Journal of Cultural Economy

Article	Citations
Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing	62
Articulating value(s): problematizing financial moralities in impact investments	31
Reflections on representing Black Britain	19
Post-neoliberal bananas	18
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour	17
Mediating and mapping climate risk: micro-insurance and earth observation	16
Pardoning Kaçak : politics of building amnesties and the making of the (im)moral urban economy in Istanbul	16
Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through	15
Biowaste as fluid matter: valuing biogas and biofertilisers as assets in the Finnish biogas sector	14
From Malthus to planetary boundaries: the genealogy of ‘carrying capacity’ as a political technology	14
The CEO myth on social media: how digital entrepreneurship transforms aspirations among marginalised workers	13
Outlining startup culture as a global form	13
Paranoid Finance, Paranoid Media, Paranoid Readings	12
Responsibilization of care: tensions over health, insurance and the family in Brazil	12
Intermediaries, mediators and digital advertising’s tensions	12
COVID relief as ‘dangerous money’ for Black business owners	12
Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms	12
The frontier in heterogeneous time: finance, temporality, and an economic zone on hold	11
Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries	11
Trusting elections: complexities and risks of digital voting in Denmark	11
(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry	10
Undoing cultural studies: cultural economy at the Open University (1979–1997)	10
The taste of homemade: trusting ‘healthy’ food on app-based delivery services in Hyderabad, India	10
From ‘take-ism’ to pursuit of newness and originality: design professionals and models of creativity in contemporary China	9
Marketing: A Sociological Approach	9

Cryptofinancial imaginaries: how neoliberal theories are materialized in the technical principles of cryptocurrencies	9
Making life ‘platform ready’: care and platform economy beyond the multisided market	9
Partners in crime: smuggling economies ( Kaçak/Qaçax ) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands	8
Culture or commerce? Craft as an ambiguous construction between culture and economy	8
Fractured insurance families: securing care and navigating financialized social protections	8
Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling	7
Interrogating ‘healthy markets’ as a collectively concerned market: humanitarian procurement and market shaping for global nutrition outcomes	7
Green bond market practices: exploring the moral ‘balance’ of environmental and financial values	7
Karl Polanyi’s theory of fictitious commodification as a cultural political economy of institutionalization	7
Body, beauty, enrichment: Theorizing the rise of the cosmetic industry through Boltanski and Esquerre's framework of enrichment	7
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World	7
Bridging governmentality and economization: temporality as a financialization device	7
The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures	6
Counting chickens before they hatch: transformational accounting in a development cash transfer program	6
Market-Oriented Disinformation Research: Digital Advertising, Disinformation, and Fake News on Social Media	6
Socio-technical arrangements, commercial banks’ power, and central banks: the rebuilding of the payment card system in Israel	6
The haptic visuality of financial trading	6
The prices of development. An ethnographic account of a randomized pricing experiment in East Africa	6
Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan	6
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform	6
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur	5
Digital pirates: policing intellectual property in Brazil	5
Calculating care: the valuation of medical routes while health seeking in Vietnam	5
Contract as frontier device, or, the political publics of water infrastructures	5
Ruling by valuations: market-making, and property assessment in data-scarce occupied East Jerusalem	5
‘Investments in the Kingdom of Christ’: home missionary fundraising and investor capitalism in the late-nineteenth-century USA	5
Conditions of emergence for compliance capitalism: competition, climate, and the politics of future-oriented valuation devices	5
Upgrade Culture and Technological Change: The Business of the Future	5
Waste/economy/ecology: redrawing the circular economy	5
What was the project? Thoughts on genre and the project form	5
Finding legal meaning in economic history, by way of sociology: endings and beginnings	5
Economic sociology and the far-right	5
Entertaining the stock market and speculative communities: South Korea's television-financial complex and Kakao's March of the Ants	5
Does social media pay for music artists? Quantitative evidence on the co-evolution of social media, streaming and live music	4
From universal taxpayer to fiscal hierarchies: personal income tax reform in Poland’s transformation	4
Poor counts as viable accounts: numbers, forecasting, and routinization in Greece	4
