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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing49
Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms47
Biowaste as fluid matter: valuing biogas and biofertilisers as assets in the Finnish biogas sector32
Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through28
Mediating and mapping climate risk: micro-insurance and earth observation23
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour22
Outlining startup culture as a global form19
A poststructuralist who still believes in structures: interview with John Allen18
Reflections on representing Black Britain17
Intermediaries, mediators and digital advertising’s tensions14
Pardoning Kaçak : politics of building amnesties and the making of the (im)moral urban economy in Istanbul13
Responsibilization of care: tensions over health, insurance and the family in Brazil13
COVID relief as ‘dangerous money’ for Black business owners13
Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries12
The frontier in heterogeneous time: finance, temporality, and an economic zone on hold10
Trusting elections: complexities and risks of digital voting in Denmark10
The taste of homemade: trusting ‘healthy’ food on app-based delivery services in Hyderabad, India9
From ‘take-ism’ to pursuit of newness and originality: design professionals and models of creativity in contemporary China9
Undoing cultural studies: cultural economy at the Open University (1979–1997)9
Fintech urbanism in the startup capital of Africa9
Partners in crime: smuggling economies ( Kaçak/Qaçax ) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands9
Fractured insurance families: securing care and navigating financialized social protections8
Cryptofinancial imaginaries: how neoliberal theories are materialized in the technical principles of cryptocurrencies8
Culture or commerce? Craft as an ambiguous construction between culture and economy8
Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling8
Green bond market practices: exploring the moral ‘balance’ of environmental and financial values7
Karl Polanyi’s theory of fictitious commodification as a cultural political economy of institutionalization7
Introduction: the tale as a special discourse vehicle7
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World7
Bridging governmentality and economization: temporality as a financialization device7
Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan7
Capturing Finance: Arbitrage and Social Domination6
The prices of development. An ethnographic account of a randomized pricing experiment in East Africa6
The haptic visuality of financial trading6
Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa6
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
Body, beauty, enrichment: Theorizing the rise of the cosmetic industry through Boltanski and Esquerre's framework of enrichment6
Counting chickens before they hatch: transformational accounting in a development cash transfer program6
‘Investments in the Kingdom of Christ’: home missionary fundraising and investor capitalism in the late-nineteenth-century USA5
Entertaining the stock market and speculative communities: South Korea's television-financial complex and Kakao's March of the Ants5
Upgrade Culture and Technological Change: The Business of the Future5
Waste/economy/ecology: redrawing the circular economy5
Digital pirates: policing intellectual property in Brazil5
Repoliticising the future of work: automation and the end of techno-optimism5
Calculating care: the valuation of medical routes while health seeking in Vietnam5
Engendering assemblages: the constitution of digital health data as an epistemic consumption object5
What was the project? Thoughts on genre and the project form5
Contract as frontier device, or, the political publics of water infrastructures5
Finding legal meaning in economic history, by way of sociology: endings and beginnings5
Economic sociology and the far-right5
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
Valuing value in urban live music ecologies: negotiating the impact of live music in the Netherlands4
From drafts to drafting: genre work, time, and the fragility of managerial expertise in South Korea4
Competitization: the proliferation of competition as a multidimensional process4
Crowdfunding care in Kenya4
Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought: Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice4
Platforming pickiness: the digitally mediated enactment of childhood avoidant eating4
Shouldn’t we all be doing cultural economy?4
Business of involution: self-study rooms and work culture in China4
Poor counts as viable accounts: numbers, forecasting, and routinization in Greece4
Performing hard money: monetary policy, metaphor and masculinity in the making of EMU4
Does social media pay for music artists? Quantitative evidence on the co-evolution of social media, streaming and live music4
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
Fintech and tax in Sub-Saharan Africa: taxation versus financial inclusion4
Accumulation mode and political interests of alternative finance and asset management: are they the same actors? Do they want the same thing?3
The politics of climate risk: How the climate issue is turned into a risk issue through the little tools and operations of finance3
Reading the signs: on inferential semiotics and market imagination3
New genres and obsolete expertise in the new textiles economy3
Until every pet has a home: fuzzy finances in American animal rescue economies3
Finance and care3
How to be tidal: designing with waste streams as matter in flow and matter of value3
Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present3
Pan African capital? Banks, currencies, and imperial power3
Statement of Retraction: Interrogating the traditional ethics and values of religious fundraising strategies of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo (Southwest Nigeria)3
Interventions and dissonance in industrial research: dressing the emperor in new clothes?3
Cultural work and contributive justice3
Reading Callon at Zuccotti Park3
The time-making capacity of the technology industry and its consequences for public life3
Introduction: genre work and the new economy3
The significance of boring FinTech: technology imaginaries and value vernaculars in established banks3
‘Guaranteed contraband’: a cultural biography of kaçak tea in Gaziantep’s Iranian bazaar3
Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis3
FinTech in Africa: an editorial introduction3
Consumption work in household circular economy activities: findings from a cultural probe experiment3
