receive emergency food relief from municipal food banks in Istanbul, the paper shows that these information infrastructures not only appear as if they are value-neutral and apolitical, but in so doing, they also serve as useful tools for obscuring who the actual decision makers are.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 151-167
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 03
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Author-Name: Karen Ho
Author-X-Name-First: Karen
Author-X-Name-Last: Ho
Title: Afterword of ‘Financial frontiers': towards conceptualizing finance that engages both power and contingency
Abstract: 
 The critical and interdisciplinary scholarship analyzing finance, and specifically the relationship between financialization and inequality, has ballooned over the past twenty years. The increasing power and influence of financial and investment values, practices, policies, and networks have worked to leverage existing inequalities and construct novel regimes of accumulation that have increased socioeconomic precarity and dismantled socioeconomic protections for most. This fraught and unequal landscape has reinvigorated scholarly research and discussion on the role of finance in capitalism and on finance's relationship to other historical processes of inequality. Not surprisingly, much of this work on finance has faced similar questions and pitfalls as the critical scholarship on capitalism, namely, how to represent, analyze, and account for finance's power and influence without over-empowering, totalizing, presuming, or rendering inevitable finance's ability to remake the world in its own image. This Afterword engages this quandary, arguing that a dual approach is necessary – one that simultaneously shows finance's local contingencies, historical specificities, and unexpected trajectories alongside an approach that demonstrates finance's catalyzation of longstanding unequal structures produced through racial capitalism and colonialism to intensify contemporary inequality.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 453-461
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2202678
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Author-Name: Luca Storti
Author-X-Name-First: Luca
Author-X-Name-Last: Storti
Title: Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 473-475
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2191647
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Author-Name: Gloria C. Pérez-Rivera
Author-X-Name-First: Gloria C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Pérez-Rivera
Title: Compounding financial frontiers: capital seeds and seeds for capital
Abstract: 
 More than fifty years of civil war has left about eight million internally displaced people in Colombia, with millions struggling to make a living in new precarious urban spaces. Illicit narcoparamilitary groups, also emergent from the conflict, have dispossessed millions from their land and become vital moneylenders that enable displaced people to work and subsist in cities while profiting from them. Using the metaphor of compounding, I suggest thinking of financial frontiers as consecutive processes of expansive economic growth where one asset or principal (land dispossession and rural displacement in the Colombian case) originates exponential profits over time, benefiting narcoparamilitary groups. Such exponential gain happens gradually in circular financial transactions. Each transaction produces extra profits and opens possibilities for new financial transactions that further extract value from displacement and land dispossession. This approach helps us understand the social relations that permit capital accumulation over long periods, across geographic spaces, through political changes, and through economic shifts that determine the development of novel forms of financial power in Colombia and beyond.This article proposes a concept of compounding financial frontiers to grasp how new spaces for financial value extraction emerge and how capitalism finds the conditions for its reproduction.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 350-362
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2189145
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Author-Name: Geoffrey Rathgeb Aung
Author-X-Name-First: Geoffrey Rathgeb
Author-X-Name-Last: Aung
Title: The frontier in heterogeneous time: finance, temporality, and an economic zone on hold
Abstract: 
 This article follows the history of the Dawei special economic zone (SEZ), a port, industrial zone, and logistics project located in Myanmar’s southern borderlands. Suspended in 2013 due to financing shortfalls and public criticism, the Dawei project’s implementation has been far from straightforward. This article dwells on the non-linear temporality of the project, focusing on the problem of financing. It is there, above all, that project proponents continually entertain both prospects of progress and frustrating obstacles. This story of financing shows, I argue, that frontiers are temporal projects, constituted by fits and starts, slowdowns and accelerations, and periods of deferral and delay. Beginning with the project’s origins and moving through recent attempts to revive it, I foreground three moments of labor in and of time – three timescapes, in short – which I describe in terms of futurity and deferral, boom and bust, and suspension and renewal. The complex temporality of the project raises doubts about the notion that capitalist modernity consists of a singular, abstract, homogeneous time – defined by acceleration, speed, or time–space compression. On this frontier, rather, the inter-mingling of multiple times suggests not vestiges of the premodern, but the heterogeneous timescapes – unstable, unruly, uneven – that compose capitalist modernity itself.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 377-391
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2098517
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Author-Name: Julia Elyachar
Author-X-Name-First: Julia
Author-X-Name-Last: Elyachar
Title: Relational finance: Ottoman debt, financialization, and the problem of the semi-civilized
Abstract: 
 How might archival fragments of an economic anthropologist of post-Ottoman Egypt speak to current debates about finance and financialization? Literature in critical financial studies often reads as if financialization began in 1970 and moves outward from the global North like a mobile frontier remaking the world in its image. But if there is anything like a ‘frontier of finance,' it moved from East to West long before the Industrial Revolution. Through readings of ‘ethnographers of finance’ in archives of the Ottoman Public Debt Administration, I disrupt common views of finance as an intrinsic agent of extraction, colonialism, and imperialism to show how finance entails multiple and overlapping processes that make debt valuable. From such a perspective, attention to finance and revaluation in the late Ottoman Empire can invigorate debates about financialization more broadly, including in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis in the United States.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 323-336
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 05
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Author-Name: Andrea Ballestero
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea
Author-X-Name-Last: Ballestero
Title: Trusts at the financial frontier: the flickering forms of property, water, and governance
Abstract: 
 Financialization is often understood as an expansive, spreading wave, coming from an energetic, global center of finance and creating new financial frontiers at its edges. Instead of presuming this expansive wave, I show how financial frontiers are flickering arrangements. Rather than spreading continuously, financial frontiers come into being, go dormant, and reignite with intensity. This temporal dynamic becomes apparent when we trace the specific techno-legal devices that proliferate at financial frontiers. I focus on the financial trust, an instrument that, despite its prominence in financial circles, has received comparatively little attention beyond legal scholarship. I chart three historical moments in Costa Rica when the trust appears as a frontier device opening the nature of property, enabling the transformation of ecological processes into sources of rent, and redrawing relations between public and private actors interested in water protection. At these flickering frontiers, the trust does much more than channel and shield financial wealth. As a device, the trust makes fundamental assumptions about social life explicit and opens possibilities for some actors to translate those assumptions into social forms.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 423-438
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2176344
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Author-Name: Ariel Wilkis
Author-X-Name-First: Ariel
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilkis
Title: Viviana Zelizer’s work as inspiration for a public sociology of money
Abstract: 
 Viviana Zelizer’s work was welcomed in Latin America, where new generations of economic sociologists were reworking the study agenda of the discipline. The recent history of our subdiscipline in the region cannot be told without taking into account Zelizer’s contributions to the analysis of markets, finance, consumption, money, intimacy, and economic relations, among many others. This article provides an overview of my research over the past fifteen years and explores the impact Zelizer’s work has had on my work style as a sociologist, the questions I have formulated, the objects of research I chose, the concepts I have developed, and ideas that have resonated across the field. I will show the connections between the economic and social cycles in Argentina, different periods in the history of sociology, and the Zelizer’s ideas of money. Different moments of my career as a money sociologist, part of the ‘new’ generation of economist sociology in Latin America whose work draws on Zelizer’s ideas, also figure into the analysis. I show how Zelizer’s work connects with the times, circulates internationally, builds academic communities, enables new interpretations, forges previously unexplored research paths, and contributes to a public sociology of money.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 462-472
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2189148
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Author-Name: Horacio Ortiz
Author-X-Name-First: Horacio
Author-X-Name-Last: Ortiz
Title: Financial frontiers: borders, conversions, enclosures
Abstract: 
