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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing21
Post-neoliberal bananas20
Reflections on representing Black Britain20
Articulating value(s): problematizing financial moralities in impact investments20
From Malthus to planetary boundaries: the genealogy of ‘carrying capacity’ as a political technology17
The CEO myth on social media: how digital entrepreneurship transforms aspirations among marginalised workers16
Biowaste as fluid matter: valuing biogas and biofertilisers as assets in the Finnish biogas sector16
Outlining startup culture as a global form14
Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms14
Responsibilization of care: tensions over health, insurance and the family in Brazil14
Intermediaries, mediators and digital advertising’s tensions13
Pardoning Kaçak : politics of building amnesties and the making of the (im)moral urban economy in Istanbul13
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour12
Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries12
Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through12
COVID relief as ‘dangerous money’ for Black business owners12
Paranoid Finance, Paranoid Media, Paranoid Readings12
Trusting elections: complexities and risks of digital voting in Denmark11
The frontier in heterogeneous time: finance, temporality, and an economic zone on hold11
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, India10
(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry10
Cryptofinancial imaginaries: how neoliberal theories are materialized in the technical principles of cryptocurrencies9
Marketing: A Sociological Approach9
Making life ‘platform ready’: care and platform economy beyond the multisided market9
From ‘take-ism’ to pursuit of newness and originality: design professionals and models of creativity in contemporary China8
Interrogating ‘healthy markets’ as a collectively concerned market: humanitarian procurement and market shaping for global nutrition outcomes8
Fractured insurance families: securing care and navigating financialized social protections8
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World7
Partners in crime: smuggling economies ( Kaçak/Qaçax ) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands7
Karl Polanyi’s theory of fictitious commodification as a cultural political economy of institutionalization7
Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling7
Body, beauty, enrichment: Theorizing the rise of the cosmetic industry through Boltanski and Esquerre's framework of enrichment7
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
The prices of development. An ethnographic account of a randomized pricing experiment in East Africa6
Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan6
Counting chickens before they hatch: transformational accounting in a development cash transfer program6
The haptic visuality of financial trading6
Bridging governmentality and economization: temporality as a financialization device6
The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures6
Socio-technical arrangements, commercial banks’ power, and central banks: the rebuilding of the payment card system in Israel6
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform5
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur5
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
Economic sociology and the far-right5
Market-Oriented Disinformation Research: Digital Advertising, Disinformation, and Fake News on Social Media5
‘On its arse!’ – interrogating the state of the UK’s plastic packaging recycling market5
Finding legal meaning in economic history, by way of sociology: endings and beginnings5
Conditions of emergence for compliance capitalism: competition, climate, and the politics of future-oriented valuation devices5
‘Investments in the Kingdom of Christ’: home missionary fundraising and investor capitalism in the late-nineteenth-century USA5
Waste/economy/ecology: redrawing the circular economy5
Ruling by valuations: market-making, and property assessment in data-scarce occupied East Jerusalem5
Calculating care: the valuation of medical routes while health seeking in Vietnam5
Contract as frontier device, or, the political publics of water infrastructures5
The role of training institutions in fostering embedded local knowledge and production skills: the cultural economy of fashion in Toronto and Montreal4
From universal taxpayer to fiscal hierarchies: personal income tax reform in Poland’s transformation4
A good drainage economy: the elemental politics of Dutch carbon farming4
A response to comments on Marketing: A Sociological Approach4
Symposium on ‘Do ethnographers make markets?’4
Upgrade Culture and Technological Change: The Business of the Future4
Racial imaginaries: death, family, and the future in life insurance sales4
Platforming pickiness: the digitally mediated enactment of childhood avoidant eating4
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
