Journal of Cultural Economy

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Cultural Economy is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing47
Intermediaries, mediators and digital advertising’s tensions45
Outlining startup culture as a global form31
A poststructuralist who still believes in structures: interview with John Allen26
Reflections on representing Black Britain22
Responsibilization of care: tensions over health, insurance and the family in Brazil21
Pardoning Kaçak : politics of building amnesties and the making of the (im)moral urban economy in Istanbul19
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour18
Mediating and mapping climate risk: micro-insurance and earth observation18
Biowaste as fluid matter: valuing biogas and biofertilisers as assets in the Finnish biogas sector16
Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through16
COVID relief as ‘dangerous money’ for Black business owners13
Alternatives to the performance of economics13
Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms13
Trusting elections: complexities and risks of digital voting in Denmark11
The taste of homemade: trusting ‘healthy’ food on app-based delivery services in Hyderabad, India10
The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand Matory10
Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries10
Cryptofinancial imaginaries: how neoliberal theories are materialized in the technical principles of cryptocurrencies9
Undoing cultural studies: cultural economy at the Open University (1979–1997)9
The frontier in heterogeneous time: finance, temporality, and an economic zone on hold9
Fintech urbanism in the startup capital of Africa8
Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling8
From ‘take-ism’ to pursuit of newness and originality: design professionals and models of creativity in contemporary China8
Fractured insurance families: securing care and navigating financialized social protections8
Partners in crime: smuggling economies ( Kaçak/Qaçax ) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands8
Bridging governmentality and economization: temporality as a financialization device7
Karl Polanyi’s theory of fictitious commodification as a cultural political economy of institutionalization7
Culture or commerce? Craft as an ambiguous construction between culture and economy7
Green bond market practices: exploring the moral ‘balance’ of environmental and financial values6
Capturing Finance: Arbitrage and Social Domination6
Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan6
Strategic ambiguity: a roundtable on cultural economy and consumer culture6
Body, beauty, enrichment: Theorizing the rise of the cosmetic industry through Boltanski and Esquerre's framework of enrichment6
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World6
Introduction: the tale as a special discourse vehicle6
Socio-technical arrangements, commercial banks’ power, and central banks: the rebuilding of the payment card system in Israel6
The haptic visuality of financial trading5
The prices of development. An ethnographic account of a randomized pricing experiment in East Africa5
Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa5
Contract as frontier device, or, the political publics of water infrastructures5
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur5
The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures5
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform5
Digital pirates: policing intellectual property in Brazil5
Entertaining the stock market and speculative communities: South Korea's television-financial complex and Kakao's March of the Ants5
Waste/economy/ecology: redrawing the circular economy5
Counting chickens before they hatch: transformational accounting in a development cash transfer program5
What was the project? Thoughts on genre and the project form5
‘Investments in the Kingdom of Christ’: home missionary fundraising and investor capitalism in the late-nineteenth-century USA5
Repoliticising the future of work: automation and the end of techno-optimism5
Chasing Innovation Chasing Innovation , by Lilly Irani, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2019, 304 pp., £44.00(hardback), ISBN 978-0-691-17513-3 / £14.00 (pape4
Platforming pickiness: the digitally mediated enactment of childhood avoidant eating4
Engendering assemblages: the constitution of digital health data as an epistemic consumption object4
Performing hard money: monetary policy, metaphor and masculinity in the making of EMU4
Does social media pay for music artists? Quantitative evidence on the co-evolution of social media, streaming and live music4
Shouldn’t we all be doing cultural economy?4
Finding legal meaning in economic history, by way of sociology: endings and beginnings4
Upgrade Culture and Technological Change: The Business of the Future4
Valuing value in urban live music ecologies: negotiating the impact of live music in the Netherlands4
From drafts to drafting: genre work, time, and the fragility of managerial expertise in South Korea4
Calculating care: the valuation of medical routes while health seeking in Vietnam4
Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought: Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice4
Tales of carbon offsets: between experiments and indulgences?4
Reading Callon at Zuccotti Park3
Towards interactive perspectives on information gathering: what are resolvable differences?3
Come and see Guatemala at Macy’s! Indigenous aesthetics and informal empire on display in the heart of the American home3
The significance of boring FinTech: technology imaginaries and value vernaculars in established banks3
Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals3
Materialising reform: how conservation encounters collection practises in zoos3
Questioning the disposability of plastic packaging: Consumer challenges to fresh food packaging market devices and their afterlives3
Poor counts as viable accounts: numbers, forecasting, and routinization in Greece3
Fintech and tax in Sub-Saharan Africa: taxation versus financial inclusion3
Crowdfunding care in Kenya3
‘How much is too much?’: dynamically priced tickets and algorithm agency on the Ticketmaster platform3
Pan African capital? Banks, currencies, and imperial power3
Introduction: genre work and the new economy3
The time-making capacity of the technology industry and its consequences for public life3
Competitization: the proliferation of competition as a multidimensional process3
Consumption work in household circular economy activities: findings from a cultural probe experiment3
Business of involution: self-study rooms and work culture in China3
Finance and care3
How to be tidal: designing with waste streams as matter in flow and matter of value3
Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present3