 Based on fieldwork carried out with professionals working in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity cross-border transactions in Shanghai, this article proposes to study how the financial industry is co-constituted with power relations outside of it. In these transactions, financial professionals combine standardized valuation and investment methods with imaginaries of states, economies and cultural and national identity, differentiated in terms of borders. These imaginaries propose various moral and political meanings about where money should go and what should be the role of the financial industry in the process. These are practices of ‘conversion’, where professionals maintain these different moral and political meanings as incommensurable but make them interdependent by bringing them together in exchanges of shares for money. This contributes to enclosures, where the meaning of the objects exchanged, for instance companies working in environmental protection and health, can only be articulated in terms of the power relations that the financial industry brings together in the transactions. Studying how financial imaginaries about value, investors and markets are co-constituted with other power relations contributes to understanding the roles of the financial industry in the production of global hierarchies.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 439-452
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2176341
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Author-Name: Jorge Núñez
Author-X-Name-First: Jorge
Author-X-Name-Last: Núñez
Title: A financial frontier for Catalonia: nationalism in times of austerity
Abstract: 
 During a period of pro-independence mass mobilizations and diminishing financial confidence, the government of Catalonia attached a traditional idea of the rural household to its market in public debt. This article analyzes how nationalistic understandings of household are mobilized to support the struggle for independence and promote austerity policies. It also examines how an ethos of Catalan kinship drives the expansion of the household frontier of finance into the political imagination of the nation. The ethnographic story of this article is about a bond that transferred 30 percent of the region’s public liabilities from institutional investors to Catalan households between 2010 and 2014. I trace out the commercial life of this bond from government offices to bank branches to a small rural town near Barcelona. This approach to financialization shows that the reconstitution of the household as another sphere of market relations has been reoriented after the 2008 financial crisis. My main argument suggests that the financialization of the household in Spain facilitates the making of a financial frontier for Catalonia in which widespread fiscal discontent is transformed into political capital.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 409-422
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 05
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Author-Name: Hannah Appel
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Author-X-Name-Last: Appel
Title: Pan African capital? Banks, currencies, and imperial power
Abstract: 
 U.S. and Europe-based banks and international financial institutions including the IMF have been central to critical accounts of Africa’s place in global capitalism. And yet since 2008 these institutions have been in retreat on the continent, partially replaced by Pan African Banks. Putting ethnographic work with Africa-based finance professionals into dialogue with heterodox economic thinking on banks and currency sovereignty, I argue that we must not only analyze the geographic shift in where banks are headquartered and who owns them, but also generate empirical and theoretical shifts in what a bank is, what it does, and to what effect, especially in terms of the relationship between currencies, social violence, and imperial and racial power.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 392-408
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2177322
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Author-Name: Andrea Ballestero
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea
Author-X-Name-Last: Ballestero
Author-Name: Andrea Muehlebach
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea
Author-X-Name-Last: Muehlebach
Author-Name: Gloria Pérez-Rivera
Author-X-Name-First: Gloria
Author-X-Name-Last: Pérez-Rivera
Title: What is a financial frontier?
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 311-322
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2176345
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Author-Name: Andrea Muehlebach
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea
Author-X-Name-Last: Muehlebach
Title: Contract as frontier device, or, the political publics of water infrastructures
Abstract: 
 This article explores the contract as a mediating device at the financial frontier. Focusing on contracts signed and breached in two instances across 150 years in Berlin, Germany, I argue that contracts are frontier devices that are both durable and volatile in that they seek to bind together two unlike – even incommensurable – contracting parties into formally equal partnerships. Contracts thus seek to enforce certainty and predictability into potentially risky environments and relations and attempt to fix futures in specific ways. I show that the recurrent strategy of extracting value from water infrastructures through contractually regulated private debt financing must be accompanied by an analysis of the intense politics of public secrecy and disclosure that erupt around the contract as labile frontier device, over and over again.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 363-376
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2176342
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Author-Name: Michael Ralph
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Ralph
Title: Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing
Abstract: 
 This article uses original archival research to revise the scholarly consensus on convict leasing to demonstrate that it first emerges on US soil in Kentucky’s eighteenth century frontier society (rather than in the Deep South in the wake of the 13th amendment) and that it began in a prison filled with incarcerated white people (rather than as a way to keep African Americans trapped in a condition analogous to slavery). Convict leasing was born on the frontier – in the hazy netherworld between slavery and freedom, between British colonial geographies and the territories settlers seized from indigenous peoples to establish a sovereign republic.I argue that convict leasing constituted a novel financial frontier that tethered slaveholding to new strategies for adjudicating debt to new lease arrangements for private firms. More specifically, I argue that convict leasing was inaugurated in the US in Kentucky because of its unique relationship to three related developments: the birth of the domestic slave trade, the debut of incarceration as a pervasive mode of punishment, and the plight of debtors in the aftermath of the American Revolution.This article demonstrates how Kentucky moved from being foremost understood as a geographic frontier – the expanding boundary of a new republic – to a financial frontier as the westward march of slave coffles prepared Kentucky to launch a hemp industry that was uniquely profitable. The desperate plight of debtors in the context of booming hemp profits made them especially vulnerable to Joel Scott’s innovative model for extracting profit from prison labor based on techniques African workers had developed for transforming a recalcitrant plant into an economic marvel. In this context, incarcerated white people were subjected to a labor regimen that had heretofore largely been restricted to enslaved black workers. This geographic frontier and financial frontier ushered in new legal frontiers, including the threshold marking a shift from colonial subjects to incarcerated citizens.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 337-349
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2216214
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Author-Name: Cameron Tonkinwise
Author-X-Name-First: Cameron
Author-X-Name-Last: Tonkinwise
Title: The waste generated by waste avoidance
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 640-647
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2242871
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Author-Name: Ruth Lane
Author-X-Name-First: Ruth
Author-X-Name-Last: Lane
Title: Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 615-621
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2229352
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Author-Name: Stephen Healy
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Author-X-Name-Last: Healy
Author-Name: Abby Mellick Lopes
Author-X-Name-First: Abby
Author-X-Name-Last: Mellick Lopes
Title: Postcapitalist composting: reverse logistics and organic waste, designing for diverse livelihoods
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 622-630
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2241194
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Author-Name: Rolien Hoyng
Author-X-Name-First: Rolien
Author-X-Name-Last: Hoyng
Title: Models in the circular economy: envisioning waste’s potential
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 648-654
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2240341
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Author-Name: Geoffrey Hobbis
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Author-X-Name-Last: Hobbis
Author-Name: Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis
Author-X-Name-First: Stephanie Ketterer
Author-X-Name-Last: Hobbis
Title: Digitizing other markets: lessons from the Bush Internet of Island Melanesia
Abstract: 
 Digital markets are regularly equated with digital capitalism. However, markets are also central features of longstanding other economic systems, such as the bush markets of Malaita, Solomon Islands, where saltwater and bush people have traded with each other for at least seven hundred years, if not longer. This article interrogates the digitization of this bush market system based on classically-conceived long-term ethnographic fieldwork that aims to develop a better empirical understanding of possibilities for diverse economic systems and markets in the digital age. We identify continuities between Solomon Islands-centric Facebook ‘buy and sell’ groups and bush markets and demonstrate how these continuities strengthen other economic systems and values in the country. Despite their avid use of Facebook, Solomon Islanders are able to resist the industrial-capitalism embedded in platform design and to reaffirm social networks and a broader reciprocal moral economy.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 559-575
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2225513
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Author-Name: Josh Lepawsky
Author-X-Name-First: Josh
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Title: Thinking with waste to know the economic
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 587-593
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 07
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Author-Name: Kate Scardifield
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Author-Name: Nahum McLean
