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Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought: Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Nicholas Jon Crane
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The politics of climate risk: How the climate issue is turned into a risk issue through the little tools and operations of finance Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Stine Engen, Kristin Asdal
The notion of ‘climate risk' has become key to how finance understands and manages the climate issue. This paper seeks to empirically trace the making of the climate-finance nexus through analyzing...
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Interventions and dissonance in industrial research: dressing the emperor in new clothes? Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Marianne Stang Våland, Trine Pallesen, Camilla Hedegaard Møller
This article describes the efforts of an ethnographically trained architect, employed as an industrial researcher in an architectural firm, as she tests ways of being relevant to both scholarly and...
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‘I’m not going to feed the bailiffs’: personal bankruptcy and debtor agency in narrative accounts of struggling debtors Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Anja Decker, Tomáš Hoření Samec
The article uses the formal instrument of personal bankruptcy proceedings as an illuminating context to contribute to the scholarship on the lived experience of overindebtedness. Through the analys...
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Keeping the market afloat: attachments, circuits of clientele, and personalized commodity exchanges in rural shopkeeping Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Quentin Schnapper
This paper questions the conditions of possibility and limits of the most intimate forms of emotional capitalism by studying the everyday working lives of female shopkeepers in rural France. Combin...
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Parental investment and the economization of parenting Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Michelle Spiegel, Yana Kuchirko, Nina Bandelj
We argue that economists, as well as other social scientists, have increasingly focused on parenting as a means of building children’s human capital and reducing poverty. This is reflected, in part...
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Climate Lyricism Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Katherine Duffy
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 17, No. 4, 2024)
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Forecasts. A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Théo Régniez
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 17, No. 4, 2024)
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Intermediaries, mediators and digital advertising’s tensions Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Addie McGowan, Donald MacKenzie, Koray Caliskan
We argue that Latour’s distinction between ‘intermediaries’ and ‘mediators’ captures important facets of tensions in market encounters and in the co-creation of ‘supply’ and ‘demand’ within digital...
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My attachment to Michel Callon’s markets Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Liz McFall
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Platforming pickiness: the digitally mediated enactment of childhood avoidant eating Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Joe Deville
Steve Woolgar has argued that science and technology studies is a prime place for studying the relationship between children and consumption [2012 “Ontological Child Consumption.” In Situating Chil...
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The haptic visuality of financial trading Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Deniz Coral
This article offers a sideways approach to analyzing market visualizations on trading screens as a part of the sensoryscapes of financial trading. Based on ethnographic research on the trading floo...
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Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Sunniva Sandbukt
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 17, No. 4, 2024)
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Consumer Activism: Promotional Culture and Resistance Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Adam Richard Rottinghaus
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2024)
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Investing in the community: English local authorities and the ‘patient investment’ of economic regeneration Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Niamh Mulcahy
This paper explores increasing emphasis on long-term investment in English devolution policy, as part of attempts to revitalise struggling communities through investment in infrastructure and publi...
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A feminist approach to fintech: exploring ‘buy now, pay later’ technologies and consumer fintech Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Jessa Loomis, Daniel Cockayne
‘Buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) is a financial technology that is reshaping online consumption by allowing users to split payment for goods over 3–4 interest-free digital installments. While the use an...
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Buy Now, Pay Later technologies and the gamification of debt in the financial lives of young people Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Steven Threadgold, Barrie Shannon, Adriana Haro, Julia Cook, Kate Davies, Julia Coffey, David Farrugia, Benjamin Matthews, Joshua Healy, Roger Burrows
In many countries Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) services have rapidly become a pervasive option to pay for consumer products both online and instore. Under-regulated and specifically marketed at young p...
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Configuring ethical food consumers: understanding the failures of digital food platforms Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Christian Fuentes
Digital food platforms are being launched, offering consumers convenient access to ‘ethical’ food. Ensuring the viability of these platforms hinges on attracting and retaining loyal customers. Howe...
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The leftovers: a rural weaving of field care practices, taste and value within a local food-producing network Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Emmy Laura Perez Fjalland, Thomas Budde Christensen
More than two-thirds of Denmark's rural landscape is comprised of agricultural fields, mostly conventionally used. The wastage resulting from food production has increased throughout the last 50 ye...
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‘Guaranteed contraband’: a cultural biography of kaçak tea in Gaziantep’s Iranian bazaar Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Emrah Yıldız
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 ...
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Kaçak electricity: negotiating rights and privileges in the Ottoman Empire during the imperialist era Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Cihan Tekay Liu
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 infrastru...
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Kaçak | qaçax | قاچاق : fugitive forms of bureaucracy and economy across Southwest Asia Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Emrah Yıldız
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...
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The formalisation of academic subjectivity under constant performance assessment Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Ming-Te Peng
This paper considers the part played by measuring instruments in academic subjectivity. Higher education in many regions has undergone procedures of marketisation. Because competitive mechanisms en...
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Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Paul Langley
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 17, No. 2, 2024)
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Author response: on the conditions of possibility of asset-manager society Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Brett Christophers
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 17, No. 2, 2024)
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Space and Organizing on Spatial Agencing Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Sevde Nur Unal
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2024)
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Green bond market practices: exploring the moral ‘balance’ of environmental and financial values Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) 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 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Melinda Cooper
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 17, No. 2, 2024)
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On debt obligations as market relations: the entanglement of debtors in market organization Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) 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 1.9) 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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Towards a sociology of stranded assets Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) 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 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Marlène Benquet
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 17, No. 2, 2024)
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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 1.9) 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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‘To the moon!’: Elon Musk, Dogecoin, and the political economy of charismatic leadership Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) 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 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Natascha van der Zwan
Published in Journal of Cultural Economy (Vol. 17, No. 2, 2024)
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Financial capital and ghosts of empire: editorial Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) 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 1.9) 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 1.9) 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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Counting chickens before they hatch: transformational accounting in a development cash transfer program Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) 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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Domestic values: gendered labor and the uncanniness of critique in marketing life insurance for women Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) 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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Digital working lives: workers autonomy and the gig economy Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) 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 1.9) 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 1.9) 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 1.9) 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 1.9) 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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From small to big data: (mis)uses of insurance premium for the government of hazards Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) 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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Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) 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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Competitization: the proliferation of competition as a multidimensional process Journal of Cultural Economy (IF 1.9) 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 1.9) 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 1.9) 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 1.9) 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 1.9) 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 1.9) 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 1.9) 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 1.9) 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 1.9) 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 1.9) 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 1.9) 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 1.9) 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 1.9) 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...