Accumulation mode and political interests of alternative finance and asset management: are they the same actors? Do they want the same thing?3
Until every pet has a home: fuzzy finances in American animal rescue economies3
Abetting the market: on property, propriety and actually existing capitalisms2
“Every dollar has its own problem”: discrepant dollars and the social topography of fungibility in multi-currency era Zimbabwe (2009–2019)2
Ethnographic interventions and thought paradigms at a governmental revenue service2
Rendering transparent and opaque: the materiality of green, social and sustainability bonds2
Leaning in or falling over? Epistemological liminality and the knowledges that make a market2
‘Orunmila needs a new house’: religious fundraising and the revitalisation of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo in southwest Nigeria2
Reading the signs: on inferential semiotics and market imagination2
Genres are the drive belts of the job market2
Negotiating platformisation: MusicTech, intellectual property rights and third wave platform reintermediation in the music industry2
‘I’m not going to feed the bailiffs’: personal bankruptcy and debtor agency in narrative accounts of struggling debtors2
Response to reviewers: updating Alt-Finance with the literatures on patrimonialism, asset manager capitalism, and blocsAlt-Finance: How the City Bought Democracy, by Mar2
The formalisation of academic subjectivity under constant performance assessment2
Platforms or flatforms? Insights from an auto-ethnographic account of a virtual cycling app2
New genres and obsolete expertise in the new textiles economy2
The politics of climate risk: How the climate issue is turned into a risk issue through the little tools and operations of finance2
‘Guaranteed contraband’: a cultural biography of kaçak tea in Gaziantep’s Iranian bazaar2
High net-worth attachments: emotional labour, relational work, and financial subjectivities in private wealth management2
Cultural work and contributive justice2
From scarce resources to ‘the good economy’: a new ‘version of economization’ replacing Weber’s rational ascetism as the capitalist spirit?2
Beyond the Bazaar: Interconnecting Indian Markets2
Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis2
Statement of Retraction: Interrogating the traditional ethics and values of religious fundraising strategies of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo (Southwest Nigeria)2
FinTech in Africa: an editorial introduction2
Interventions and dissonance in industrial research: dressing the emperor in new clothes?2
Financial frontiers: borders, conversions, enclosures1
Finding the sweet spot: critiquing a cultural ecosystems approach to civic cultural strategy making1
Thinking with waste to know the economic1
Shares, land, and market1
Distributed accountability: picking a carbon price for cost–benefit analysis1
A Yorkstone Godzilla. A materiality of mutuality at the Halifax Building Society, 1968–19741
Computing trust: on writing ‘good’ code in computer science education1
The common places of alternative finance: assemblages, stoppages, and the political mobilisation of space1
Global warming as investment climate: green tech and the translation of needs1
Digital food rating, caring dietary styles, and identity: a study of plant-based restaurant reviews1
‘To the moon!’: Elon Musk, Dogecoin, and the political economy of charismatic leadership1
The organizational character of statistical expertise1
From rag market to creative economy: interview with Angela McRobbie1
Statistics, Agriculture, and Democracy in America1
Regulating chance: Buddhist temple lotteries, government oversight, and anti-Buddhist discourse in early modern Japan1
For the refusal of unpayable debts: an artists’ roundtable with Dele Adeyemo, Ahmed Isamaldin, Bahar Noorizadeh, and Gary Zhexi Zhang1
Cultural revolutions: interview with Paul du Gay and Michael Pryke1
The denial of moral complexity: accusations against migrant waste pickers by Turkish scrap dealers in Istanbul1
Local economic planning as a problem for market studies. Notes after Asdal & Huse’s Nature-made economy: cod, capital, and the great economization of the ocean1
Knowing and governing America: the micro-foundations of a calculative infrastructure1
Is it possible to imagine the future without computers?1
The moral economies of natural disasters insurance: solidarity or individual responsibility?1
Space and Organizing on Spatial Agencing1
Commodity and the commons: accumulations of capital on the space frontier1
Trusts at the financial frontier: the flickering forms of property, water, and governance1
Provocation Soil Trust: designing economies inside an interspecies world of feeders1
Pitching agri-food tech: performativity and non-disruptive disruption in Silicon Valley1
Digitizing death: commodification of joss paper on Chinese online cemetery1
Configuring ethical food consumers: understanding the failures of digital food platforms1
Whose money? Digital remittances, mobile money and fintech in Ghana1
My attachment to Michel Callon’s markets1
‘Driving is terrifying’: auto-mobility horizons, projections and networks in Vietnam and ASEAN1
Houdini and the magic of logistics1
Parental investment and the economization of parenting1
Forecasts. A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster1
The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media1
What is a financial frontier?1
How the living shapes markets: accounting for the action of biological entities in market agencing1
Platformizing Ubuntu? FinTech, Inclusion, and Mutual Help in Africa1
Windows into the ethically made: affect, value, and the ‘pricing paradox’ in the maker movement1
Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America , by Brendan Ballou, New York, PublicAffairs, 2023, 368 pp., $30.00 (1
Economic Science Fictions1
Working on working women: the postfeminist mystification of employable femininity in post-crisis Spain1
The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube1
Knowing America1
Homeownership in Hong Kong: House Buying as Hope Mechanism1
From collateral to money: social meaning, security devices and the law in the depersonalization of monetary relationships1
Author response: on the conditions of possibility of asset-manager society1
Plasticine Music – or the intimate social life of cultural objects1
Lumpen utopia: money, livestreaming, and labor in emerging media worlds1
From fashion blogger to media professional: networked blogfriends, proximity privilege and making a media career from the North American fashion blogipelago1
Murky moralities: performing markets in a charitable food aid organization1
Models in the circular economy: envisioning waste’s potential1
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