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Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Paul Langley
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Author response: on the conditions of possibility of asset-manager society Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Brett Christophers
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Space and Organizing on Spatial Agencing Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Sevde Nur Unal
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Green bond market practices: exploring the moral ‘balance’ of environmental and financial values Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Sarah Bracking
This paper explores why and how green bond investors apply environmental and financial morality. It analyses the coproduction of environmental and financial values in green bond markets using digit...
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Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Melinda Cooper
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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On debt obligations as market relations: the entanglement of debtors in market organization Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Tamar Nir
Over the past decade, debt-based solutions have been implemented as part of austerity policies to distribute public goods by the use of market forces, resulting in an increase in public and private...
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How to be not economic: abundance and the history of strolling Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Till Düppe
This essay offers an interpretation of the canonical history of strolling as a non-economic practice, that is, as a practice free of purpose and means. I consider strolling as a state of mind that ...
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Poverty among riches: understanding the contracted economy for recorded music and its impact on market actors Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Elizabeth Carter
More people are listening to more recorded music than any other time in history. While record labels have largely rebounded from the lean ‘Napster years’ of the early 2000s, remuneration for artist...
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Towards a sociology of stranded assets Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Valentina Ausserladscheider
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2024)
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How alternative asset management is shaping our world: from the description of asset-manager society to the study of asset-manager politics Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Marlène Benquet
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘To the moon!’: Elon Musk, Dogecoin, and the political economy of charismatic leadership Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Dominik Zelinsky
This article investigates a neglected aspect of charismatic authority: the problem of economic practices of charismatic leaders and their communities. Drawing on Weber’s classical theory of charism...
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Living together and taking care of each other: narrating the asset-manager society Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Natascha van der Zwan
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Financial capital and ghosts of empire: editorial Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Clea Bourne, Max Haiven, Johnna Montgomerie, Paul Gilbert
In this special issue, we take up the metaphor of the ghost to identify the seemingly intangible yet undeniable persistence of racism, empire and colonialism in finance and the global capitalist ec...
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Open for business: the discursive diffusion of regulatory sandboxes for fintech innovation Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Sine Nørholm Just, Morten Fischer Sivertsen, Sian Lewin
Within a timespan of a few years, regulatory sandboxes, a novel initiative for testing fintech innovations, have spread to financial conduct authorities across the world. We study the discursive di...
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The prices of development. An ethnographic account of a randomized pricing experiment in East Africa Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Nassima Abdelghafour
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...
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Domestic values: gendered labor and the uncanniness of critique in marketing life insurance for women Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Sohini Kar
While term life insurance has historically been sold to income-earning men to secure the financial futures of their families, in India there is a growing number of life insurance products targeting...
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Counting chickens before they hatch: transformational accounting in a development cash transfer program Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Maia Green
This article investigates the role of narratives in international development through an ethnographic analysis of a cash transfer program. Tanzania’s Productive Social Safety Net makes small. Regul...
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Digital working lives: workers autonomy and the gig economy Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Eugenia Stamboliev
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 16, No. 6, 2023)
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Questioning the disposability of plastic packaging; Consumer challenges to fresh food packaging market devices and their afterlives Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Jack Pickering
Disposable plastic packaging has been conceptualised as a market device that has effects on the functioning of economic markets. It is particularly influential in food retail environments but also ...
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Transmuting solidarity: hybrid-economic practices in the social economy in Greece Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Dimitris Soudias
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 Solida...
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Mediating lifestyle movements: the ethical ecologies of digital veganisms Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Eva Haifa Giraud
This article sets out a framework, ‘ethical ecologies,’ for researching and conceptualizing the role of media in lifestyle movements. Understanding lifestyle movements is important due to their gro...
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The time-making capacity of the technology industry and its consequences for public life Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Roei Davidson, Noa Rein, Eran Tamir
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 ...
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Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Haydar Darici
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...
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From small to big data: (mis)uses of insurance premium for the government of hazards Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Laurence Barry
If insurance is a technology for governing hazards, the tools for doing so have changed over time and seem to concentrate, in the second half of the twentieth century, on the notion of risk-based p...
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Competitization: the proliferation of competition as a multidimensional process Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Georg Wolfmayr
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 val...
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Nudge goes to Silicon Valley: designing for the disengaged and the irrational Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Elif Buse Doyuran
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...
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Accumulation mode and political interests of alternative finance and asset management: are they the same actors? Do they want the same thing? Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Marlène Benquet
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 16, No. 5, 2023)
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Computing trust: on writing ‘good’ code in computer science education Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Samantha Breslin
What does it mean to produce trustworthy code for computer scientists? Based primarily on ethnographic fieldwork in an undergraduate computer science program in Singapore, this article explores wha...
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Intimate valuation devices: Doing valuation while doing dating in Tinder texts Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Thorsten Peetz
Dating apps are valuation devices that people use to set up and valuate digital identities. Building a profile is a first move in a valuation game that contributes to intimate valorization of perso...
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The moral economies of natural disasters insurance: solidarity or individual responsibility? Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Laurence Barry
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...