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Author-X-Name-Last: McLean
Title: How to be tidal: designing with waste streams as matter in flow and matter of value
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 604-614
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 07
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Author-Name: Lana Swartz
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Author-Name: Vivian Afi Abui Dzokoto
Author-X-Name-First: Vivian Afi Abui
Author-X-Name-Last: Dzokoto
Title: COVID relief as ‘dangerous money’ for Black business owners
Abstract: 
 The present study examines Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) experiences of a sample of Black business owners in a mid-sized city amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores how Black business owners made sense of the Paycheck Protection Program, and how they came to regard it as an untrustworthy source of economic relief or even a dangerous trap. Less than half of the small business owners we interviewed applied for PPP, and those who did, did so with great trepidation. We find that experiences of Black business owners with the PPP are informed by the longstanding barriers that Black businesses face accessing financing from financial institutions.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 477-494
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 07
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Author-Name: Gay Hawkins
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Author-X-Name-Last: Hawkins
Title: Reuse value: economies and philosophies of durability
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 579-586
Issue: 4
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Author-Name: Delphine Rumo
Author-X-Name-First: Delphine
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Title: Grounded circularity: the livelihoods of surplus clay
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 631-639
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2246990
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Author-Name: Gay Hawkins
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Author-X-Name-Last: Hawkins
Author-Name: Stephen Healy
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen
Author-X-Name-Last: Healy
Title: Waste/economy/ecology: redrawing the circular economy
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 576-578
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2240349
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Author-Name: Quentin Chance
Author-X-Name-First: Quentin
Author-X-Name-Last: Chance
Author-Name: Frédéric Goulet
Author-X-Name-First: Frédéric
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Author-Name: Ronan Le Velly
Author-X-Name-First: Ronan
Author-X-Name-Last: Le Velly
Title: How the living shapes markets: accounting for the action of biological entities in market agencing
Abstract: 
 Market sociology research has accounted amply for the importance of material devices in shaping markets. In contrast, the influence of biological entities (such as parasites, soil, and food) on market agencing has barely been considered. This article shows the relevance of covering this matter specifically. To do so, the authors refer to their analyses of the production and sales practices of organic vegetable market actors in France. Based on descriptions of four situations, they show that the biological processes involved in the cultivated ecosystems and agricultural produce itself influence the market agencing processes that these actors carry out. Based on these first observations, they propose four generic statements that clarify what considering the action of biological entities involves in terms of theory and identify avenues for future research.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 529-543
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2199422
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Author-Name: James W. Williams
Author-X-Name-First: James W.
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Title: Charitable assets: social outcomes, financial values, and the new, nonprofit funding regime
Abstract: 
 Amidst growing signs of inequality, poverty, and marginalization, there have been calls for a new approach to funding the social sector organizations tasked with addressing these challenges. Rather than paying for services, governments and philanthropists are being encouraged to fund programs based on their ‘outcomes.’ This paper explores this growing movement around ‘outcomes-based funding’ (OBF) suggesting that outcomes in this context embody a distinctly financial logic and reflect an effort to turn the work of charities and nonprofits into a type of pseudo asset. The paper teases out these dynamics and their implications based on one particular form of OBF, the social impact bond, a financial instrument which uses private capital to fund social programs and calculates returns based on program outcomes. While SIBs have struggled as a market, the operations underlying these projects and informing the production of outcomes as investable assets have been carried forward into non-SIB work informing flows of public and philanthropic capital and embodying the practices of the larger OBF ecosystem. As a window into the new, outcomes-based nonprofit funding regime, the paper offers a unique lens and set of critical tools for exploring the relationship between capital, the social sector, and poverty governance.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 513-528
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 07
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Author-Name: Tsvetelina Hristova
Author-X-Name-First: Tsvetelina
Author-X-Name-Last: Hristova
Title: The politics of mediation: subjectivity, value and power in the digital grid of Aadhaar
Abstract: 
 Digital data infrastructures act as mediating technologies that shape and manipulate flows and visibilities. Focusing on the case of the Indian digital ID Aadhaar, this article proposes a theory of mediation as a conceptual framework for understanding the role of digital technology in projects for datafication of state governance and national economy. In 2016, the Indian biometric ID Aadhaar was instrumentalised in a nation-wide move towards digital monetary transfers, a campaign launched under the banner of ‘demonetisation’. The digital state ID was integrated into Know Your Customer (KYC) systems of financial identification complicating government practices of recording and subjectivation. This process, during which government discourse explicitly drew parallels between political subjectivation and financial control, indicates the growing significance of the digital medium in shaping the relationship between states and their subjects. The notion of mediation proposed here addresses the mutual articulation between monetary transfers, practices of government recording and data valorisation in a context where state projects for digitalisation are increasingly integrated in global digital networks and data platforms.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 544-558
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2216220
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Author-Name: Markus Wernli
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Author-Name: Kam-Fai Chan
Author-X-Name-First: Kam-Fai
Author-X-Name-Last: Chan
Title: Provocation Soil Trust: designing economies inside an interspecies world of feeders
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 594-603
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2239823
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Author-Name: Soo-Young Kim
Author-X-Name-First: Soo-Young
Author-X-Name-Last: Kim
Title: Poor counts as viable accounts: numbers, forecasting, and routinization in Greece
Abstract: 
 After a revision to a projected deficit figure in 2009 touched off deep recession and austerity, much scrutiny and skepticism focused on the role of economic forecasts, statistics, and experts in the nearly decade-long ‘Greek crisis.’ This article takes an ethnographic approach to macroeconomic forecasting, examining it both as a process through which numbers come to exert profound effects and a charged object of popular concern for the ways in which this happens. It asks how to reconcile the lack of popular faith in forecasts with their ability to persist as objects of attention. Through tracking the making and circulation of forecasts, I answer this question by demonstrating what numbers do. Specifically, I argue that the fundamental work of forecasting consists in how it renders numbers routine means of thinking about the economy and its future. I show how numbers carry out this work through their ability to at once describe and represent, such that contention over descriptions of the economy nevertheless routinizes representations of it. This argument points to a type of performativity that occurs through routinization and it presents an understanding of the multivalence of numbers that can inform critical approaches to quantification, objectification, and expertise.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 495-512
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 07
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Author-Name: K. Charles Omotayo
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Author-X-Name-Last: Charles Omotayo
Title: ‘Orunmila needs a new house’: religious fundraising and the revitalisation of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo in southwest Nigeria
Abstract: 
 In the last three decades, neo-traditional religious groups in Nigeria have continued to (re-)emerge and expand, despite their earlier inhibition by the increased dominance of Christianity, Islam and secular-modernist values. One such group is Ijo Orunmila Adulawo (African Congregation of Orunmila Devotees), originally established in 1934 as an umbrella organisation for traditional worshippers. Based on fieldwork in the Ikenne branch, I examine the innovative fundraising methods that the group has adopted since 1992 in pursuit of the construction of a modern iledi (temple), and the debates they sparked among members, some of whom felt they reflected Christian or foreign, rather than traditional Yoruba ethics and values. A closer look at the dynamics of the group’s fundraising practices, however, suggests they have been shaped within a moral-economic framework oriented toward the flourishing of what the group takes to be traditional religion and the assertion of related values. The article shows how economic practices not only reflect but are an important part of the politics of value negotiated by neo-traditional religious groups like Ijo Orunmila as they have sought to establish and maintain the authority and relevance that has driven their growth in contemporary Nigeria.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 733-750
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2226988
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Author-Name: Matthew D. Milligan
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew D.
