Journal of Cultural Economy

2008 - 2025

Current editor(s): Michael Pryke, Joe Deville, Tony Bennett, Liz McFall and Melinda Cooper

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Volume 18, issue 2, 2025

Platforms or flatforms? Insights from an auto-ethnographic account of a virtual cycling app pp. 175-193

Franck Cochoy

Profit compression, time compression, and emotional exhaustion: the platformization of Taobao and its constraining effects on Chinese ‘original design’ women’s e-shops pp. 194-211

Deya Xu and Tingting Liu

Market devices and infrastructures: how they differ and why it matters pp. 212-229

David Pinzur and Tom Duterme

Personal devices: investing apps and the selectively self-directed digital-financial subject pp. 230-246

Emily Chua

A crypto way out: cryptocurrency, techno-economic imaginaries, and crisis in Russia pp. 247-265

Kobe De Keere and Maksim Novokreshchenov

Inventorying data: circumvented investment conditions by Big Tech’s supply chain capitalism pp. 266-283

Caroline Anna Salling and Brit Ross Winthereik

Monetized socialization on the front end: exchanging money as social activities through Red Packet and Transfer on WeChat pp. 284-303

Jiaxun Li

Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms pp. 304-331

Koray Caliskan, Donald MacKenzie and Michel Callon

The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube pp. 332-334

Robert Cluley

Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality pp. 334-337

Yameena Zaidi

Volume 18, issue 1, 2025

A feminist approach to fintech: exploring ‘buy now, pay later’ technologies and consumer fintech pp. 1-17

Jessa Loomis and Daniel Cockayne

‘I’m not going to feed the bailiffs’: personal bankruptcy and debtor agency in narrative accounts of struggling debtors pp. 18-34

Anja Decker and Tomáš Hoření Samec

Bridging governmentality and economization: temporality as a financialization device pp. 35-51

Samantha S. Plummer

Buy Now, Pay Later technologies and the gamification of debt in the financial lives of young people pp. 52-67

Steven Threadgold, Barrie Shannon, Adriana Haro, Julia Cook, Kate Davies, Julia Coffey, David Farrugia, Benjamin Matthews, Joshua Healy and Roger Burrows

Fashioning the nation in the age of populism pp. 68-91

Virág Molnár

Culture or commerce? Craft as an ambiguous construction between culture and economy pp. 92-108

Ola Gunhildrud Berta

The leftovers: a rural weaving of field care practices, taste and value within a local food-producing network pp. 109-128

Emmy Laura Perez Fjalland and Thomas Budde Christensen

From ‘take-ism’ to pursuit of newness and originality: design professionals and models of creativity in contemporary China pp. 129-146

Grace Tang

My attachment to Michel Callon’s markets pp. 147-153

Liz McFall

Review Symposium: Michel Callon’s Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation. Zone Books pp. 154-167

Michel Callon, Paul Langley, Bill Maurer, Timothy Mitchell, Alvin Roth and Koray Caliskan

Reading Callon at Zuccotti Park pp. 168-174

Elif Buse Doyuran, Simiran Lalvani and Sevde Nur Unal

Volume 17, issue 6, 2024

Digital (mis)trust: ethnographic encounters with computational forms pp. 725-736

James Maguire and Kristoffer Albris

Computing trust: on writing ‘good’ code in computer science education pp. 737-756

Samantha Breslin

Trusting elections: complexities and risks of digital voting in Denmark pp. 757-774

Christopher Gad

The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures pp. 775-792

Ranjit Singh

Characterising assurance: scepticism and mistrust in cyber security pp. 793-808

Matt Spencer

Afterword: the evolution and (mis)use of (mis)trust pp. 809-813

Matthew Carey

Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis pp. 814-816

Andreas Tranvik

Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought: Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice pp. 817-819

Nicholas Jon Crane

Upgrade Culture and Technological Change: The Business of the Future pp. 820-822

Kathleen Oswald

Is it possible to imagine the future without computers? pp. 823-826

Adam Richard Rottinghaus

Volume 17, issue 5, 2024

Intermediaries, mediators and digital advertising’s tensions pp. 513-531

Addie McGowan, Donald MacKenzie and Koray Caliskan

From small to big data: (mis)uses of insurance premium for the government of hazards pp. 532-547

Laurence Barry

Parental investment and the economization of parenting pp. 548-566

Michelle Spiegel, Yana Kuchirko and Nina Bandelj

The haptic visuality of financial trading pp. 567-587

Deniz Coral

Investing in the community: English local authorities and the ‘patient investment’ of economic regeneration pp. 588-604

Niamh Mulcahy

Intimate valuation devices: Doing valuation while doing dating in Tinder texts pp. 605-625

Thorsten Peetz

How to be not economic: abundance and the history of strolling pp. 626-640

Till Düppe

Undoing cultural studies: cultural economy at the Open University (1979–1997) pp. 641-662

Toby Bennett

A poststructuralist who still believes in structures: interview with John Allen pp. 663-671

John Allen and Toby Bennett

Cultural revolutions: interview with Paul du Gay and Michael Pryke pp. 672-683

Paul du Gay, Michael Pryke and Toby Bennett

Strategic ambiguity: a roundtable on cultural economy and consumer culture pp. 684-693