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Trusting elections: complexities and risks of digital voting in Denmark Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Christopher Gad
ABSTRACT It is often said that election processes depend on trust for their legitimacy. Trust is therefore crucial to the sustainability of democracy. It also seems clear that patterns and forms of trust in Western democracies are changing in tandem with digitalization. This paper explores some possible inflections of the concept of trust in the ‘age of digitalization’ by examining its articulation
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Fractured insurance families: securing care and navigating financialized social protections Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Jessica M. Mulligan
ABSTRACT Health insurance products mediate intimate relations of care in the United States where access to insurance is predicated on income, disability, age, immigration status, and family composition. This study of insurance enrolment experiences under the Affordable Care Act health reform law explores how applicants attempted to strategically naturalize their kin arrangements by applying for health
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Culture or commerce? Craft as an ambiguous construction between culture and economy Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Ola Gunhildrud Berta
ABSTRACT Contemporary craft presents a conceptual difficulty for many Marshall Islanders, who struggle to construct definitions that rely on a clear-cut separation between culture and economy, in which craft is perceived to serve either cultural or commercial purposes. However, this article ethnographically illustrates that craft is an ambiguous construction. Its ambiguity stems from conflicting notions
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‘A video or a flat fee?’ on the performances of concert fees Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Loïc Riom
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 b...
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Models in the circular economy: envisioning waste’s potential Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Rolien Hoyng
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 16, No. 4, 2023)
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Grounded circularity: the livelihoods of surplus clay Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Delphine Rumo
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 16, No. 4, 2023)
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Prototyping to turn policy into design. (Co)modification of a serious game in the French education system Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Victor Potier
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 edu...
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How to be tidal: designing with waste streams as matter in flow and matter of value Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Kate Scardifield, Nahum McLean
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Postcapitalist composting: reverse logistics and organic waste, designing for diverse livelihoods Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Stephen Healy, Abby Mellick Lopes
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 16, No. 4, 2023)
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The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Ranjit Singh
ABSTRACT This paper explores data security practices of Aadhaar, India's biometrics-based national identification number, and the co-constitution of trust and mistrust that underlies its operation as a public data infrastructure. Based on 18-months of multi-sited ethnographic research, I document tensions around whether Aadhaar numbers were designed to be disclosed publicly or kept confidential. I
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Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Sydney Halleman
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 16, No. 6, 2023)
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The waste generated by waste avoidance Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Cameron Tonkinwise
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 16, No. 4, 2023)
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Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Kristian Bondo Hansen, Nanna Thylstrup
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 inf...
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Provocation Soil Trust: designing economies inside an interspecies world of feeders Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Markus Wernli, Kam-Fai Chan
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 16, No. 4, 2023)
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Waste/economy/ecology: redrawing the circular economy Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Gay Hawkins, Stephen Healy
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 16, No. 4, 2023)
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COVID relief as ‘dangerous money’ for Black business owners Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Lana Swartz, Vivian Afi Abui Dzokoto
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
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Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Michael Ralph
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
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Spectrally shape-shifting: biometrics, fintech and the corporate-state in India Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Kavita Dattani
ABSTRACT Through a hauntological frame, this article investigates how the ghosts of colonial pasts are re-emerging in India's national universal biometric identity system, Aadhaar, and a software infrastructure built on top of it, India Stack. It shows how Aadhaar and India Stack facilitate the extraction of data as a form of ‘data colonialism.’ Examining data colonialism through an enquiry of how
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Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Ruth Lane
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 16, No. 4, 2023)
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Reuse value: economies and philosophies of durability Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Gay Hawkins
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 16, No. 4, 2023)
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Thinking with waste to know the economic Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Josh Lepawsky
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 16, No. 4, 2023)
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Environmentalism polluted: consumerism and complicity in Studio Ghibli’s media mix Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Maxim Tvorun-Dunn, Nathalie Pascaru
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 gener...
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Statement of Retraction: Interrogating the traditional ethics and values of religious fundraising strategies of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo (Southwest Nigeria) Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-07-12
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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‘Orunmila needs a new house’: religious fundraising and the revitalisation of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo in southwest Nigeria Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 K. Charles Omotayo
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 a...
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Chasing Innovation Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Sila Eser
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 17, No. 1, 2024)
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Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Joshua Kalemba, Robyn Mayes, Paula McDonald, Penny Williams
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 Aust...
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Digitizing other markets: lessons from the Bush Internet of Island Melanesia Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Geoffrey Hobbis, Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis
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
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Monastic Buddhist asset capitalization in ancient Sri Lanka Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Matthew D. Milligan
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 ...
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Plasticine Music – or the intimate social life of cultural objects Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Víctor Ávila Torres
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 assemblag...
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Ethnographic interventions and thought paradigms at a governmental revenue service Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 6.613) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Lotta Björklund Larsen
ABSTRACT What role can ethnography play in assessing risks with tax collection? When many tax administrations aim to understand people and be seen as legitimate in society, one would think it is an important role. Yet ethnography can also reveal insights from risk assessments that do not play out well with existing legitimacy strategies. This article addresses the rise and fall of ethnography as a