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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing56
Biowaste as fluid matter: valuing biogas and biofertilisers as assets in the Finnish biogas sector54
Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through37
Mediating and mapping climate risk: micro-insurance and earth observation34
A poststructuralist who still believes in structures: interview with John Allen25
Reflections on representing Black Britain23
Responsibilization of care: tensions over health, insurance and the family in Brazil22
Articulating value(s): problematizing financial moralities in impact investments20
Outlining startup culture as a global form17
Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour15
Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms15
Intermediaries, mediators and digital advertising’s tensions14
Pardoning Kaçak : politics of building amnesties and the making of the (im)moral urban economy in Istanbul13
COVID relief as ‘dangerous money’ for Black business owners12
Rooted Globalism: Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries11
Trusting elections: complexities and risks of digital voting in Denmark10
(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry10
Undoing cultural studies: cultural economy at the Open University (1979–1997)10
The frontier in heterogeneous time: finance, temporality, and an economic zone on hold10
Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling9
Partners in crime: smuggling economies ( Kaçak/Qaçax ) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands9
Culture or commerce? Craft as an ambiguous construction between culture and economy9
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 China8
Fintech urbanism in the startup capital of Africa8
Fractured insurance families: securing care and navigating financialized social protections8
Cryptofinancial imaginaries: how neoliberal theories are materialized in the technical principles of cryptocurrencies8
Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan7
Bridging governmentality and economization: temporality as a financialization device7
Body, beauty, enrichment: Theorizing the rise of the cosmetic industry through Boltanski and Esquerre's framework of enrichment7
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World7
Socio-technical arrangements, commercial banks’ power, and central banks: the rebuilding of the payment card system in Israel7
Karl Polanyi’s theory of fictitious commodification as a cultural political economy of institutionalization7
Capturing Finance: Arbitrage and Social Domination7
Green bond market practices: exploring the moral ‘balance’ of environmental and financial values7
Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa6
Counting chickens before they hatch: transformational accounting in a development cash transfer program6
‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneur6
The haptic visuality of financial trading6
The prices of development. An ethnographic account of a randomized pricing experiment in East Africa6
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform6
The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures6
Waste/economy/ecology: redrawing the circular economy6
Digital pirates: policing intellectual property in Brazil5
Finding legal meaning in economic history, by way of sociology: endings and beginnings5
Contract as frontier device, or, the political publics of water infrastructures5
Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought: Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice5
‘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
Calculating care: the valuation of medical routes while health seeking in Vietnam5
Economic sociology and the far-right5
What was the project? Thoughts on genre and the project form5
Repoliticising the future of work: automation and the end of techno-optimism5
Engendering assemblages: the constitution of digital health data as an epistemic consumption object5
Upgrade Culture and Technological Change: The Business of the Future5
Platforming pickiness: the digitally mediated enactment of childhood avoidant eating4
Poor counts as viable accounts: numbers, forecasting, and routinization in Greece4
Competitization: the proliferation of competition as a multidimensional process4
‘How much is too much?’: dynamically priced tickets and algorithm agency on the Ticketmaster platform4
The significance of boring FinTech: technology imaginaries and value vernaculars in established banks4
From drafts to drafting: genre work, time, and the fragility of managerial expertise in South Korea4
Performing hard money: monetary policy, metaphor and masculinity in the making of EMU4
Consumption work in household circular economy activities: findings from a cultural probe experiment4
Crowdfunding care in Kenya4
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
Does social media pay for music artists? Quantitative evidence on the co-evolution of social media, streaming and live music4
Valuing value in urban live music ecologies: negotiating the impact of live music in the Netherlands4
Reading Callon at Zuccotti Park4
Finance and care4
Reading the signs: on inferential semiotics and market imagination3
Cultural work and contributive justice3
Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present3
Business of involution: self-study rooms and work culture in China3
How to be tidal: designing with waste streams as matter in flow and matter of value3
The politics of climate risk: How the climate issue is turned into a risk issue through the little tools and operations of finance3
Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis3
‘Orunmila needs a new house’: religious fundraising and the revitalisation of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo in southwest Nigeria3
Accumulation mode and political interests of alternative finance and asset management: are they the same actors? Do they want the same thing?3
Questioning the disposability of plastic packaging: Consumer challenges to fresh food packaging market devices and their afterlives3
Fintech and tax in Sub-Saharan Africa: taxation versus financial inclusion3
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
New genres and obsolete expertise in the new textiles economy3
The time-making capacity of the technology industry and its consequences for public life3
Introduction: genre work and the new economy3
‘Guaranteed contraband’: a cultural biography of kaçak tea in Gaziantep’s Iranian bazaar3
