OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing	39
A poststructuralist who still believes in structures: interview with John Allen	31
Biowaste as fluid matter: valuing biogas and biofertilisers as assets in the Finnish biogas sector	26
Reflections on representing Black Britain	26
Responsibilization of care: tensions over health, insurance and the family in Brazil	23
Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms	22
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour	22
Pardoning Kaçak : politics of building amnesties and the making of the (im)moral urban economy in Istanbul	21
Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through	21
Outlining startup culture as a global form	17
Intermediaries, mediators and digital advertising’s tensions	16
Mediating and mapping climate risk: micro-insurance and earth observation	16
Alternatives to the performance of economics	15
COVID relief as ‘dangerous money’ for Black business owners	14
The taste of homemade: trusting ‘healthy’ food on app-based delivery services in Hyderabad, India	12
The frontier in heterogeneous time: finance, temporality, and an economic zone on hold	12
The mutability of economic things	12
The fabrication of environmental intangibles as a questionable response to environmental problems	11
Infrastructural power: discretion and the dynamics of infrastructure in action	11
The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand Matory	10
Fintech urbanism in the startup capital of Africa	9
Undoing cultural studies: cultural economy at the Open University (1979–1997)	9
Trusting elections: complexities and risks of digital voting in Denmark	9
Culture or commerce? Craft as an ambiguous construction between culture and economy	8
From ‘take-ism’ to pursuit of newness and originality: design professionals and models of creativity in contemporary China	8

Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling	8
Cryptofinancial imaginaries: how neoliberal theories are materialized in the technical principles of cryptocurrencies	7
Fractured insurance families: securing care and navigating financialized social protections	7
Capturing Finance: Arbitrage and Social Domination	7
Partners in crime: smuggling economies ( Kaçak/Qaçax ) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands	7
Introduction: the tale as a special discourse vehicle	6
Karl Polanyi’s theory of fictitious commodification as a cultural political economy of institutionalization	5
Green bond market practices: exploring the moral ‘balance’ of environmental and financial values	5
Bridging governmentality and economization: temporality as a financialization device	5
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform	5
Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan	5
Strategic ambiguity: a roundtable on cultural economy and consumer culture	5
The haptic visuality of financial trading	5
Counting chickens before they hatch: transformational accounting in a development cash transfer program	5
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World	5
Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa	5
The prices of development. An ethnographic account of a randomized pricing experiment in East Africa	5
The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures	5
Waste/economy/ecology: redrawing the circular economy	4
Finding legal meaning in economic history, by way of sociology: endings and beginnings	4
‘Investments in the Kingdom of Christ’: home missionary fundraising and investor capitalism in the late-nineteenth-century USA	4
Calculating care: the valuation of medical routes while health seeking in Vietnam	4
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur	4
Repoliticising the future of work: automation and the end of techno-optimism	4
Contract as frontier device, or, the political publics of water infrastructures	4
Upgrade Culture and Technological Change: The Business of the Future	4
What was the project? Thoughts on genre and the project form	4
Engendering assemblages: the constitution of digital health data as an epistemic consumption object	4
Digital pirates: policing intellectual property in Brazil	4
Entertaining the stock market and speculative communities: South Korea's television-financial complex and Kakao's March of the Ants	4
Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought: Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice	4
Crowdfunding care in Kenya	3
Fintech and tax in Sub-Saharan Africa: taxation versus financial inclusion	3
Valuing value in urban live music ecologies: negotiating the impact of live music in the Netherlands	3
Tales of carbon offsets: between experiments and indulgences?	3
Competitization: the proliferation of competition as a multidimensional process	3
Come and see Guatemala at Macy’s! Indigenous aesthetics and informal empire on display in the heart of the American home	3
‘How much is too much?’: dynamically priced tickets and algorithm agency on the Ticketmaster platform	3
Towards interactive perspectives on information gathering: what are resolvable differences?	3
Poor counts as viable accounts: numbers, forecasting, and routinization in Greece	3
Shouldn’t we all be doing cultural economy?	3
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	3
Does social media pay for music artists? Quantitative evidence on the co-evolution of social media, streaming and live music	3
Reading Callon at Zuccotti Park	3
Consumption work in household circular economy activities: findings from a cultural probe experiment	3
Performing hard money: monetary policy, metaphor and masculinity in the making of EMU	3
Platforming pickiness: the digitally mediated enactment of childhood avoidant eating	3
From drafts to drafting: genre work, time, and the fragility of managerial expertise in South Korea	3
The significance of boring FinTech: technology imaginaries and value vernaculars in established banks	3
