Journal of Cultural Economy

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Cultural Economy is 0. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Finding legal meaning in economic history, by way of sociology: endings and beginnings36
Capitalism, Institutions and Social Orders: The Case of Contemporary Spain24
Digital pirates: policing intellectual property in Brazil24
Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance21
Visibility and vulnerability in online marketing practices19
Cultural work and contributive justice18
Gendered Relational Work: How gender shapes money attitudes and expectations of young adults18
A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City17
Oracular power and the architects of the future16
Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through16
“Every dollar has its own problem”: discrepant dollars and the social topography of fungibility in multi-currency era Zimbabwe (2009–2019)14
Ten little jurors in the training camp: a genealogy of audience simulation14
Lumpen utopia: money, livestreaming, and labor in emerging media worlds14
The stakes of religious fundraising: economic transition and religious resurgence in Irish Catholicism and Tibetan Buddhism11
Contract as frontier device, or, the political publics of water infrastructures9
New genres and obsolete expertise in the new textiles economy9
FinTech in Africa: an editorial introduction9
Biowaste as fluid matter: valuing biogas and biofertilisers as assets in the Finnish biogas sector9
Platformizing Ubuntu? FinTech, Inclusion, and Mutual Help in Africa9
Abetting the market: on property, propriety and actually existing capitalisms9
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 (8
Charitable assets: social outcomes, financial values, and the new, nonprofit funding regime7
Environmentalism polluted: consumerism and complicity in Studio Ghibli’s media mix7
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour6
Prototyping to turn policy into design. (Co)modification of a serious game in the French education system6
Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing5
‘Investments in the Kingdom of Christ’: home missionary fundraising and investor capitalism in the late-nineteenth-century USA5
The plot to disembed: markets in the subjunctive tense5
Engendering assemblages: the constitution of digital health data as an epistemic consumption object5
Genres are the drive belts of the job market5
The politics of mediation: subjectivity, value and power in the digital grid of Aadhaar5
Leaning in or falling over? Epistemological liminality and the knowledges that make a market4
Distributed accountability: picking a carbon price for cost–benefit analysis4
Outlining startup culture as a global form4
A poststructuralist who still believes in structures: interview with John Allen4
‘Level up your money game’: an analysis of gamification discourse in financial services4
Space and Organizing on Spatial Agencing4
Negotiating platformisation: MusicTech, intellectual property rights and third wave platform reintermediation in the music industry4
Trusts at the financial frontier: the flickering forms of property, water, and governance4
Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms4
Pardoning Kaçak : politics of building amnesties and the making of the (im)moral urban economy in Istanbul4
Mediating and mapping climate risk: micro-insurance and earth observation4
‘Orunmila needs a new house’: religious fundraising and the revitalisation of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo in southwest Nigeria4
Reflections on representing Black Britain3
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Interrogating the traditional ethics and values of religious fundraising strategies of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo (Southwest Nigeria)3
Models in the circular economy: envisioning waste’s potential3
Market devices and infrastructures: how they differ and why it matters3
Intermediaries, mediators and digital advertising’s tensions3
Repoliticising the future of work: automation and the end of techno-optimism3
Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis3
The figural space of the business simulacrum: examining an educative change management simulation3
Technologies of Speculation: The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society3
How to be not economic: abundance and the history of strolling3
Calculating care: the valuation of medical routes while health seeking in Vietnam3
Shouldn’t we all be doing cultural economy?3
Undoing cultural studies: cultural economy at the Open University (1979–1997)3
Transmuting solidarity: hybrid-economic practices in the social economy in Greece3
The frontier in heterogeneous time: finance, temporality, and an economic zone on hold2
Review Symposium: Michel Callon’s Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation . Zone Books2
Financial untouchability: a polysemic narrative of digital financial inclusion in Modi’s India2
Making uncertainty operable: social coordination through game theory in decentralized finance2
Alternatives to the performance of economics2