Until every pet has a home: fuzzy finances in American animal rescue economies3
Interventions and dissonance in industrial research: dressing the emperor in new clothes?3
The formalisation of academic subjectivity under constant performance assessment2
Leaning in or falling over? Epistemological liminality and the knowledges that make a market2
Abetting the market: on property, propriety and actually existing capitalisms2
From fashion blogger to media professional: networked blogfriends, proximity privilege and making a media career from the North American fashion blogipelago2
From rag market to creative economy: interview with Angela McRobbie2
Sensuous Abstraction: hip-hop, money and the popular2
From collateral to money: social meaning, security devices and the law in the depersonalization of monetary relationships2
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
‘I’m not going to feed the bailiffs’: personal bankruptcy and debtor agency in narrative accounts of struggling debtors2
Platforms or flatforms? Insights from an auto-ethnographic account of a virtual cycling app2
Genres are the drive belts of the job market2
Ethnographic interventions and thought paradigms at a governmental revenue service2
Beyond the Bazaar: Interconnecting Indian Markets2
My attachment to Michel Callon’s markets2
Regulating chance: Buddhist temple lotteries, government oversight, and anti-Buddhist discourse in early modern Japan2
Plasticine Music – or the intimate social life of cultural objects2
Houdini and the magic of logistics2
Rendering transparent and opaque: the materiality of green, social and sustainability bonds2
“Every dollar has its own problem”: discrepant dollars and the social topography of fungibility in multi-currency era Zimbabwe (2009–2019)2
Negotiating platformisation: MusicTech, intellectual property rights and third wave platform reintermediation in the music industry2
FinTech in Africa: an editorial introduction2
Financial frontiers: borders, conversions, enclosures2
From scarce resources to ‘the good economy’: a new ‘version of economization’ replacing Weber’s rational ascetism as the capitalist spirit?2
Response to reviewers: updating Alt-Finance with the literatures on patrimonialism, asset manager capitalism, and blocs2
Whose money? Digital remittances, mobile money and fintech in Ghana2
Homeownership in Hong Kong: House Buying as Hope Mechanism1
Windows into the ethically made: affect, value, and the ‘pricing paradox’ in the maker movement1
Tales of light and darkness: a response to comments on The Ordinal Society1
Monetized socialization on the front end: exchanging money as social activities through Red Packet and Transfer on WeChat1
‘Driving is terrifying’: auto-mobility horizons, projections and networks in Vietnam and ASEAN1
Enrolling into exclusion: African blockchain and decolonial ambitions in an evolving finance/security infrastructure1
Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London , by Caroline Knowles, London, Penguin Books, 2022, 320 pp., £25.00(paperback), ISBN:1
Working on working women: the postfeminist mystification of employable femininity in post-crisis Spain1
Domestic values: gendered labor and the uncanniness of critique in marketing life insurance for women1
Between data, faith and activism: ambivalent professional performances generating social finance1
Computing trust: on writing ‘good’ code in computer science education1
Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium1
Is it possible to imagine the future without computers?1
For the refusal of unpayable debts: an artists’ roundtable with Dele Adeyemo, Ahmed Isamaldin, Bahar Noorizadeh, and Gary Zhexi Zhang1
A Yorkstone Godzilla. A materiality of mutuality at the Halifax Building Society, 1968–19741
Distributed accountability: picking a carbon price for cost–benefit analysis1
The order of things beyond Foucault and our categories to make sense of it1
Thinking with waste to know the economic1
Space and Organizing on Spatial Agencing1
Kaçak electricity: negotiating rights and privileges in the Ottoman Empire during the imperialist era1
Storying Indigenous cryptocurrency: reckoning with the ghosts of US settler colonialism in the cultural economy1
Forecasts. A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster1
‘Take Care of Stray Cats’: biopolitical life ethics and its cosmopolitical countermethod1
Finding the sweet spot: critiquing a cultural ecosystems approach to civic cultural strategy making1
Cultural revolutions: interview with Paul du Gay and Michael Pryke1
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
The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube1
Platformizing Ubuntu? FinTech, Inclusion, and Mutual Help in Africa1
Provocation Soil Trust: designing economies inside an interspecies world of feeders1
Digital food rating, caring dietary styles, and identity: a study of plant-based restaurant reviews1
Trusts at the financial frontier: the flickering forms of property, water, and governance1
Parental investment and the economization of parenting1
Configuring ethical food consumers: understanding the failures of digital food platforms1
Lumpen utopia: money, livestreaming, and labor in emerging media worlds1
Thinking infrastructures and the promise of infrastructure: towards advancing the concept of infrastructure1
Pitching agri-food tech: performativity and non-disruptive disruption in Silicon Valley1
Open for business: the discursive diffusion of regulatory sandboxes for fintech innovation1
Decolonial Imaginings: Intersectional Conversations and Contestations1
Author response: on the conditions of possibility of asset-manager society1
How the living shapes markets: accounting for the action of biological entities in market agencing1
Global warming as investment climate: green tech and the translation of needs1
The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media1
‘To the moon!’: Elon Musk, Dogecoin, and the political economy of charismatic leadership1
Non-fungible tokens of art, fungible tokens for gambling: the gallery and casino chronotope in the Chinese NFT scene, 2022–20231
The moral economies of natural disasters insurance: solidarity or individual responsibility?1
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
Commodity and the commons: accumulations of capital on the space frontier1
What is a financial frontier?1
Models in the circular economy: envisioning waste’s potential1
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