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March 2025, Volume 18, Issue 2
- 175-193 Platforms or flatforms? Insights from an auto-ethnographic account of a virtual cycling app
by Franck Cochoy - 194-211 Profit compression, time compression, and emotional exhaustion: the platformization of Taobao and its constraining effects on Chinese ‘original design’ women’s e-shops
by Deya Xu & Tingting Liu - 212-229 Market devices and infrastructures: how they differ and why it matters
by David Pinzur & Tom Duterme - 230-246 Personal devices: investing apps and the selectively self-directed digital-financial subject
by Emily Chua - 247-265 A crypto way out: cryptocurrency, techno-economic imaginaries, and crisis in Russia
by Kobe De Keere & Maksim Novokreshchenov - 266-283 Inventorying data: circumvented investment conditions by Big Tech’s supply chain capitalism
by Caroline Anna Salling & Brit Ross Winthereik - 284-303 Monetized socialization on the front end: exchanging money as social activities through Red Packet and Transfer on WeChat
by Jiaxun Li - 304-331 Stacked economization: a research program for the study of platforms
by Koray Caliskan & Donald MacKenzie & Michel Callon - 332-334 The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube
by Robert Cluley - 334-337 Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
by Yameena Zaidi
January 2025, Volume 18, Issue 1
- 1-17 A feminist approach to fintech: exploring ‘buy now, pay later’ technologies and consumer fintech
by Jessa Loomis & Daniel Cockayne - 18-34 ‘I’m not going to feed the bailiffs’: personal bankruptcy and debtor agency in narrative accounts of struggling debtors
by Anja Decker & Tomáš Hoření Samec - 35-51 Bridging governmentality and economization: temporality as a financialization device
by Samantha S. Plummer - 52-67 Buy Now, Pay Later technologies and the gamification of debt in the financial lives of young people
by Steven Threadgold & Barrie Shannon & Adriana Haro & Julia Cook & Kate Davies & Julia Coffey & David Farrugia & Benjamin Matthews & Joshua Healy & Roger Burrows - 68-91 Fashioning the nation in the age of populism
by Virág Molnár - 92-108 Culture or commerce? Craft as an ambiguous construction between culture and economy
by Ola Gunhildrud Berta - 109-128 The leftovers: a rural weaving of field care practices, taste and value within a local food-producing network
by Emmy Laura Perez Fjalland & Thomas Budde Christensen - 129-146 From ‘take-ism’ to pursuit of newness and originality: design professionals and models of creativity in contemporary China
by Grace Tang - 147-153 My attachment to Michel Callon’s markets
by Liz McFall - 154-167 Review Symposium: Michel Callon’s Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation. Zone Books
by Michel Callon & Paul Langley & Bill Maurer & Timothy Mitchell & Alvin Roth & Koray Caliskan - 168-174 Reading Callon at Zuccotti Park
by Elif Buse Doyuran & Simiran Lalvani & Sevde Nur Unal
November 2024, Volume 17, Issue 6
- 725-736 Digital (mis)trust: ethnographic encounters with computational forms
by James Maguire & Kristoffer Albris - 737-756 Computing trust: on writing ‘good’ code in computer science education
by Samantha Breslin - 757-774 Trusting elections: complexities and risks of digital voting in Denmark
by Christopher Gad - 775-792 The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures
by Ranjit Singh - 793-808 Characterising assurance: scepticism and mistrust in cyber security
by Matt Spencer - 809-813 Afterword: the evolution and (mis)use of (mis)trust
by Matthew Carey - 814-816 Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis
by Andreas Tranvik - 817-819 Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought: Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice
by Nicholas Jon Crane - 820-822 Upgrade Culture and Technological Change: The Business of the Future
by Kathleen Oswald - 823-826 Is it possible to imagine the future without computers?