Banal entrepreneurialism: the media-cultural idolization of startup entrepreneurship and its saturation in Finland4
Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought: Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice4
Does social media pay for music artists? Quantitative evidence on the co-evolution of social media, streaming and live music4
Poor counts as viable accounts: numbers, forecasting, and routinization in Greece4
Competitization: the proliferation of competition as a multidimensional process4
From drafts to drafting: genre work, time, and the fragility of managerial expertise in South Korea4
Traditional banks go digital: how incumbents are shaping digital financialisation in Brazil3
After abundance: bringing ends, limits and geopolitics back into sociological thinking about marketing3
How to be tidal: designing with waste streams as matter in flow and matter of value3
Reading Callon at Zuccotti Park3
Finance and care3
‘Guaranteed contraband’: a cultural biography of kaçak tea in Gaziantep’s Iranian bazaar3
Do ethnographers make markets? Cultural economy after collaboration3
The time-making capacity of the technology industry and its consequences for public life3
Crowdfunding care in Kenya3
The algorithmic principal: agencement, infrastructure, and the material construction of AI economic sovereignty3
Questioning the disposability of plastic packaging: Consumer challenges to fresh food packaging market devices and their afterlives3
Accumulation mode and political interests of alternative finance and asset management: are they the same actors? Do they want the same thing?3
Statement of Retraction: Interrogating the traditional ethics and values of religious fundraising strategies of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo (Southwest Nigeria)3
Until every pet has a home: fuzzy finances in American animal rescue economies3
More trouble than previously thought3
Business of involution: self-study rooms and work culture in China3
‘How much is too much?’: dynamically priced tickets and algorithm agency on the Ticketmaster platform3
Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present3
Introduction: genre work and the new economy3
Criticism and schizophrenia3
Pan African capital? Banks, currencies, and imperial power3
Rendering transparent and opaque: the materiality of green, social and sustainability bonds2
The formalisation of academic subjectivity under constant performance assessment2
Plasticine Music – or the intimate social life of cultural objects2
Regulating chance: Buddhist temple lotteries, government oversight, and anti-Buddhist discourse in early modern Japan2
From fashion blogger to media professional: networked blogfriends, proximity privilege and making a media career from the North American fashion blogipelago2
Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis2
RETRACTED: ‘Orunmila needs a new house’: religious fundraising and the revitalisation of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo in southwest Nigeria2
The politics of climate risk: How the climate issue is turned into a risk issue through the little tools and operations of finance2
The center’s ‘invisible back support’: infrastructuring labor behind virtual assistants in the Philippines2
Interventions and dissonance in industrial research: dressing the emperor in new clothes?2
‘I’m not going to feed the bailiffs’: personal bankruptcy and debtor agency in narrative accounts of struggling debtors2
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 ocean2
From scarce resources to ‘the good economy’: a new ‘version of economization’ replacing Weber’s rational ascetism as the capitalist spirit?2
My attachment to Michel Callon’s markets2
From rag market to creative economy: interview with Angela McRobbie2
ESG investments, economic moralities, and data-driven ethics in the age of sustainability2
Genres are the drive belts of the job market2
New genres and obsolete expertise in the new textiles economy2
Astrological speculation on Wall Street2
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence2
Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis2
Ethnographic interventions and thought paradigms at a governmental revenue service2
Financial models as artefacts: performativity, representation, and the many lives of the Black–Scholes–Merton model2
Sensuous Abstraction: hip-hop, money and the popular2
Response to reviewers: updating Alt-Finance with the literatures on patrimonialism, asset manager capitalism, and blocs2
Houdini and the magic of logistics2
Platforms or flatforms? Insights from an auto-ethnographic account of a virtual cycling app2
“Every dollar has its own problem”: discrepant dollars and the social topography of fungibility in multi-currency era Zimbabwe (2009–2019)2
Michel Callon (1945–2025): A life with passion for economies2
Reading the signs: on inferential semiotics and market imagination2
Tending the infinite garden: organizational culture in the Ethereum ecosystem2