Author-X-Name-Last: Milligan
Title: Monastic Buddhist asset capitalization in ancient Sri Lanka
Abstract: 
 This article examines asset accumulation and capitalization in early Sri Lankan Buddhism from the 1st c. BCE until the 5th c. CE using financial records inscribed into stone. The interplay between religious and economic practices shaped early Buddhist culture in Sri Lanka. The collected material corpus suggests that Buddhism's growth on the island was closely connected to its corporate monastic ability to fundraise and acquire non-fungible assets with resources that could be sold for profit. In the early centuries of this strategy – which monastics may have exploited to avoid censure for violating rules regarding voluntary poverty and moderation – haphazard and inconsistent linguistic expressions indicate an unfamiliarity with the practice. However, as the centuries passed, the Buddhist saṃgha developed coherent and consistent language to express the nuance of capitalization, including uniform terminologies for profit. Capitalizing assets like land became a standard way to supplement and perhaps supplant less efficient fundraising practices like door-to-door collections. As Buddhism spread to the rest of Asia, this phenomenon spread. This article demonstrates that tracing language development is a powerful method of exploring the early Buddhist corporate firm's deliberate and powerful economic engagement.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 682-697
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2135576
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Author-Name: Marlène Benquet
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Author-X-Name-Last: Benquet
Title: Accumulation mode and political interests of alternative finance and asset management: are they the same actors? Do they want the same thing?
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 778-786
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2246993
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Author-Name: Cecilia Rikap
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Title: Brexit’s hidden network of power: Comment of “Alt-Finance”
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 768-772
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
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X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2186923
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Author-Name: Matthew Mitchell
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Author-X-Name-Last: Mitchell
Title: Regulating chance: Buddhist temple lotteries, government oversight, and anti-Buddhist discourse in early modern Japan
Abstract: 
 This article outlines the history of lotteries in Japan, why and how Buddhist temples used them to raise funds for temple repairs in the early modern period (c. 1600–1868), and the larger moral-economic debates in which they became embroiled. It shows that while lotteries are worth examining for their importance to the maintenance of Buddhist temples in the early modern period, their study also provides a window into the competing values and interests at play in Japan in the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. This affected how and when temples could use lotteries to raise funds and would eventually come to inform how modern scholars came to view Buddhism in early modern Japan. Attention to this kind of ‘politics of value,’ I suggest, might also provide useful insights for both historical and historiographical studies of religious fundraising in other times and places.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 716-732
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2120053
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Author-Name: Gwyn McClelland
Author-X-Name-First: Gwyn
Author-X-Name-Last: McClelland
Title: Valuing the Urakami Cathedral after the atomic bombing: fundraising and social rupture in Nagasaki
Abstract: 
 After the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, the ruined Urakami Cathedral, situated prominently on a hilltop close to ground zero, became an iconic site. It represented the rupture experienced by a totally devastated community and landscape in an irradiated environment at the end of World War II. Yet, beginning in 1958, the ruins of the building were razed and the cathedral reconstructed – an act that has remained controversial in the Japanese public sphere, not least due to partial reliance on American funding. This article examines the competing claims of value surrounding these Cathedral ruins and their erasure among the Catholic community and the non-Catholic population of Nagasaki and the politics of patronage that this involved. It draws on interviews to access the voices of atomic bombing survivors in the Catholic community, marginalised in the Japanese public discourse. These give insight into an alternative communal understanding of the cathedral tied into a much older narrative of persecution, poverty, resistance, and renewal. I argue that different perspectives on the value of the Cathedral and its ruins reveal the social rupture foundational to and concomitant with competing value claims, and their interrelated political, economic, and religious dynamics.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 751-767
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2120052
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Author-Name: Jane Caple
Author-X-Name-First: Jane
Author-X-Name-Last: Caple
Author-Name: Sarah Roddy
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Roddy
Title: The stakes of religious fundraising: economic transition and religious resurgence in Irish Catholicism and Tibetan Buddhism
Abstract: 
 What impacts does the transition from a land-based to predominantly cash-based economy have on the fundraising strategies of religious institutions? What new opportunities does it present and what moral debates and dilemmas does it prompt? What is at stake? This article explores these questions through examples from two very different contexts: the Irish Catholic Church in the nineteenth century and Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in late twentieth century to early twenty-first century Amdo (northeast Tibet). In both cases, political and religious oppression, poverty, and crisis presaged periods of both religious resurgence and significant economic shift that had profound effects on religious funding models, as well as the debates they generated. By bringing these cases into dialogue, this article identifies common themes and patterns beyond the specificities of religious tradition and cultural milieu that usually frame analyses of religion and economy. Building on these insights, we suggest a framework for conceptualising religious fundraising that explains why it is often a site of contestation where ideas about religion and economy are (re)produced and played out, without assuming that religion and economy are separate ontological categories.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 698-715
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2098514
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Author-Name: Jane Caple
Author-X-Name-First: Jane
Author-X-Name-Last: Caple
Author-Name: Sarah Roddy
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Roddy
Title: Histories of religious fundraising: religion, economy, and value in global perspective: introduction
Abstract: 
 This special issue brings together a series of articles addressing histories of religious fundraising across a diverse range of religious and geographical contexts and historical periods. This guest editors’ introduction situates the issue within the broader literature on religion and economy, reflecting on the new perspectives that the study of religious financing can offer, particularly when considered across different cultures and times. We then highlight and discuss two major themes emerging from the articles: the mutual interplay between religious fundraising strategies, their ethics, and changing economic thought and practice; and the politics of value at stake in histories of religious fundraising. We finish by drawing attention to the potential for religious fundraising as a concerted field of study and some possible avenues of future research.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 655-664
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2085145
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Author-Name: Andrew Short
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Short
Title: ‘Investments in the Kingdom of Christ’: home missionary fundraising and investor capitalism in the late-nineteenth-century USA
Abstract: 
 This article examines the issuance of ‘certificates of stock’ in return for financial donations towards missionary chapels and schoolhouses in the late nineteenth-century American Presbyterian home missionary enterprise. No dividend or interest payment was made by the missionary agency. Instead, fundraisers explained that the ‘dividends’ on these ‘investments’ were spiritual, promising donors an improvement in their spiritual lives now, and potentially even greater ‘returns’ in the hereafter. The emergence of this method of raising funds is an example of how American religious organisations have used the methods of the commercial world in their fundraising strategies. However, as this article shows, it also sheds light on the mutual entanglement of religion and economy, values, and finance in the spheres of both the market and the church. At a time when many American Protestants were morally ambiguous about investor capitalism, the emergence and development of this mode of fundraising represented one of the ways investor capitalism was legitimised as a necessary, and respectable, economic activity for Protestant believers in a modern capitalist economy. At the same time, it also reflected a broader reframing of financial donations as worship within the Presbyterian Church.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 665-681
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 09