The time-making capacity of the technology industry and its consequences for public life	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
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
Pan African capital? Banks, currencies, and imperial power	2
Genres are the drive belts of the job market	2
Introduction: genre work and the new economy	2
How to be tidal: designing with waste streams as matter in flow and matter of value	2
Statement of Retraction: Interrogating the traditional ethics and values of religious fundraising strategies of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo (Southwest Nigeria)	2
Interventions and dissonance in industrial research: dressing the emperor in new clothes?	2
Abetting the market: on property, propriety and actually existing capitalisms	2
Reading the signs: on inferential semiotics and market imagination	2
Until every pet has a home: fuzzy finances in American animal rescue economies	2
Questioning the disposability of plastic packaging: Consumer challenges to fresh food packaging market devices and their afterlives	2
Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present	2
Materialising reform: how conservation encounters collection practises in zoos	2
‘Orunmila needs a new house’: religious fundraising and the revitalisation of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo in southwest Nigeria	2
New genres and obsolete expertise in the new textiles economy	2
Leaning in or falling over? Epistemological liminality and the knowledges that make a market	2
High net-worth attachments: emotional labour, relational work, and financial subjectivities in private wealth management	2
Accumulation mode and political interests of alternative finance and asset management: are they the same actors? Do they want the same thing?	2
Business of involution: self-study rooms and work culture in China	2
Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals	2
Digitizing death: commodification of joss paper on Chinese online cemetery	1
Statistics, Agriculture, and Democracy in America	1
Knowing America	1
Houdini and the magic of logistics	1
‘Driving is terrifying’: auto-mobility horizons, projections and networks in Vietnam and ASEAN	1
The making of the corporate carbon footprint: the politics behind emission scoping	1
Murky moralities: performing markets in a charitable food aid organization	1
Homeownership in Hong Kong: House Buying as Hope Mechanism	1
A Yorkstone Godzilla. A materiality of mutuality at the Halifax Building Society, 1968–1974	1
The formalisation of academic subjectivity under constant performance assessment	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
Ethnographic interventions and thought paradigms at a governmental revenue service	1
FinTech in Africa: an editorial introduction	1
“Every dollar has its own problem”: discrepant dollars and the social topography of fungibility in multi-currency era Zimbabwe (2009–2019)	1
Thinking with waste to know the economic	1
‘To the moon!’: Elon Musk, Dogecoin, and the political economy of charismatic leadership	1
What is a financial frontier?	1
From fashion blogger to media professional: networked blogfriends, proximity privilege and making a media career from the North American fashion blogipelago	1
Forecasts. A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster	1
Pitching agri-food tech: performativity and non-disruptive disruption in Silicon Valley	1
Regulating chance: Buddhist temple lotteries, government oversight, and anti-Buddhist discourse in early modern Japan	1
Windows into the ethically made: affect, value, and the ‘pricing paradox’ in the maker movement	1
Whose money? Digital remittances, mobile money and fintech in Ghana	1
For the refusal of unpayable debts: an artists’ roundtable with Dele Adeyemo, Ahmed Isamaldin, Bahar Noorizadeh, and Gary Zhexi Zhang	1
Plasticine Music – or the intimate social life of cultural objects	1
The moral economies of natural disasters insurance: solidarity or individual responsibility?	1
Response to reviewers: updating Alt-Finance with the literatures on patrimonialism, asset manager capitalism, and blocsAlt-Finance: How the City Bought Democracy, by Mar	1
‘I’m not going to feed the bailiffs’: personal bankruptcy and debtor agency in narrative accounts of struggling debtors	1
The organizational character of statistical expertise	1
Negotiating platformisation: MusicTech, intellectual property rights and third wave platform reintermediation in the music industry	1
Parental investment and the economization of parenting	1
Cultural revolutions: interview with Paul du Gay and Michael Pryke	1
Phaticity as a technical mystique: the genred, multi-sited mediation of the innovation architect’s expertise	1
Working on working women: the postfeminist mystification of employable femininity in post-crisis Spain	1
From collateral to money: social meaning, security devices and the law in the depersonalization of monetary relationships	1
Global warming as investment climate: green tech and the translation of needs	1
Provocation Soil Trust: designing economies inside an interspecies world of feeders	1
My attachment to Michel Callon’s markets	1
The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube	1
Beyond the Bazaar: Interconnecting Indian Markets	1
Economic Science Fictions	1
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism	1
The common places of alternative finance: assemblages, stoppages, and the political mobilisation of space	1
From scarce resources to ‘the good economy’: a new ‘version of economization’ replacing Weber’s rational ascetism as the capitalist spirit?	1
Platforms or flatforms? Insights from an auto-ethnographic account of a virtual cycling app	1
Commodity and the commons: accumulations of capital on the space frontier	1
Cultural work and contributive justice	1
From rag market to creative economy: interview with Angela McRobbie	1
Financial frontiers: borders, conversions, enclosures	1
Author response: on the conditions of possibility of asset-manager society	1