The story of work: a new history of Humankind2
Lagging and leading genres of the new economy2
How the living shapes markets: accounting for the action of biological entities in market agencing2
Finding the sweet spot: critiquing a cultural ecosystems approach to civic cultural strategy making2
The mutability of economic things2
Platforming pickiness: the digitally mediated enactment of childhood avoidant eating2
The fabrication of environmental intangibles as a questionable response to environmental problems2
COVID relief as ‘dangerous money’ for Black business owners2
The taste of homemade: trusting ‘healthy’ food on app-based delivery services in Hyderabad, India2
The formalisation of academic subjectivity under constant performance assessment2
The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud and the Gods Black People Make by J. Lorand Matory2
Shares, land, and market2
‘I’m not going to feed the bailiffs’: personal bankruptcy and debtor agency in narrative accounts of struggling debtors2
Infrastructural power: discretion and the dynamics of infrastructure in action2
Compounding financial frontiers: capital seeds and seeds for capital2
Performing hard money: monetary policy, metaphor and masculinity in the making of EMU2
Does social media pay for music artists? Quantitative evidence on the co-evolution of social media, streaming and live music2
Postcapitalist composting: reverse logistics and organic waste, designing for diverse livelihoods2
Re use value: economies and philosophies of durability2
Knowing and governing America: the micro-foundations of a calculative infrastructure2
Mediating lifestyle movements: the ethical ecologies of digital veganisms2
Economy shall (no longer) mean economisation2
Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought: Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice2
Valuing value in urban live music ecologies: negotiating the impact of live music in the Netherlands2
Tales of carbon offsets: between experiments and indulgences?2
Banking on gold in Vietnam1
Culture is Bad For You1
Forward guidance and the semiotic turn of the European Central Bank1
Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling1
Response to reviewers: updating Alt-Finance with the literatures on patrimonialism, asset manager capitalism, and blocsAlt-Finance: How the City Bought Democracy, by Mar1
Towards a sociology of stranded assets1
Valuing the Urakami Cathedral after the atomic bombing: fundraising and social rupture in Nagasaki1
From scarce resources to ‘the good economy’: a new ‘version of economization’ replacing Weber’s rational ascetism as the capitalist spirit?1
Poor counts as viable accounts: numbers, forecasting, and routinization in Greece1
Legitimation crisis in contemporary technoscientific capitalism1
Fractured insurance families: securing care and navigating financialized social protections1
Spectrally shape-shifting: biometrics, fintech and the corporate-state in India1
The glass is half empty: the pessimistic mood in (post)COVID-19 pandemic neoliberal academia1
Computing trust: on writing ‘good’ code in computer science education1
Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London , by Caroline Knowles, London, Penguin Books, 2022, 320 pp., £25.00(paperback), ISBN:1
Fintech urbanism in the startup capital of Africa1
Perspectives on cultural economy: personal, institutional, historical1
Whose money? Digital remittances, mobile money and fintech in Ghana1
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 (pape1
Decolonial Imaginings: Intersectional Conversations and Contestations1
Partners in crime: smuggling economies ( Kaçak/Qaçax ) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands1
Ethnographic interventions and thought paradigms at a governmental revenue service1
Storying Indigenous cryptocurrency: reckoning with the ghosts of US settler colonialism in the cultural economy1
Hirschman’sExit, Voice, and Loyaltyand contemporary economic sociology1
Transparent constructions: genre translations in building the New India1
The Exclusionary Politics of Digital Financial Inclusion: Mobile Money, Gendered Walls1
Digitizing death: commodification of joss paper on Chinese online cemetery1
Platforms or flatforms? Insights from an auto-ethnographic account of a virtual cycling app1
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism1
Is it possible to imagine the future without computers?1
Profit compression, time compression, and emotional exhaustion: the platformization of Taobao and its constraining effects on Chinese ‘original design’ women’s e-shops1
Brexit’s hidden network of power: Comment of “Alt-Finance” Brexit’s hidden network of power: Comment of “Alt-Finance” by Marlène Benquet and Théo Bourgeron1
Investing in the community: English local authorities and the ‘patient investment’ of economic regeneration1
Beyond mining: physical commodity traders, market intermediation and the role of (de-)coupling1
Regulating chance: Buddhist temple lotteries, government oversight, and anti-Buddhist discourse in early modern Japan1
Plasticine Music – or the intimate social life of cultural objects1