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Author-Name: Théo Bourgeron
Author-X-Name-First: Théo
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Title: Response to reviewers: updating Alt-Finance with the literatures on patrimonialism, asset manager capitalism, and blocs
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 786-791
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
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Author-Name: Olivier Godechot
Author-X-Name-First: Olivier
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Title: UK’s Eighteenth Brumaire
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 772-775
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 09
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Author-Name: Felix Bühlmann
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Title: Thinking big about finance
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 776-778
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
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Author-Name: Aaron Z. Pitluck
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Title: The interpretive and relational work of financial innovation: a resemblance of assurance in Islamic finance
Abstract: 
 What social forces shape the trajectory of novel, moralized forms of finance such as social finance, green finance, or Islamic banking and finance? More broadly, how do agents mobilize arguments and organize each other to create any form of financial innovation? This article addresses both questions by contributing an ethnography of a novel financial innovation pseudonymously named Sukuk Illumination, an internationally traded moral alternative to a corporate bond. This article’s findings both elaborate and subsume existing functionalist and critical explanations of financial innovation. The central argument is that we can better understand what causes financial innovation and the trajectory that new innovations take when we conceptualize each financial instrument as a polysemic cultural object materialized in legal contracts and institutionalized work practices and created by parties with asymmetric power to define the new object. Financial innovation necessarily involves multiple parties in a financial service commodity chain with multivalent motivations co-producing and hotly debating interpretations of the prospective financial instrument while simultaneously creating, refashioning, and differentiating existing relationships with one another. Sukuk Illumination demonstrates both the potential and constraints for creating new moralized financial instruments and for transforming financial systems.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 793-811
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Víctor Ávila Torres
Author-X-Name-First: Víctor
Author-X-Name-Last: Ávila Torres
Title: Plasticine Music – or the intimate social life of cultural objects
Abstract: 
 Why do you value recorded popular music? How does popular music sticks to our lives through time? This article presents the concept of Plasticine Music to explore the way music becomes an assemblage through our individual embodied history with it. The concept intends to expand on recent developments on the value of recorded popular music outside capital and production systems. By following scholarship from Music Sociology and Feminist Materialism it invites to consider how pieces of music become part of our biographies through emotional forces, embodied actions and affects that transform the way we relate to music; the music change and we change with it. It focuses on the materiality of music with modifiable qualities, flexibility, resistance and non fixity, which lead to multiple new shapes. Plasticine music is a form of changeling traditional conceptions of meaning and cultural consumption, as well as considering the affective force of cultural objects.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 908-920
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Eugenia Stamboliev
Author-X-Name-First: Eugenia
Author-X-Name-Last: Stamboliev
Title: Digital working lives: workers autonomy and the gig economy
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 923-925
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2284319
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Author-Name: Sydney Halleman
Author-X-Name-First: Sydney
Author-X-Name-Last: Halleman
Title: Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 921-923
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2246992
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Author-Name: Loïc Riom
Author-X-Name-First: Loïc
Author-X-Name-Last: Riom
Title: ‘A video or a flat fee?’ on the performances of concert fees
Abstract: 
 While the literature on musical employment is growing, little research has been conducted on how concert fees are calculated, discussed, or contested. This article aims to explore these questions by drawing on the in-depth study of one new actor within the live music business: Sofar Sounds. Since 2009, Sofar Sounds has been organizing ‘secret concerts’ in ‘unconventional spaces.’ Between 2017 and 2019, the company has been publicly criticized on several occasions for its fee policy. I analyze these controversies over musicians’ remuneration as a critical site to understand the kind of economization performed within music industries. I argue that taking fees seriously allows for considering calculation of musical remuneration as a world-making operation. I identify three different and competing ways to calculate musicians’ fee: ‘appointment-fee,’ ‘co-production-fee,’ and ‘compensation-fee.’ I show that these calculations are performative achievements that contribute to the defining of what a musical performance is and of the actors who take part in it. In conclusion, I argue that the controversies about Sofar Sounds’ musicians’ fee policy cannot be understood only from a market and commodity point of view. The company uses ‘exposure’ to attach musicians and to strengthen its own (financial) value.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 867-885
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Maxim Tvorun-Dunn
Author-X-Name-First: Maxim
Author-X-Name-Last: Tvorun-Dunn
Author-Name: Nathalie Pascaru
Author-X-Name-First: Nathalie
Author-X-Name-Last: Pascaru
Title: Environmentalism polluted: consumerism and complicity in Studio Ghibli’s media mix
Abstract: 
 The proliferation of franchise-driven consumption has created a social paradigm where branded symbols are overproduced across an endless array of consumer products. As a paradigm dependent on generating ever-more growth, we argue that transmedia production facilitates social modes which are inherently damaging to the environment. This is accomplished through an examination of the media mix of Japanese animation firm Studio Ghibli, who despite praise from critics and educators for their deeply nuanced environmentalist themes, have heavily commodified their works through plastic merchandise and tourist destinations. While this research demonstrates the studio had already broadly adopted media mix promotion by the early aughts, following the studio's 2014 hiatus in film production, we show a distinct rise in transmedia communication and production of goods made of non-renewable resources. In light of this, we discuss the commodification of Ghibli's themes as a product of recuperation, adding to discussions of capitalism's penchant for co-opting its opposition. Of this instance, we examine the industrial dynamics that led to this specific increase, the cultural-economic paradigms of media mix that frame commodification as a natural extension of texts – despite dissonant values – and consider how contemporary media ecologies may offer any hope of imagining genuinely environmentally conscious societies.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 886-907
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Victor Potier
Author-X-Name-First: Victor
Author-X-Name-Last: Potier
Title: Prototyping to turn policy into design. (Co)modification of a serious game in the French education system
Abstract: 
 This paper studies the marketing of a French serious game, Factory Game, whose development pathway highlights the technical, political, economic and professional implications of modernising the education system. The article conducts a sociological analysis of prototyping throughout the game’s commodification process. Focusing on the French educational technology market, it describes the social, political, economic and professional motives for using prototypes. The article makes two contributions. On market studies, it shows that prototyping is not only a way to develop, but also to commodify a product. On public policies and markets, it considers prototyping as a notion to better understand the interaction between market and public action.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 852-866
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2223228
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Author-Name: Chris Vasantkumar
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Vasantkumar
Title: “Every dollar has its own problem”: discrepant dollars and the social topography of fungibility in multi-currency era Zimbabwe (2009–2019)
Abstract: 
 This essay analyses the emergence and importance of multiple non-fungible kinds of US Dollars in the context of Zimbabwe’s multi-currency era (2009–2019). It does so to accomplish two related tasks. First, building on Bohannan’s classic distinction between conveyances and conversions, it highlights the dissolution and reconstitution of state money in Zimbabwe between 2007 and 2019 as characteristic of a ‘reconversioning’ of economic life. By the latter, I denote the irruption of incommensurabilities between different kinds of pecuniary media and the return of time- and place-specific thresholds or barriers to the smooth functioning of commerce. Second it unpacks the significant implications that this reconversioning has for received understandings of money’s fungibility. Ultimately, it argues that received notions of money's (non-)fungibility that derive from modern ‘states-of-conveyance’ need to be supplemented with models that are capable of reckoning with ‘conversionary’ monetary environments.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 829-851