Traditional banks go digital: how incumbents are shaping digital financialisation in Brazil	4
The role of training institutions in fostering embedded local knowledge and production skills: the cultural economy of fashion in Toronto and Montreal	4
Performing hard money: monetary policy, metaphor and masculinity in the making of EMU	4
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 (pape	4
From drafts to drafting: genre work, time, and the fragility of managerial expertise in South Korea	4
Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought: Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice	4
Racial imaginaries: death, family, and the future in life insurance sales	4
Platforming pickiness: the digitally mediated enactment of childhood avoidant eating	4
Competitization: the proliferation of competition as a multidimensional process	4
Fintech and tax in Sub-Saharan Africa: taxation versus financial inclusion	3
Banal entrepreneurialism: the media-cultural idolization of startup entrepreneurship and its saturation in Finland	3
Finance and care	3
Questioning the disposability of plastic packaging: Consumer challenges to fresh food packaging market devices and their afterlives	3
Accumulation mode and political interests of alternative finance and asset management: are they the same actors? Do they want the same thing?	3

‘How much is too much?’: dynamically priced tickets and algorithm agency on the Ticketmaster platform	3
Symposium on ‘Do ethnographers make markets?’	3
After abundance: bringing ends, limits and geopolitics back into sociological thinking about marketing	3
Crowdfunding care in Kenya	3
Consumption work in household circular economy activities: findings from a cultural probe experiment	3
The algorithmic principal: agencement, infrastructure, and the material construction of AI economic sovereignty	3
Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present	3
Criticism and schizophrenia	3
A response to comments on Marketing: A Sociological Approach	3
Reading Callon at Zuccotti Park	3
Business of involution: self-study rooms and work culture in China	3
How to be tidal: designing with waste streams as matter in flow and matter of value	3
Introduction: genre work and the new economy	3
More trouble than previously thought	3
ESG investments, economic moralities, and data-driven ethics in the age of sustainability	2
Sensuous Abstraction: hip-hop, money and the popular	2
From rag market to creative economy: interview with Angela McRobbie	2
From fashion blogger to media professional: networked blogfriends, proximity privilege and making a media career from the North American fashion blogipelago	2
Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis	2
Rendering transparent and opaque: the materiality of green, social and sustainability bonds	2
Tending the infinite garden: organizational culture in the Ethereum ecosystem	2
Who can see the men behind the curtain?	2
Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis	2
‘Guaranteed contraband’: a cultural biography of kaçak tea in Gaziantep’s Iranian bazaar	2
Until every pet has a home: fuzzy finances in American animal rescue economies	2
The politics of climate risk: How the climate issue is turned into a risk issue through the little tools and operations of finance	2
Genres are the drive belts of the job market	2
Houdini and the magic of logistics	2
The formalisation of academic subjectivity under constant performance assessment	2
‘I’m not going to feed the bailiffs’: personal bankruptcy and debtor agency in narrative accounts of struggling debtors	2
FinTech in Africa: an editorial introduction	2
Interventions and dissonance in industrial research: dressing the emperor in new clothes?	2
The center’s ‘invisible back support’: infrastructuring labor behind virtual assistants in the Philippines	2
Astrological speculation on Wall Street	2
Statement of Retraction: Interrogating the traditional ethics and values of religious fundraising strategies of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo (Southwest Nigeria)	2
The time-making capacity of the technology industry and its consequences for public life	2
Abetting the market: on property, propriety and actually existing capitalisms	2
From scarce resources to ‘the good economy’: a new ‘version of economization’ replacing Weber’s rational ascetism as the capitalist spirit?	2
RETRACTED: ‘Orunmila needs a new house’: religious fundraising and the revitalisation of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo in southwest Nigeria	2
Platforms or flatforms? Insights from an auto-ethnographic account of a virtual cycling app	2
Michel Callon (1945–2025): A life with passion for economies	2
“Every dollar has its own problem”: discrepant dollars and the social topography of fungibility in multi-currency era Zimbabwe (2009–2019)	2
Do ethnographers make markets? Cultural economy after collaboration	2
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence	2
Pan African capital? Banks, currencies, and imperial power	2
Reading the signs: on inferential semiotics and market imagination	2
New genres and obsolete expertise in the new textiles economy	2