UK’s Eighteenth Brumaire Alt-Finance: How the City of London Bought Democracy , by Marlène Benquet and Théo Bourgeron, London, Pluto Press, 2022, 176 pp., £59.95(hardbac1
Grounded circularity: the livelihoods of surplus clay1
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World1
From drafts to drafting: genre work, time, and the fragility of managerial expertise in South Korea1
Competitization: the proliferation of competition as a multidimensional process1
Trusting elections: complexities and risks of digital voting in Denmark1
The making of the corporate carbon footprint: the politics behind emission scoping1
‘Take Care of Stray Cats’: biopolitical life ethics and its cosmopolitical countermethod1
New financializations, old displacements: neo-extractivism, ‘whitening’, and consumption in Latin America1
Playing Spotify’s game: artists’ approaches to playlisting in Latin America1
Upgrade Culture and Technological Change: The Business of the Future1
Beyond the Bazaar: Interconnecting Indian Markets1
Enrolling into exclusion: African blockchain and decolonial ambitions in an evolving finance/security infrastructure1
From rag market to creative economy: interview with Angela McRobbie1
Red Gold: The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna0
Statistics, Agriculture, and Democracy in America0
Intimate valuation devices: Doing valuation while doing dating in Tinder texts0
Parental investment and the economization of parenting0
Working on working women: the postfeminist mystification of employable femininity in post-crisis Spain0
The time-making capacity of the technology industry and its consequences for public life0
From reactivity to reputation management: online consumer review systems in the restaurant industry0
Forecasts. A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster0
Materialising reform: how conservation encounters collection practises in zoos0
Kaçak | qaçax | قاچاق : fugitive forms of bureaucracy and economy across Southwest Asia0
Counting chickens before they hatch: transformational accounting in a development cash transfer program0
Viviana Zelizer’s work as inspiration for a public sociology of money0
The leftovers: a rural weaving of field care practices, taste and value within a local food-producing network0
Working for your own folks: the microeconomics of social media0
Thinking big about finance Alt-Finance: How the City of London Bought Democracy , by Marlène Benquet and Théo Bourgeron, London, Pluto Press, 2022, 176 pp., £19.95 (pape0
Thinking with waste to know the economic0
Biopolitical platforms: the perverse virtues of digital labour0
Finance: cultural or political?0
Capturing Finance: Arbitrage and Social Domination0
Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control0
From small to big data: (mis)uses of insurance premium for the government of hazards0
Waste/economy/ecology: redrawing the circular economy0
Come and see Guatemala at Macy’s! Indigenous aesthetics and informal empire on display in the heart of the American home0
From ‘take-ism’ to pursuit of newness and originality: design professionals and models of creativity in contemporary China0
Communities, cohorts and counter-speculators0
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria0
Cultural revolutions: interview with Paul du Gay and Michael Pryke0
Culture or commerce? Craft as an ambiguous construction between culture and economy0
A crypto way out: cryptocurrency, techno-economic imaginaries, and crisis in Russia0
Configuring ethical food consumers: understanding the failures of digital food platforms0
From collateral to money: social meaning, security devices and the law in the depersonalization of monetary relationships0
Digital working lives: workers autonomy and the gig economy0
The moral economy of severe scarcity: how considerations of deservingness shape cloth mask distribution practices in the midst of a global health crisis0
Inventorying data: circumvented investment conditions by Big Tech’s supply chain capitalism0
A feminist approach to fintech: exploring ‘buy now, pay later’ technologies and consumer fintech0
Interventions and dissonance in industrial research: dressing the emperor in new clothes?0
Accumulation mode and political interests of alternative finance and asset management: are they the same actors? Do they want the same thing?0
Renovating Value: HGTV and the Spectacle of Gentrification0
Neoliberal Cities: The Remaking of Postwar Urban America0
How I found my way to Max Weber0
The haptic visuality of financial trading0
Introduction: the tale as a special discourse vehicle0
The waste generated by waste avoidance0
The prices of development. An ethnographic account of a randomized pricing experiment in East Africa0
Screening for eligibility: access and resistance in Istanbul’s food banks0
Commodity and the commons: accumulations of capital on the space frontier0
When tales of money fail: the importance of price, trust, and sociality for cryptocurrency users0
Living together and taking care of each other: narrating the asset-manager society0
Murky moralities: performing markets in a charitable food aid organization0