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2191612
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Author-Name: Henri Koskinen
Author-X-Name-First: Henri
Author-X-Name-Last: Koskinen
Title: Outlining startup culture as a global form
Abstract: 
 Startup entrepreneurship, understood as innovative venture creation and development, has gained a strong momentum under current capitalism, and startup cultures are being developed all over the globe. In this article, I examine startup culture as a global form and investigate the relationship between Silicon Valley – often seen as the cradle of current technology and startup entrepreneurship – and local manifestations of startup culture. I argue that Silicon Valley is an ambivalent, emblematic schema for the global construction of startup cultures. Therefore, I draw attention to the shared features of startup cultures by conceptualizing the notion in a threefold manner. Firstly, I conceive startup culture as a form of governance, which I dub startup entrepreneurialism. Secondly, I discuss startup culture as the cultural circuit of digital capitalism. Thirdly, I explore startup culture as a distinct form of economic activity that is characterized by a symbiosis between venture capital and growth companies. Drawing together, I find that startup cultures are best understood as an instantiation of a privileged form of contemporary capitalist production.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 812-828
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2216215
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Author-Name: Sila Eser
Author-X-Name-First: Sila
Author-X-Name-Last: Eser
Title: Chasing Innovation
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 138-140
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 01
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Author-Name: Kristian Bondo Hansen
Author-X-Name-First: Kristian Bondo
Author-X-Name-Last: Hansen
Author-Name: Nanna Thylstrup
Author-X-Name-First: Nanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Thylstrup
Title: Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling
Abstract: 
 Hoping that the promises of machine-learning can be realised in financial markets, investment management and trading firms increasingly employ machine-learning techniques to extract exploitable informational edge from large datasets. In addition to heavy investments in technology and the human resources capable of manipulating it, this development has led to increased use of open-source machine-learning and data-management resources. Drawing on 44 interviews with developers and users of machine-learning techniques in finance, we explore how such platforms and other open-source resources are understood and used by said practitioners. Building on work in the Social Studies of Finance (SSF) on financial modelling and platformisation, we argue that these users of machine learning in finance engage in what we term stack bricolage activities, when they reuse disparate open-source resources in their modelling work. We argue that stack bricolage creates dependencies on open-source cloud resources characterised by infrastructural impermanence, which is a result of their substitutability and maintenance sensitivity. Our study contributes to the emerging SSF literature on machine-learning modelling cultures and debates in Science and Technology Studies and adjacent fields on the reuse of data and software in platformised cloud infrastructures.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 20-38
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2229347
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Author-Name: Roei Davidson
Author-X-Name-First: Roei
Author-X-Name-Last: Davidson
Author-Name: Noa Rein
Author-X-Name-First: Noa
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Author-Name: Eran Tamir
Author-X-Name-First: Eran
Author-X-Name-Last: Tamir
Title: The time-making capacity of the technology industry and its consequences for public life
Abstract: 
 In the past few decades, the technology industry has been wielding increasing power over public life as it intervenes in many social domains including education. These interventions occur not only through the products and services the industry sells or provides in these domains but also through direct interactions between technology industry personnel and actors within these domains. Drawing on 23 interviews with Israeli school principals (as well as a supplemental set of 20 interviews with technology industry volunteers and Ministry of Education documents), we identify the prominence of temporality as a dimension of how school principals perceive and, at times, experience their interactions with the technology industry. We find that many principals perceive technology workers’ time as scarcer and more valuable than that of school staff and students. Volunteering technology firms act as time-makers setting the temporal conditions of the interactions which tend to be short-term, irregular, and constantly changing while schools are mostly time-takers, adapting their schedules – with ministry encouragement – to those of firms or avoiding such interactions altogether. We consider how this subverts public actors’ autonomy from private interests while also noting how some educators exercise sovereignty by opposing such irregular interventions.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 55-72
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2261483
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Author-Name: Laurence Barry
Author-X-Name-First: Laurence
Author-X-Name-Last: Barry
Title: The moral economies of natural disasters insurance: solidarity or individual responsibility?
Abstract: 
 Over the second half of the twentieth century, the moral economy of insurance has shifted from solidarity and mutual support to individual responsibility. In this context, the French regime for the protection against natural catastrophes that took shape in the 1980s exemplifies a strong and almost anachronical political will to foster solidarity at the national level, thus questioning the moral economy of responsibility. This paper offers a textual analysis of the official debates that led to the launch of the regime. It shows how the representatives chose to separate compensation, financed by equal individual participation, from state prevention. This contrasts with other schemes worldwide that rely on rational decision theory to situate the responsibility for prevention at the individual level. In this alternative, risk-based premiums play a theoretically crucial role in risk signals. In practice, however, they lead to affordability issues while failing to govern prevention as theoretically expected. With the climate crisis exacerbating this phenomenon, the examination of the French regime thus allows to fruitfully revive other moral economies of insurance.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 39-54
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2258909
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Author-Name: Valentina Ausserladscheider
Author-X-Name-First: Valentina
Author-X-Name-Last: Ausserladscheider
Title: Towards a sociology of stranded assets
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 141-146
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2024.2306253
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Author-Name: Joshua Kalemba
Author-X-Name-First: Joshua
Author-X-Name-Last: Kalemba
Author-Name: Robyn Mayes
Author-X-Name-First: Robyn
Author-X-Name-Last: Mayes
Author-Name: Paula McDonald
Author-X-Name-First: Paula
Author-X-Name-Last: McDonald
Author-Name: Penny Williams
Author-X-Name-First: Penny
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams
Title: Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour
Abstract: 
 This paper offers an exploration of women’s experiences of engaging in digitally mediated care work. Data for this article is drawn from qualitative interviews conducted with 15 young women in Australia to explore their experiences of securing care work through a digital platform. Importantly, we focus on both online and offline dimensions of securing work, thus contributing to the extant literature which has tended to focus on the online aspects of securing platform work. Through the complementary lenses of performativity and affective atmospheres, we examine the complexities of presenting an idealised self to obtain work opportunities from an online pool of diverse care-seekers, and the bodily performances and attributes required offline to secure actual work. We conclude by reflecting on how online and offline interactions explicate the normative performativity required by young women to successfully access digitally mediated service work.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 108-120
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 01
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Author-Name: Georg Wolfmayr
Author-X-Name-First: Georg
Author-X-Name-Last: Wolfmayr
Title: Competitization: the proliferation of competition as a multidimensional process
Abstract: 
 Various scholars have noticed the increase of competition in the last decades and its essential role in contemporary social life. Their studies show the great variety of fields affected and are valuable contributions to understanding this process. However, they also represent a wide range of different conceptualizations and understandings of what exactly the increase of competition is and which aspects of social life it affects. Thus, to allow for a better understanding of this process and the commonalities and differences between the approaches that examine it, this paper presents a framework to grasp different dimensions of competitization, that is, the increase of competition in different social fields. Drawing on the basic elements of competition and the literature on the increase of competition, it discusses four dimensions of competitization: competitization by scarcity, by mechanism, by imaginary and by agency. Three main examples are used to demonstrate these dimensions: competitization in academia, market competitization and competitization in the form of rankings.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 121-137