Who can see the men behind the curtain?2
Pacific dialogue ( talanoa ) at the International Maritime Organization1
Zap saang: skills reassemblage and improvised survival among Hong Kong independent publishers under precarious conditions1
Authors on the other side1
Open for business: the discursive diffusion of regulatory sandboxes for fintech innovation1
Thinking with waste to know the economic1
Shares, land, and market1
Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium1
Digital food rating, caring dietary styles, and identity: a study of plant-based restaurant reviews1
Computing trust: on writing ‘good’ code in computer science education1
‘To the moon!’: Elon Musk, Dogecoin, and the political economy of charismatic leadership1
What is a financial frontier?1
How the living shapes markets: accounting for the action of biological entities in market agencing1
Working on working women: the postfeminist mystification of employable femininity in post-crisis Spain1
Provocation Soil Trust: designing economies inside an interspecies world of feeders1
Supply-chain alienation and constructive counter-movements1
Out of time: the temporal limits of coronavirus-inspired solidarity with workers1
Marketing science fictions: an ethnography of marketing analytics, consumer insight, and data science1
Space and Organizing on Spatial Agencing1
Storying Indigenous cryptocurrency: reckoning with the ghosts of US settler colonialism in the cultural economy1
Trusts at the financial frontier: the flickering forms of property, water, and governance1
Domestic values: gendered labor and the uncanniness of critique in marketing life insurance for women1
Religion, economic acumen and authority: an ethnographic study of Muslim entrepreneurship in Malabar, India1
Thinking infrastructures and the promise of infrastructure: towards advancing the concept of infrastructure1
For the refusal of unpayable debts: an artists’ roundtable with Dele Adeyemo, Ahmed Isamaldin, Bahar Noorizadeh, and Gary Zhexi Zhang1
Car production supply chain regulations: On the gap between the global and the local1
The moral economies of natural disasters insurance: solidarity or individual responsibility?1
The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media1
Configuring ethical food consumers: understanding the failures of digital food platforms1
Financial frontiers: borders, conversions, enclosures1
Models in the circular economy: envisioning waste’s potential1
Between data, faith and activism: ambivalent professional performances generating social finance1
Parental investment and the economization of parenting1
The denial of moral complexity: accusations against migrant waste pickers by Turkish scrap dealers in Istanbul1
The infrastructures of relational work: consuming commodified intimacies in China’s contested idol industry1
Inventorying data: circumvented investment conditions by Big Tech’s supply chain capitalism1
Ecologizing earth observation: extractivism and the rights of nature in the Ecuadorian Amazon1
How dare they? Neoliberal resentment and carbon taxes in Alberta, Canada1
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
‘We must spray’: Nigerian owanbe parties and the redesigning of the naira1
Trading in the end times: keeping faith in financial markets1
(Re-)assembling the gilt-edged market: quantification, model misfire, and the politics of expertise in post war Britain1
The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube1
Decolonial Imaginings: Intersectional Conversations and Contestations1
A Yorkstone Godzilla. A materiality of mutuality at the Halifax Building Society, 1968–19741
Is it possible to imagine the future without computers?1
Forecasts. A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster1
The order of things beyond Foucault and our categories to make sense of it1
Tales of light and darkness: a response to comments on The Ordinal Society1
Author response: on the conditions of possibility of asset-manager society1
Bankminded: Banks as Intimate Agents of Everyday Life in Welfare State Sweden1
AI as justification devices: wellbeing and the datafied world in the Chilean context1
Global warming as investment climate: green tech and the translation of needs1
Lumpen utopia: money, livestreaming, and labor in emerging media worlds1
Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London , by Caroline Knowles, London, Penguin Books, 2022, 320 pp., £25.00(paperback), ISBN:1
Non-fungible tokens of art, fungible tokens for gambling: the gallery and casino chronotope in the Chinese NFT scene, 2022–20231
Climate Lyricism1
Monetized socialization on the front end: exchanging money as social activities through Red Packet and Transfer on WeChat1
Kaçak electricity: negotiating rights and privileges in the Ottoman Empire during the imperialist era1
Keith Hart (1943–2025) remembered by José Ossandón1
‘Take Care of Stray Cats’: biopolitical life ethics and its cosmopolitical countermethod1
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