‘How much is too much?’: dynamically priced tickets and algorithm agency on the Ticketmaster platform3
Questioning the disposability of plastic packaging: Consumer challenges to fresh food packaging market devices and their afterlives3
Ethnographic interventions and thought paradigms at a governmental revenue service2
My attachment to Michel Callon’s markets2
Response to reviewers: updating Alt-Finance with the literatures on patrimonialism, asset manager capitalism, and blocs2
Sensuous Abstraction: hip-hop, money and the popular2
From rag market to creative economy: interview with Angela McRobbie2
‘I’m not going to feed the bailiffs’: personal bankruptcy and debtor agency in narrative accounts of struggling debtors2
Negotiating platformisation: MusicTech, intellectual property rights and third wave platform reintermediation in the music industry2
Genres are the drive belts of the job market2
“Every dollar has its own problem”: discrepant dollars and the social topography of fungibility in multi-currency era Zimbabwe (2009–2019)2
From fashion blogger to media professional: networked blogfriends, proximity privilege and making a media career from the North American fashion blogipelago2
Regulating chance: Buddhist temple lotteries, government oversight, and anti-Buddhist discourse in early modern Japan2
What is a financial frontier?2
Whose money? Digital remittances, mobile money and fintech in Ghana2
Rendering transparent and opaque: the materiality of green, social and sustainability bonds2
‘Orunmila needs a new house’: religious fundraising and the revitalisation of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo in southwest Nigeria2
Leaning in or falling over? Epistemological liminality and the knowledges that make a market2
Beyond the Bazaar: Interconnecting Indian Markets2
From scarce resources to ‘the good economy’: a new ‘version of economization’ replacing Weber’s rational ascetism as the capitalist spirit?2
From collateral to money: social meaning, security devices and the law in the depersonalization of monetary relationships2
Plasticine Music – or the intimate social life of cultural objects2
Houdini and the magic of logistics2
The formalisation of academic subjectivity under constant performance assessment2
Platforms or flatforms? Insights from an auto-ethnographic account of a virtual cycling app2
Abetting the market: on property, propriety and actually existing capitalisms2
Kaçak electricity: negotiating rights and privileges in the Ottoman Empire during the imperialist era1
‘Take Care of Stray Cats’: biopolitical life ethics and its cosmopolitical countermethod1
Domestic values: gendered labor and the uncanniness of critique in marketing life insurance for women1
‘Driving is terrifying’: auto-mobility horizons, projections and networks in Vietnam and ASEAN1
Configuring ethical food consumers: understanding the failures of digital food platforms1
Non-fungible tokens of art, fungible tokens for gambling: the gallery and casino chronotope in the Chinese NFT scene, 2022–20231
The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube1
The denial of moral complexity: accusations against migrant waste pickers by Turkish scrap dealers in Istanbul1
Murky moralities: performing markets in a charitable food aid organization1
Shares, land, and market1
Commodity and the commons: accumulations of capital on the space frontier1
Lumpen utopia: money, livestreaming, and labor in emerging media worlds1
Parental investment and the economization of parenting1
Tales of light and darkness: a response to comments on The Ordinal Society1
Thinking with waste to know the economic1
Global warming as investment climate: green tech and the translation of needs1
Platformizing Ubuntu? FinTech, Inclusion, and Mutual Help in Africa1
Thinking infrastructures and the promise of infrastructure: towards advancing the concept of infrastructure1
Storying Indigenous cryptocurrency: reckoning with the ghosts of US settler colonialism in the cultural economy1
Windows into the ethically made: affect, value, and the ‘pricing paradox’ in the maker movement1
Decolonial Imaginings: Intersectional Conversations and Contestations1
Forecasts. A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster1
Working on working women: the postfeminist mystification of employable femininity in post-crisis Spain1
Models in the circular economy: envisioning waste’s potential1
Cultural revolutions: interview with Paul du Gay and Michael Pryke1
The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media1
Digital food rating, caring dietary styles, and identity: a study of plant-based restaurant reviews1
How the living shapes markets: accounting for the action of biological entities in market agencing1
A Yorkstone Godzilla. A materiality of mutuality at the Halifax Building Society, 1968–19741
Distributed accountability: picking a carbon price for cost–benefit analysis1
Homeownership in Hong Kong: House Buying as Hope Mechanism1
Finding the sweet spot: critiquing a cultural ecosystems approach to civic cultural strategy making1
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 ocean1
For the refusal of unpayable debts: an artists’ roundtable with Dele Adeyemo, Ahmed Isamaldin, Bahar Noorizadeh, and Gary Zhexi Zhang1
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
Monetized socialization on the front end: exchanging money as social activities through Red Packet and Transfer on WeChat1
Enrolling into exclusion: African blockchain and decolonial ambitions in an evolving finance/security infrastructure1
Pitching agri-food tech: performativity and non-disruptive disruption in Silicon Valley1
‘To the moon!’: Elon Musk, Dogecoin, and the political economy of charismatic leadership1
Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London , by Caroline Knowles, London, Penguin Books, 2022, 320 pp., £25.00(paperback), ISBN:1
Knowing America1
Open for business: the discursive diffusion of regulatory sandboxes for fintech innovation1
Author response: on the conditions of possibility of asset-manager society1
Computing trust: on writing ‘good’ code in computer science education1
Provocation Soil Trust: designing economies inside an interspecies world of feeders1
Is it possible to imagine the future without computers?1
The moral economies of natural disasters insurance: solidarity or individual responsibility?1
Trusts at the financial frontier: the flickering forms of property, water, and governance1
The organizational character of statistical expertise1
Financial frontiers: borders, conversions, enclosures1
Space and Organizing on Spatial Agencing1
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