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
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Author-Name: Elif Buse Doyuran
Author-X-Name-First: Elif Buse
Author-X-Name-Last: Doyuran
Title: Nudge goes to Silicon Valley: designing for the disengaged and the irrational
Abstract: 
 An array of software apps, from fitness to finance, enrolls behavioral economics, and economists, in their product designs, value propositions, or else sales pitches, to make products more engaging and to afford users new capabilities in their daily lives. Drawing on 30 interviews with product strategists, designers, and user researchers who work on these self-styled ‘behavior change apps,’ this paper empirically studies the behavioral economic proposition and its operationalization in routine practices of software development and design. Setting aside the behavioral addiction and manipulation frame that critical work on app design typically summons, I approach behavioral economics applications as market work and tease out the different, co-existing logics of attachment between products and their users, that emerge from how market actors decide what product to build, which features to have and how to design the user experience. In doing so, I show that strictly focusing on the frequency of repeated interaction is also empirically inadequate. The product is rather strategized, developed, and designed to become something that the user ‘cannot do without,’ not because it is addictive, but because it is made indispensable to the distributed action universe of the behavioral problem that it addresses.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 1-19
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2261485
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Author-Name: Nassima Abdelghafour
Author-X-Name-First: Nassima
Author-X-Name-Last: Abdelghafour
Title: The prices of development. An ethnographic account of a randomized pricing experiment in East Africa
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 This article, based on ethnographic research, explores the material conditions of price realization, in the context of a poverty-reduction intervention implemented in rural areas of an East African country. It describes a pricing experiment conducted by development economists on people living in extreme poverty, with real money. Using pricing as an analytic prism, I discuss the politics of a market-based poverty-alleviation project. The goal of the experiment was to identify a price that ultra-poor, off-grid consumers would be willing to pay to acquire a solar light. It consisted of testing different prices simultaneously and led to a situation in which participants within the same village were offered to buy the same object at a randomized price. The paper details the operations through which prices were turned into experimental objects and analyses the consequences of the particular way in which prices were materialized. As a result of the experimental pricing process, prices were carefully detached from the solar lights for sale, and carefully attached to randomly selected people. I show that beyond testing the villagers’ ability to pay a given price, the experiment aims at testing their ability and stimulating their desire to behave as payers in general.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 92-107
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 01
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Author-Name: Dimitris Soudias
Author-X-Name-First: Dimitris
Author-X-Name-Last: Soudias
Title: Transmuting solidarity: hybrid-economic practices in the social economy in Greece
Abstract: 
 This article explores the consequences of fusing market-based and social principles for how ‘the social’ and solidarity is understood. To do so, I turn to the recently formalized ‘Social and Solidarity Economy’(SSE) in Greece. I conceptualize the SSE as a governmental mode of power that attempts to render social and market-based principles as commensurate. I claim this occurs through the codification and proliferation of what we may call ‘hybrid-economic practices’  – such as social impact measurement, and social innovation. Hybrid-economic practices fuse a utilitarian, efficiency-maximizing logic that weighs costs and benefits, with narratives of solidarity and collective social purpose. Based on a qualitative analysis of the SSE law in Greece and interviews with practitioners and policy-makers, I claim that fusing market-based and social principles come at the cost of depleting the political and ethical components of solidarity and ‘the social.’ Yet, rather than depoliticizing them, I argue hybrid-economic practices more appropriately transmute how solidarity and ‘the social’ is understood through three mutually constitutive processes: economization, entrepreneurialization, and communitarianization.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 73-91
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2264292
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Author-Name: Paul Langley
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Langley
Title: Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 273-275
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 03
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Author-Name: Zeynep Oguz
Author-X-Name-First: Zeynep
Author-X-Name-Last: Oguz
Title: Managing oil theft: socio-material relations, debt, and disruption in Southeastern Turkey
Abstract: 
 In the Kurdish-populated Southeastern Turkey, oil theft carried out by Kurdish villagers who live near the oilfields in Diyarbakir are sometimes criminalized. But often, the matter is resolved by the state-owned oil company’s engineers and technicians. This paper argues that rather than an exterior problem, oil theft and its management are central to the governance of the colonial and militarized petro-geographies of Turkey’s Northern Kurdistan. The governance of kaçak oil, I argue is a technology of rule that is predicated in a moral economy of debt, reciprocity, negotiation, and collaboration that reproduces state territoriality and sovereignty. Yet the relations around oil and oil infrastructures, not only operate as technologies of governance, but also become the means through which Kurdish villagers reappropriate such infrastructures through acts of misuse and sabotage, which in turn, expose the fragility of state power. In arguing so, this paper situates kaçak oil as a distinctively political commodity whose management both reinstates the contours of the sovereign state and proper citizenship as well as a site where Kurdish actors redefine the limits of colonial state power by refusing the relations of indebtedness imposed by a violently benevolent state.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 234-248
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2144412
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Author-Name: Sinan Erensu
Author-X-Name-First: Sinan
Author-X-Name-Last: Erensu
Title: Pardoning Kaçak: politics of building amnesties and the making of the (im)moral urban economy in Istanbul
Abstract: 
 Like many metropolises in the global South, unregulated/informal (kaçak) construction is not an exception in Istanbul, but rather the norm. Most recently, in a 2018 building amnesty dubbed as ‘the Building Peace’ (İmar Barışı), 1.8 million kaçak structures in Istanbul were pardoned by the government. Given the ubiquity of building amnesties of this sort and their failure to prevent unregulated construction, this article questions what role the concept of kaçak plays if it fails to mark a boundary between formal and informal. By tracing the long history of building amnesties and examining how Istanbulites have partook in the 2018 Building Peace, I suggest that kaçak is an ongoing conversation on value in the city. Contrary to mainstream accounts that reduce building amnesties to mere populism, I understand kaçak, a la Ayşe Buğra (1998), as an important component of a larger urban moral economy through which conceptions of justice, reciprocity, public amenity, and good life are constantly negotiated. Thinking through the negotiations over kaçak allows us to see a multi-valent urban moral economy, illustrated in the article through the example of Kuzguncuk neighborhood where ultimate legalization of kaçak housing is contingent upon resident’s consent to an urban renewal project.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 212-233
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2179651
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Author-Name: Emrah Yıldız
Author-X-Name-First: Emrah
Author-X-Name-Last: Yıldız
Title: ‘Guaranteed contraband’: a cultural biography of kaçak tea in Gaziantep’s Iranian bazaar
Abstract: 
 Every year, 80,000 tons of kaçak (contraband) tea, primarily of Sri Lankan and Iranian origin, makes its way to the markets of Turkey – itself the fifth-largest producer of tea in the world. While most kaçak commodities in Turkey face derision because they are understood as low-quality approximations of their formal counterparts, of dubious origins and lacking any guarantees of quality, many consumers of kaçak tea valorize it as an emblem of superior taste. Rather than being a target of derision, kaçak tea takes shape in its consumers ‘thin-waisted’ glasses as a sign of distinction. In this inverted hierarchy of values, the domestic produce is the commodity that is mocked for its weak flavor and inflated price, while the informal contraband commodity is prized. By tracing the cultural biography of kaçak tea, this essay advances a historically and geographically networked understanding of commoditization across the formal/informal divide. Studying ‘guaranteed contraband’ tea across Turkey and Iran proves productive for understanding how people negotiate and build dynamic hierarchies of taste, while transforming the confines of the formal national economy into new thresholds of conversion that draw upon formalization of informality as well as informalization of formality in market formation.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 178-196