The common places of alternative finance: assemblages, stoppages, and the political mobilisation of space0
Debt trails: following relations of debt across borrowers, organizations, and states0
What was the project? Thoughts on genre and the project form0
Managing oil theft: socio-material relations, debt, and disruption in Southeastern Turkey0
A financial frontier for Catalonia: nationalism in times of austerity0
Economic under-determination: industrial competitiveness and free allowances in the European carbon market0
Toward cultural and creative industry: Chinese eSports through a business ecosystem lens0
Homeownership in Hong Kong: House Buying as Hope Mechanism0
Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: How a Continent is Escaping Silicon Valley’s Long Shadow0
On debt obligations as market relations: the entanglement of debtors in market organization0
Individual pension decision-making in a financialised landscape: a typology of everyday approaches0
KnowingThe Unknowers0
Digitizing other markets: lessons from the Bush Internet of Island Melanesia0
The organizational character of statistical expertise0
High net-worth attachments: emotional labour, relational work, and financial subjectivities in private wealth management0
Reading the signs: on inferential semiotics and market imagination0
My attachment to Michel Callon’s markets0
Characterising assurance: scepticism and mistrust in cyber security0
‘To the moon!’: Elon Musk, Dogecoin, and the political economy of charismatic leadership0
Knowing America0
Open for business: the discursive diffusion of regulatory sandboxes for fintech innovation0
Phaticity as a technical mystique: the genred, multi-sited mediation of the innovation architect’s expertise0
Afterword: the evolution and (mis)use of (mis)trust0
The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube0
Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan0
The politics of climate risk: How the climate issue is turned into a risk issue through the little tools and operations of finance0
Questioning the disposability of plastic packaging: Consumer challenges to fresh food packaging market devices and their afterlives0
Pitching agri-food tech: performativity and non-disruptive disruption in Silicon Valley0
Business of involution: self-study rooms and work culture in China0
Statement of Retraction: Interrogating the traditional ethics and values of religious fundraising strategies of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo (Southwest Nigeria)0
Relational finance: Ottoman debt, financialization, and the problem of the semi-civilized0
Peiwan: the cruel optimism of China’s online ‘play companions’0
The interpretive and relational work of financial innovation: a resemblance of assurance in Islamic finance0
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform0
Towards interactive perspectives on information gathering: what are resolvable differences?0
Author response: on the conditions of possibility of asset-manager society0
Smartphones for drugs: exchange relations in a South African gang since apartheid0
How alternative asset management is shaping our world: from the description of asset-manager society to the study of asset-manager politics0
Pan African capital? Banks, currencies, and imperial power0
Platform sabotage0
Histories of religious fundraising: religion, economy, and value in global perspective: introduction0
Financial capital and ghosts of empire: editorial0
Climate Lyricism0
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World0
The significance of boring FinTech: technology imaginaries and value vernaculars in established banks0
Monastic Buddhist asset capitalization in ancient Sri Lanka0
Afterword of ‘Financial frontiers': towards conceptualizing finance that engages both power and contingency0
The future of consistency0
A Yorkstone Godzilla. A materiality of mutuality at the Halifax Building Society, 1968–19740
Poverty among riches: understanding the contracted economy for recorded music and its impact on market actors0
Deleuze in the wild: making philosophy matter for fintech0
Karl Polanyi’s theory of fictitious commodification as a cultural political economy of institutionalization0
‘A video or a flat fee?’ on the performances of concert fees0
More of the same? How digital food platforms reinforce prevailing eating interests and practices0
The financialization of anti-capitalism? The case of the ‘Financial Independence Retire Early’ community0
Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life0
Fashioning the nation in the age of populism0
How app companies use GitHub: on modes of valuation in the digital attention economy0
The engineering of stock market indices: winners and losers0
A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism0
Domestic values: gendered labor and the uncanniness of critique in marketing life insurance for women0
‘Driving is terrifying’: auto-mobility horizons, projections and networks in Vietnam and ASEAN0
The will to ignorance0
The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures0
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