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 16, issue 6, 2023

The interpretive and relational work of financial innovation: a resemblance of assurance in Islamic finance pp. 793-811

Aaron Z. Pitluck

Outlining startup culture as a global form pp. 812-828

Henri Koskinen

“Every dollar has its own problem”: discrepant dollars and the social topography of fungibility in multi-currency era Zimbabwe (2009–2019) pp. 829-851

Chris Vasantkumar

Prototyping to turn policy into design. (Co)modification of a serious game in the French education system pp. 852-866

Victor Potier

‘A video or a flat fee?’ on the performances of concert fees pp. 867-885

Loïc Riom

Environmentalism polluted: consumerism and complicity in Studio Ghibli’s media mix pp. 886-907

Maxim Tvorun-Dunn and Nathalie Pascaru

Plasticine Music – or the intimate social life of cultural objects pp. 908-920

Víctor Ávila Torres

Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America pp. 921-923

Sydney Halleman

Digital working lives: workers autonomy and the gig economy pp. 923-925

Eugenia Stamboliev

Volume 16, issue 5, 2023

Histories of religious fundraising: religion, economy, and value in global perspective: introduction pp. 655-664

Jane Caple and Sarah Roddy

‘Investments in the Kingdom of Christ’: home missionary fundraising and investor capitalism in the late-nineteenth-century USA pp. 665-681

Andrew Short

Monastic Buddhist asset capitalization in ancient Sri Lanka pp. 682-697

Matthew D. Milligan

The stakes of religious fundraising: economic transition and religious resurgence in Irish Catholicism and Tibetan Buddhism pp. 698-715

Jane Caple and Sarah Roddy

Regulating chance: Buddhist temple lotteries, government oversight, and anti-Buddhist discourse in early modern Japan pp. 716-732

Matthew Mitchell

‘Orunmila needs a new house’: religious fundraising and the revitalisation of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo in southwest Nigeria pp. 733-750

K. Charles Omotayo

Valuing the Urakami Cathedral after the atomic bombing: fundraising and social rupture in Nagasaki pp. 751-767

Gwyn McClelland

Brexit’s hidden network of power: Comment of “Alt-Finance” pp. 768-772

Cecilia Rikap

UK’s Eighteenth Brumaire pp. 772-775

Olivier Godechot

Thinking big about finance pp. 776-778

Felix Bühlmann

Accumulation mode and political interests of alternative finance and asset management: are they the same actors? Do they want the same thing? pp. 778-786

Marlène Benquet

Response to reviewers: updating Alt-Finance with the literatures on patrimonialism, asset manager capitalism, and blocs pp. 786-791

Théo Bourgeron

Volume 16, issue 4, 2023

COVID relief as ‘dangerous money’ for Black business owners pp. 477-494

Lana Swartz and Vivian Afi Abui Dzokoto

Poor counts as viable accounts: numbers, forecasting, and routinization in Greece pp. 495-512

Soo-Young Kim

Charitable assets: social outcomes, financial values, and the new, nonprofit funding regime pp. 513-528

James W. Williams

How the living shapes markets: accounting for the action of biological entities in market agencing pp. 529-543

Quentin Chance, Frédéric Goulet and Ronan Le Velly

The politics of mediation: subjectivity, value and power in the digital grid of Aadhaar pp. 544-558

Tsvetelina Hristova

Digitizing other markets: lessons from the Bush Internet of Island Melanesia pp. 559-575

Geoffrey Hobbis and Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis

Waste/economy/ecology: redrawing the circular economy pp. 576-578

Gay Hawkins and Stephen Healy

Reuse value: economies and philosophies of durability pp. 579-586

Gay Hawkins

Thinking with waste to know the economic pp. 587-593

Josh Lepawsky

Provocation Soil Trust: designing economies inside an interspecies world of feeders pp. 594-603

Markus Wernli and Kam-Fai Chan

How to be tidal: designing with waste streams as matter in flow and matter of value pp. 604-614

Kate Scardifield and Nahum McLean

Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through pp. 615-621

Ruth Lane

Postcapitalist composting: reverse logistics and organic waste, designing for diverse livelihoods pp. 622-630