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2024.2323691
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Author-Name: Haydar Darici
Author-X-Name-First: Haydar
Author-X-Name-Last: Darici
Title: Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan
Abstract: 
 This article draws from ethnographic and oral history research to explore the intersection of cigarette smuggling and tribal relationships in Cizre, a Kurdish city located near Turkey's border with Syria and Iraq. Cigarette smuggling serves as a primary source of income for the city’s tribal communities, operating beyond the state's oversight and outside the ‘secure’ networks of the regulated market. This informal economy necessitates active collaboration amongst participants to effectively avoid state surveillance, and establish partnerships and substitute networks for coordinating the transfer of cigarettes, as well as for securing credit – all rooted in their tribal affiliations. I suggest that due to its significant reliance on tribal networks, the cigarette smuggling industry has allowed the Kurdish tribes to preserve their influence within an urban setting, even after their detachment from their pastoral economy and fragmentation as a result of enforced migration. I argue that the prominent role played by tribes in orchestrating the cigarette smuggling economy is indicative of the redistributive function that these institutions have increasingly assumed for their constituents.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 165-177
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2259412
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Author-Name: Melinda Cooper
Author-X-Name-First: Melinda
Author-X-Name-Last: Cooper
Title: Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 264-267
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2024.2308571
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Author-Name: Cihan Tekay Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Cihan
Author-X-Name-Last: Tekay Liu
Title: Kaçak electricity: negotiating rights and privileges in the Ottoman Empire during the imperialist era
Abstract: 
 What are the political and economic relationships between public utilities, companies, states and people that contemporary societies inherited from the age of imperialism, when new energy infrastructures and technologies started spreading across the world? Through a historical-anthropological exploration of kaçak (informal/illicit/smuggled) electricity use and exchange during the late Ottoman Empire, this article analyzes how the relationships between companies, state and consumers were negotiated at the outset of electrification and how the moral economic discourses established in this era continues to influence the current nexus. By examining the terms of formal and informal access to electricity in the Ottoman Empire, first as a privilege for the few and then as a public good, I show how people living in the periphery during capitalist markets’ expansion to the Ottoman Empire related to electricity as a new commodity. Through examining kaçak use and exchange in the process of Ottoman electrification, I argue that the question of kaçak is a moral economic discourse on who is a citizen worthy or deserving of access to public utilities and infrastructure, extending to the relationship between economic privileges and political rights that is also at the center of the current global debates about neoliberalism and privatization.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 197-211
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2281408
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Author-Name: Emrah Yıldız
Author-X-Name-First: Emrah
Author-X-Name-Last: Yıldız
Title: Kaçak | qaçax | قاچاق : fugitive forms of bureaucracy and economy across Southwest Asia
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 Electricity and petroleum stolen from grids of distribution. Livestock, tea, and tobacco traded as contraband goods across national borders. An apartment building built without permits. A defendant who refuses to show up to his trial. What unites these seemingly disparate situations in Turkey, Kurdistan and Iran is that they are all described with the qualifier kaçak. Although conventionally translated into English as the equivalent of ‘smuggled good,' the semantic domain of kaçak in Turkish (loaned into Kurdish and Persian) is more capacious than ‘smuggled’ signifies: Derived from the Turkish verb kaçmak - to run away, flee, or be a fugitive - kaçak helps us recover the act of breaching the obligations of a social or legal contract as a constitutive field of politics, framed by the socio-cultural constructions of modern bureaucracy and economy. Each participant tracks kaçak as a good, as a tapped resource or a legally sanctioned person, and shows the many forms kaçak takes in the hands of concrete social actors under historically specific material conditions. Further, kaçak provides a historically and geographically more expansive windows into the politically instituted process that is the making of states and economies in cross-regional and cross-disciplinary ways.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 147-153
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2024.2323685
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Author-Name: Nazan Ustundag
Author-X-Name-First: Nazan
Author-X-Name-Last: Ustundag
Title: Kaçak as a mode of feeling and being: sovereignty, fantasy, and the undercommons
Abstract: 
 The article addresses whether kaçak can be used as an analytic to understand and talk about fugitive ways of being and feeling in Turkey. It discusses the different meanings of kaçak and explores what the common underlying structure in the cultural life of Turkey is that brings these different meanings of leakage, smuggling, informal/illegal, contraband, and fugitive together in one word. It reveals the gendered nature of kaçak, and shows that if kaçak would be defined in relation to legality or formality, feminine forms of kaçak remain excluded. Therefore rather than basing the definition of kaçak on a distinction between legality and illegality or formality and informality, the article develops an understanding of kaçak that is in relationship with fantasy and sovereignty. In this framework, kaçak points to the forms and objects of life that are on the verge of being captured by patriarchal family, state, and capital. Finally, the article shows that the fantasy that entertains kaçak lives is not about being recognized or pardoned but about being felt: about producing a feeling in (under)commons. It is also about a kind of sovereignty that undercommons aspire to within relations of non-sovereignty.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 154-164
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2022.2159493
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Author-Name: Marlène Benquet
Author-X-Name-First: Marlène
Author-X-Name-Last: Benquet
Title: How alternative asset management is shaping our world: from the description of asset-manager society to the study of asset-manager politics
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 270-273
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2024.2306254
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Author-Name: Fırat Bozçalı
Author-X-Name-First: Fırat
Author-X-Name-Last: Bozçalı
Title: Partners in crime: smuggling economies (Kaçak/Qaçax) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands
Abstract: 
 When is a horse not just a pack animal but a criminal accomplice? When is a lamb more than just livestock, but a form of contraband or a witness in court? Pursuing these questions in Van, a Kurdish-majority province of Turkey bordering Iran, this article examines how human-animal collaborations facilitated Kurdish smuggling economies, or what locals called qaçax. I conceptualize qaçax and kaçak (the Turkish word from which it originated), as the inexhaustible capacity to escape control. As the state’s counterinsurgency against Kurdish guerillas established an extensive regime of surveillance and control in the Van borderlands, pack animals enabled smuggling convoys to evade state control and survive deadly anti-smuggling ambushes. Smugglers (and smuggler animals) also collaborated to elude the legal evidentiary processes and undermine allegations of smuggling brought against them. Rather than viewing animals as mere objects of legal knowledge, as existing studies have tended to do, the human-animal collaboration in court shows how the animals actually co-produce such knowledge. The smugglers’ evasion of criminal charges in court further troubles the categories of illegality and informality that are frequently associated with smuggling, and permits us to think of smuggling economies beyond binaries of legal-illegal, formal-informal, human-nonhuman or living-nonliving.
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 249-263
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2023.2189144
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Author-Name: Natascha van der Zwan
Author-X-Name-First: Natascha
Author-X-Name-Last: van der Zwan
Title: Living together and taking care of each other: narrating the asset-manager society
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 267-270
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2024.2306251
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Author-Name: Brett Christophers
Author-X-Name-First: Brett
Author-X-Name-Last: Christophers
Title: Author response: on the conditions of possibility of asset-manager society
Journal: Journal of Cultural Economy
Pages: 275-278
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2024
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