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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Pitching agri-food tech: performativity and non-disruptive disruption in Silicon Valley	36
Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa	24
Biopolitical platforms: the perverse virtues of digital labour	24
The fabrication of environmental intangibles as a questionable response to environmental problems	21
Whose money? Digital remittances, mobile money and fintech in Ghana	19
The making of the corporate carbon footprint: the politics behind emission scoping	18
‘Level up your money game’: an analysis of gamification discourse in financial services	18
Enrolling into exclusion: African blockchain and decolonial ambitions in an evolving finance/security infrastructure	17
FinTech and women’s entrepreneurship in Africa: the case of Burkina Faso and Cameroon	16
Infrastructural power: discretion and the dynamics of infrastructure in action	16
Financial contagion: problems of proximity and connectivity in financial markets	15
The myths and legends of king Satoshi and the knights of blockchain	14
Fintech urbanism in the startup capital of Africa	14
Platformizing Ubuntu? FinTech, Inclusion, and Mutual Help in Africa	11
Negotiating platformisation: MusicTech, intellectual property rights and third wave platform reintermediation in the music industry	11
Tracking lives, forging markets	10
A market infrastructure for environmental intangibles: the materiality and challenges of index insurance for agriculture in Senegal	10
Consumption work in household circular economy activities: findings from a cultural probe experiment	9
Financial untouchability: a polysemic narrative of digital financial inclusion in Modi’s India	9
Playing Spotify’s game: artists’ approaches to playlisting in Latin America	9
FinTech in Africa: an editorial introduction	9
When tales of money fail: the importance of price, trust, and sociality for cryptocurrency users	9
Tales of carbon offsets: between experiments and indulgences?	9
What is a financial frontier?	8
Experiments in co-modification: a relational take on the becoming of commodities and the making of market value	8

The politics of value revisited: commodities, assets, and the gifts of nature	7
Valuing value in urban live music ecologies: negotiating the impact of live music in the Netherlands	7
High net-worth attachments: emotional labour, relational work, and financial subjectivities in private wealth management	7
Conservation, finance, bureaucrats: managing time and space in the production of environmental intangibles	7
Deleuze in the wild: making philosophy matter for fintech	6
The mutability of economic things	6
Platform sabotage	5
Finding the sweet spot: critiquing a cultural ecosystems approach to civic cultural strategy making	5
The financialization of anti-capitalism? The case of the ‘Financial Independence Retire Early’ community	5
Financial frontiers: borders, conversions, enclosures	5
The Round Table on Responsible Soy’s Landnahme: converting sustainable practices into tradable intangibles to protect the environment	5
Doing economics otherwise, from one crisis to the next	5
Managing oil theft: socio-material relations, debt, and disruption in Southeastern Turkey	5
Mediating and mapping climate risk: micro-insurance and earth observation	5
Fintech and tax in Sub-Saharan Africa: taxation versus financial inclusion	4
Cultural work and contributive justice	4
‘A video or a flat fee?’ on the performances of concert fees	4
Working for your own folks: the microeconomics of social media	4
The significance of boring FinTech: technology imaginaries and value vernaculars in established banks	4
Economic under-determination: industrial competitiveness and free allowances in the European carbon market	4
What was the project? Thoughts on genre and the project form	4
Murky moralities: performing markets in a charitable food aid organization	4
Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling	4
Financial capital and ghosts of empire: editorial	4
Individual pension decision-making in a financialised landscape: a typology of everyday approaches	4
The engineering of stock market indices: winners and losers	3
Toward cultural and creative industry: Chinese eSports through a business ecosystem lens	3
Derivative character investments: social impact bonds as path-changing devices	3
Storying Indigenous cryptocurrency: reckoning with the ghosts of US settler colonialism in the cultural economy	3
Does social media pay for music artists? Quantitative evidence on the co-evolution of social media, streaming and live music	3
Speculating on precarious income: finance cultures and the risky strategies of healthy volunteers in clinical drug trials	3
The interpretive and relational work of financial innovation: a resemblance of assurance in Islamic finance	3
Finance: cultural or political?	3
Nudge goes to Silicon Valley: designing for the disengaged and the irrational	3
New financializations, old displacements: neo-extractivism, ‘whitening’, and consumption in Latin America	3
Calculating care: the valuation of medical routes while health seeking in Vietnam	3
How app companies use GitHub: on modes of valuation in the digital attention economy	3
Commodity and the commons: accumulations of capital on the space frontier	3
Introduction: the tale as a special discourse vehicle	3
The frontier in heterogeneous time: finance, temporality, and an economic zone on hold	3
PardoningKaçak: politics of building amnesties and the making of the (im)moral urban economy in Istanbul	3
Distributed accountability: picking a carbon price for cost–benefit analysis	2
Outlining startup culture as a global form	2
Biowaste as fluid matter: valuing biogas and biofertilisers as assets in the Finnish biogas sector	2
Debt trails: following relations of debt across borrowers, organizations, and states	2
Digitizing other markets: lessons from the Bush Internet of Island Melanesia	2
Securing participation in global pork production networks: biosecurity, multispecies entanglements, and the politics of domestication practices	2
From collateral to money: social meaning, security devices and the law in the depersonalization of monetary relationships	2
Legitimation crisis in contemporary technoscientific capitalism	2