(Re-)assembling the gilt-edged market: quantification, model misfire, and the politics of expertise in post war Britain	1
What is a financial frontier?	1
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 ocean	1
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
Parental investment and the economization of parenting	1
Tales of light and darkness: a response to comments on The Ordinal Society	1
Financial models as artefacts: performativity, representation, and the many lives of the Black–Scholes–Merton model	1
Global warming as investment climate: green tech and the translation of needs	1
Authors on the other side	1
Regulating chance: Buddhist temple lotteries, government oversight, and anti-Buddhist discourse in early modern Japan	1
Computing trust: on writing ‘good’ code in computer science education	1
Pacific dialogue ( talanoa ) at the International Maritime Organization	1
Trading in the end times: keeping faith in financial markets	1
Forecasts. A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster	1
Marketing science fictions: an ethnography of marketing analytics, consumer insight, and data science	1
How dare they? Neoliberal resentment and carbon taxes in Alberta, Canada	1
Storying Indigenous cryptocurrency: reckoning with the ghosts of US settler colonialism in the cultural economy	1
Domestic values: gendered labor and the uncanniness of critique in marketing life insurance for women	1
Author response: on the conditions of possibility of asset-manager society	1
How the living shapes markets: accounting for the action of biological entities in market agencing	1
Pitching agri-food tech: performativity and non-disruptive disruption in Silicon Valley	1
Non-fungible tokens of art, fungible tokens for gambling: the gallery and casino chronotope in the Chinese NFT scene, 2022–2023	1
Thinking with waste to know the economic	1
Financial frontiers: borders, conversions, enclosures	1
Trusts at the financial frontier: the flickering forms of property, water, and governance	1
Ethnographic interventions and thought paradigms at a governmental revenue service	1
Supply-chain alienation and constructive counter-movements	1
My attachment to Michel Callon’s markets	1
Is it possible to imagine the future without computers?	1
The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube	1
Between data, faith and activism: ambivalent professional performances generating social finance	1
The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media	1
‘To the moon!’: Elon Musk, Dogecoin, and the political economy of charismatic leadership	1

Car production supply chain regulations: On the gap between the global and the local	1
Thinking infrastructures and the promise of infrastructure: towards advancing the concept of infrastructure	1
Kaçak electricity: negotiating rights and privileges in the Ottoman Empire during the imperialist era	1
‘Take Care of Stray Cats’: biopolitical life ethics and its cosmopolitical countermethod	1
Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium	1
Decolonial Imaginings: Intersectional Conversations and Contestations	1
Working on working women: the postfeminist mystification of employable femininity in post-crisis Spain	1
AI as justification devices: wellbeing and the datafied world in the Chilean context	1
The moral economies of natural disasters insurance: solidarity or individual responsibility?	1
Models in the circular economy: envisioning waste’s potential	1
Digital food rating, caring dietary styles, and identity: a study of plant-based restaurant reviews	1
Bankminded: Banks as Intimate Agents of Everyday Life in Welfare State Sweden	1
Lumpen utopia: money, livestreaming, and labor in emerging media worlds	1
Plasticine Music – or the intimate social life of cultural objects	1
The infrastructures of relational work: consuming commodified intimacies in China’s contested idol industry	1
For the refusal of unpayable debts: an artists’ roundtable with Dele Adeyemo, Ahmed Isamaldin, Bahar Noorizadeh, and Gary Zhexi Zhang	1
Response to reviewers: updating Alt-Finance with the literatures on patrimonialism, asset manager capitalism, and blocs	1
Shares, land, and market	1
Provocation Soil Trust: designing economies inside an interspecies world of feeders	1
The order of things beyond Foucault and our categories to make sense of it	1
The denial of moral complexity: accusations against migrant waste pickers by Turkish scrap dealers in Istanbul	1
Keith Hart (1943–2025) remembered by José Ossandón	1
Space and Organizing on Spatial Agencing	1
Monetized socialization on the front end: exchanging money as social activities through Red Packet and Transfer on WeChat	1
‘We must spray’: Nigerian owanbe parties and the redesigning of the naira	1
Open for business: the discursive diffusion of regulatory sandboxes for fintech innovation	1
Configuring ethical food consumers: understanding the failures of digital food platforms	1
Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London , by Caroline Knowles, London, Penguin Books, 2022, 320 pp., £25.00(paperback), ISBN:	1
A Yorkstone Godzilla. A materiality of mutuality at the Halifax Building Society, 1968–1974	1