Stephen Healy and Abby Mellick Lopes

Grounded circularity: the livelihoods of surplus clay pp. 631-639

Delphine Rumo

The waste generated by waste avoidance pp. 640-647

Cameron Tonkinwise

Models in the circular economy: envisioning waste’s potential pp. 648-654

Rolien Hoyng

Volume 16, issue 3, 2023

What is a financial frontier? pp. 311-322

Andrea Ballestero, Andrea Muehlebach and Gloria Pérez-Rivera

Relational finance: Ottoman debt, financialization, and the problem of the semi-civilized pp. 323-336

Julia Elyachar

Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing pp. 337-349

Michael Ralph

Compounding financial frontiers: capital seeds and seeds for capital pp. 350-362

Gloria C. Pérez-Rivera

Contract as frontier device, or, the political publics of water infrastructures pp. 363-376

Andrea Muehlebach

The frontier in heterogeneous time: finance, temporality, and an economic zone on hold pp. 377-391

Geoffrey Rathgeb Aung

Pan African capital? Banks, currencies, and imperial power pp. 392-408

Hannah Appel

A financial frontier for Catalonia: nationalism in times of austerity pp. 409-422

Jorge Núñez

Trusts at the financial frontier: the flickering forms of property, water, and governance pp. 423-438

Andrea Ballestero

Financial frontiers: borders, conversions, enclosures pp. 439-452

Horacio Ortiz

Afterword of ‘Financial frontiers': towards conceptualizing finance that engages both power and contingency pp. 453-461

Karen Ho

Viviana Zelizer’s work as inspiration for a public sociology of money pp. 462-472

Ariel Wilkis

Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London pp. 473-475

Luca Storti

Volume 16, issue 2, 2023

Screening for eligibility: access and resistance in Istanbul’s food banks pp. 151-167

Candan Turkkan

Reading the signs: on inferential semiotics and market imagination pp. 168-182

Robin Porsfelt

Karl Polanyi’s theory of fictitious commodification as a cultural political economy of institutionalization pp. 183-202

Bonwoo Koo and Joo-Hyoung Ji

Platform sabotage pp. 203-220

Aaron Shapiro

Lumpen utopia: money, livestreaming, and labor in emerging media worlds pp. 221-241

Shayan Momin

How app companies use GitHub: on modes of valuation in the digital attention economy pp. 242-259

Eva Iris Otto, Jonathan Holm Salka and Anders Blok

Toward cultural and creative industry: Chinese eSports through a business ecosystem lens pp. 260-276

Yupei Zhao, Qiuxian Li and Zhongxuan Lin

Biowaste as fluid matter: valuing biogas and biofertilisers as assets in the Finnish biogas sector pp. 277-293

Taru Lehtokunnas and Olli Pyyhtinen

Communities, cohorts and counter-speculators pp. 294-297

Emily Rosamond

They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria pp. 297-300

Leila Demarest

Digital pirates: policing intellectual property in Brazil pp. 300-303

Sean Johnson Andrews

Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance pp. 303-306

Gary Kafer

Decolonial Imaginings: Intersectional Conversations and Contestations pp. 306-309

Nora Naji

Volume 16, issue 1, 2023

‘Take Care of Stray Cats’: biopolitical life ethics and its cosmopolitical countermethod pp. 1-16

Sungyong Ahn

The engineering of stock market indices: winners and losers pp. 17-31

Tom Duterme

Does social media pay for music artists? Quantitative evidence on the co-evolution of social media, streaming and live music pp. 32-46

Allan Watson, Joseph B. Watson and Lou Tompkins

Cultural work and contributive justice pp. 47-61

Mark Banks

‘Driving is terrifying’: auto-mobility horizons, projections and networks in Vietnam and ASEAN pp. 62-80

Ivan V. Small

Working on working women: the postfeminist mystification of employable femininity in post-crisis Spain pp. 81-96

Pedro M. Rey-Araújo, Laura Martínez-Jiménez and Lina Gálvez-Muñoz

Peiwan: the cruel optimism of China’s online ‘play companions’ pp. 97-111

Miao Li

Out of time: the temporal limits of coronavirus-inspired solidarity with workers pp. 112-127

Galit Ailon

The story of work: a new history of Humankind pp. 128-130

Rebecca L. Spang

Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life pp. 130-134

Koray Caliskan

Thinking infrastructures and the promise of infrastructure: towards advancing the concept of infrastructure pp. 134-142

Alex Christian

Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control pp. 142-145

Sevde Nur Unal

Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present pp. 146-149

Agustin Ferrari Braun