From ‘take-ism’ to pursuit of newness and originality: design professionals and models of creativity in contemporary China	2

The figural space of the business simulacrum: examining an educative change management simulation	2
Leaning in or falling over? Epistemological liminality and the knowledges that make a market	2
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour	2
The stakes of religious fundraising: economic transition and religious resurgence in Irish Catholicism and Tibetan Buddhism	2
From small to big data: (mis)uses of insurance premium for the government of hazards	2
Pan African capital? Banks, currencies, and imperial power	2
Kaçak as a mode of feeling and being: sovereignty, fantasy, and the undercommons	2
The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures	2
From rag market to creative economy: interview with Angela McRobbie	2
A story of its own: creating singular gift-commodities for voluntary carbon markets	2
Computing trust: on writing ‘good’ code in computer science education	2
Reflections on representing Black Britain	2
The politics of mediation: subjectivity, value and power in the digital grid of Aadhaar	2
Contract as frontier device, or, the political publics of water infrastructures	2
Gendered Relational Work: How gender shapes money attitudes and expectations of young adults	2
Materialising reform: how conservation encounters collection practises in zoos	2
Relational finance: Ottoman debt, financialization, and the problem of the semi-civilized	2
Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan	2
From reactivity to reputation management: online consumer review systems in the restaurant industry	2
Spectrally shape-shifting: biometrics, fintech and the corporate-state in India	2
Partners in crime: smuggling economies ( Kaçak/Qaçax ) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands	2
Making uncertainty operable: social coordination through game theory in decentralized finance	2
Performing hard money: monetary policy, metaphor and masculinity in the making of EMU	1
Kaçak \| qaçax \| قاچاق : fugitive forms of bureaucracy and economy across Southwest Asia	1
Smartphones for drugs: exchange relations in a South African gang since apartheid	1
‘Orunmila needs a new house’: religious fundraising and the revitalisation of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo in southwest Nigeria	1
Provocation Soil Trust: designing economies inside an interspecies world of feeders	1
‘Investments in the Kingdom of Christ’: home missionary fundraising and investor capitalism in the late-nineteenth-century USA	1
Business of involution: self-study rooms and work culture in China	1
Ten little jurors in the training camp: a genealogy of audience simulation	1
Strategic ambiguity: a roundtable on cultural economy and consumer culture	1
Viviana Zelizer’s work as inspiration for a public sociology of money	1
Buy Now, Pay Later technologies and the gamification of debt in the financial lives of young people	1
Towards a sociology of stranded assets	1
Forward guidance and the semiotic turn of the European Central Bank	1
Digitizing death: commodification of joss paper on Chinese online cemetery	1
Cultural revolutions: interview with Paul du Gay and Michael Pryke	1
Compounding financial frontiers: capital seeds and seeds for capital	1
‘Driving is terrifying’: auto-mobility horizons, projections and networks in Vietnam and ASEAN	1
Knowing and governing America: the micro-foundations of a calculative infrastructure	1
Characterising assurance: scepticism and mistrust in cyber security	1
A Yorkstone Godzilla. A materiality of mutuality at the Halifax Building Society, 1968–1974	1
Genres are the drive belts of the job market	1
Out of time: the temporal limits of coronavirus-inspired solidarity with workers	1
“Every dollar has its own problem”: discrepant dollars and the social topography of fungibility in multi-currency era Zimbabwe (2009–2019)	1
Parental investment and the economization of parenting	1
Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through	1
Keeping the market afloat: attachments, circuits of clientele, and personalized commodity exchanges in rural shopkeeping	1
A financial frontier for Catalonia: nationalism in times of austerity	1
KnowingThe Unknowers	1
Banking on gold in Vietnam	1
Grounded circularity: the livelihoods of surplus clay	1
Monastic Buddhist asset capitalization in ancient Sri Lanka	1
Transparent constructions: genre translations in building the New India	1
Phaticity as a technical mystique: the genred, multi-sited mediation of the innovation architect’s expertise	1
How the living shapes markets: accounting for the action of biological entities in market agencing	1
Waste/economy/ecology: redrawing the circular economy	1
Accumulation mode and political interests of alternative finance and asset management: are they the same actors? Do they want the same thing?	1
Models in the circular economy: envisioning waste’s potential	1
How to be tidal: designing with waste streams as matter in flow and matter of value	1
Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing	1
For the refusal of unpayable debts: an artists’ roundtable with Dele Adeyemo, Ahmed Isamaldin, Bahar Noorizadeh, and Gary Zhexi Zhang	1
Lumpen utopia: money, livestreaming, and labor in emerging media worlds	1
Green bond market practices: exploring the moral ‘balance’ of environmental and financial values	1
Finding legal meaning in economic history, by way of sociology: endings and beginnings	1
Screening for eligibility: access and resistance in Istanbul’s food banks	1
Come and see Guatemala at Macy’s! Indigenous aesthetics and informal empire on display in the heart of the American home	1
Perspectives on cultural economy: personal, institutional, historical	1
Regulating chance: Buddhist temple lotteries, government oversight, and anti-Buddhist discourse in early modern Japan	1
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism	1
‘To the moon!’: Elon Musk, Dogecoin, and the political economy of charismatic leadership	1
The Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion: Mobile Money, Gendered Walls	1
Working on working women: the postfeminist mystification of employable femininity in post-crisis Spain	1