Don Slater, Sean Nixon and Liz McFall

Perspectives on cultural economy: personal, institutional, historical pp. 694-699

Keith Negus

From rag market to creative economy: interview with Angela McRobbie pp. 700-706

Angela McRobbie and Toby Bennett

Reflections on representing Black Britain pp. 707-715

Sarita Malik

Finance: cultural or political? pp. 716-719

Fabian Muniesa

Shouldn’t we all be doing cultural economy? pp. 720-724

Philip Roscoe

Volume 17, issue 4, 2024

Financial capital and ghosts of empire: editorial pp. 419-433

Clea Bourne, Max Haiven, Johnna Montgomerie and Paul Gilbert

Storying Indigenous cryptocurrency: reckoning with the ghosts of US settler colonialism in the cultural economy pp. 434-451

Ashley Cordes

New financializations, old displacements: neo-extractivism, ‘whitening’, and consumption in Latin America pp. 452-469

Emmanuel Guerisoli and Santiago Mandirola

Spectrally shape-shifting: biometrics, fintech and the corporate-state in India pp. 470-488

Kavita Dattani

For the refusal of unpayable debts: an artists’ roundtable with Dele Adeyemo, Ahmed Isamaldin, Bahar Noorizadeh, and Gary Zhexi Zhang pp. 489-503

Max Haiven

Climate Lyricism pp. 504-507

Katherine Duffy

Forecasts. A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster pp. 507-509

Théo Régniez

Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform pp. 510-512

Sunniva Sandbukt

Volume 17, issue 3, 2024

Green bond market practices: exploring the moral ‘balance’ of environmental and financial values pp. 279-296

Sarah Bracking

‘To the moon!’: Elon Musk, Dogecoin, and the political economy of charismatic leadership pp. 297-313

Dominik Zelinsky

Domestic values: gendered labor and the uncanniness of critique in marketing life insurance for women pp. 314-330

Sohini Kar

On debt obligations as market relations: the entanglement of debtors in market organization pp. 331-344

Tamar Nir

Poverty among riches: understanding the contracted economy for recorded music and its impact on market actors pp. 345-359

Elizabeth Carter

Open for business: the discursive diffusion of regulatory sandboxes for fintech innovation pp. 360-378

Sine Nørholm Just, Morten Fischer Sivertsen and Sian Lewin

Questioning the disposability of plastic packaging: Consumer challenges to fresh food packaging market devices and their afterlives pp. 379-395

Jack Pickering

Business of involution: self-study rooms and work culture in China pp. 396-412

Changwen Chen and Renyi Hong

Space and Organizing on Spatial Agencing pp. 413-416

Sevde Nur Unal

Consumer Activism: Promotional Culture and Resistance pp. 416-417

Adam Richard Rottinghaus

Volume 17, issue 2, 2024

Kaçak | qaçax | قاچاق: fugitive forms of bureaucracy and economy across Southwest Asia pp. 147-153

Emrah Yıldız

Kaçak as a mode of feeling and being: sovereignty, fantasy, and the undercommons pp. 154-164

Nazan Ustundag

Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan pp. 165-177

Haydar Darici

‘Guaranteed contraband’: a cultural biography of kaçak tea in Gaziantep’s Iranian bazaar pp. 178-196

Emrah Yıldız

Kaçak electricity: negotiating rights and privileges in the Ottoman Empire during the imperialist era pp. 197-211

Cihan Tekay Liu

Pardoning Kaçak: politics of building amnesties and the making of the (im)moral urban economy in Istanbul pp. 212-233

Sinan Erensu

Managing oil theft: socio-material relations, debt, and disruption in Southeastern Turkey pp. 234-248

Zeynep Oguz

Partners in crime: smuggling economies (Kaçak/Qaçax) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands pp. 249-263

Fırat Bozçalı

Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World pp. 264-267

Melinda Cooper

Living together and taking care of each other: narrating the asset-manager society pp. 267-270

Natascha van der Zwan

How alternative asset management is shaping our world: from the description of asset-manager society to the study of asset-manager politics pp. 270-273

Marlène Benquet

Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World pp. 273-275

Paul Langley

Author response: on the conditions of possibility of asset-manager society pp. 275-278

Brett Christophers

Volume 17, issue 1, 2024

Nudge goes to Silicon Valley: designing for the disengaged and the irrational pp. 1-19

Elif Buse Doyuran

Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling pp. 20-38

Kristian Bondo Hansen and Nanna Thylstrup

The moral economies of natural disasters insurance: solidarity or individual responsibility? pp. 39-54

Laurence Barry

The time-making capacity of the technology industry and its consequences for public life pp. 55-72

Roei Davidson, Noa Rein and Eran Tamir

Transmuting solidarity: hybrid-economic practices in the social economy in Greece pp. 73-91

Dimitris Soudias

The prices of development. An ethnographic account of a randomized pricing experiment in East Africa pp. 92-107

Nassima Abdelghafour

Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour pp. 108-120

Joshua Kalemba, Robyn Mayes, Paula McDonald and Penny Williams

Competitization: the proliferation of competition as a multidimensional process pp. 121-137

Georg Wolfmayr

Chasing Innovation pp. 138-140

Sila Eser

Towards a sociology of stranded assets pp. 141-146

Valentina Ausserladscheider