by Adam Richard Rottinghaus
September 2024, Volume 17, Issue 5
- 513-531 Intermediaries, mediators and digital advertising’s tensions
by Addie McGowan & Donald MacKenzie & Koray Caliskan - 532-547 From small to big data: (mis)uses of insurance premium for the government of hazards
by Laurence Barry - 548-566 Parental investment and the economization of parenting
by Michelle Spiegel & Yana Kuchirko & Nina Bandelj - 567-587 The haptic visuality of financial trading
by Deniz Coral - 588-604 Investing in the community: English local authorities and the ‘patient investment’ of economic regeneration
by Niamh Mulcahy - 605-625 Intimate valuation devices: Doing valuation while doing dating in Tinder texts
by Thorsten Peetz - 626-640 How to be not economic: abundance and the history of strolling
by Till Düppe - 641-662 Undoing cultural studies: cultural economy at the Open University (1979–1997)
by Toby Bennett - 663-671 A poststructuralist who still believes in structures: interview with John Allen
by John Allen & Toby Bennett - 672-683 Cultural revolutions: interview with Paul du Gay and Michael Pryke
by Paul du Gay & Michael Pryke & Toby Bennett - 684-693 Strategic ambiguity: a roundtable on cultural economy and consumer culture
by Don Slater & Sean Nixon & Liz McFall - 694-699 Perspectives on cultural economy: personal, institutional, historical
by Keith Negus - 700-706 From rag market to creative economy: interview with Angela McRobbie
by Angela McRobbie & Toby Bennett - 707-715 Reflections on representing Black Britain
by Sarita Malik - 716-719 Finance: cultural or political?
by Fabian Muniesa - 720-724 Shouldn’t we all be doing cultural economy?
by Philip Roscoe
July 2024, Volume 17, Issue 4
- 419-433 Financial capital and ghosts of empire: editorial
by Clea Bourne & Max Haiven & Johnna Montgomerie & Paul Gilbert - 434-451 Storying Indigenous cryptocurrency: reckoning with the ghosts of US settler colonialism in the cultural economy
by Ashley Cordes - 452-469 New financializations, old displacements: neo-extractivism, ‘whitening’, and consumption in Latin America
by Emmanuel Guerisoli & Santiago Mandirola - 470-488 Spectrally shape-shifting: biometrics, fintech and the corporate-state in India
by Kavita Dattani - 489-503 For the refusal of unpayable debts: an artists’ roundtable with Dele Adeyemo, Ahmed Isamaldin, Bahar Noorizadeh, and Gary Zhexi Zhang
by Max Haiven - 504-507 Climate Lyricism
by Katherine Duffy - 507-509 Forecasts. A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster
by Théo Régniez - 510-512 Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform
by Sunniva Sandbukt
May 2024, Volume 17, Issue 3
- 279-296 Green bond market practices: exploring the moral ‘balance’ of environmental and financial values
by Sarah Bracking - 297-313 ‘To the moon!’: Elon Musk, Dogecoin, and the political economy of charismatic leadership
by Dominik Zelinsky - 314-330 Domestic values: gendered labor and the uncanniness of critique in marketing life insurance for women
by Sohini Kar - 331-344 On debt obligations as market relations: the entanglement of debtors in market organization
by Tamar Nir - 345-359 Poverty among riches: understanding the contracted economy for recorded music and its impact on market actors
by Elizabeth Carter - 360-378 Open for business: the discursive diffusion of regulatory sandboxes for fintech innovation
by Sine Nørholm Just & Morten Fischer Sivertsen & Sian Lewin - 379-395 Questioning the disposability of plastic packaging: Consumer challenges to fresh food packaging market devices and their afterlives
by Jack Pickering - 396-412 Business of involution: self-study rooms and work culture in China
by Changwen Chen & Renyi Hong - 413-416 Space and Organizing on Spatial Agencing
by Sevde Nur Unal - 416-417 Consumer Activism: Promotional Culture and Resistance
by Adam Richard Rottinghaus
March 2024, Volume 17, Issue 2
- 147-153 Kaçak | qaçax | قاچاق : fugitive forms of bureaucracy and economy across Southwest Asia
by Emrah Yıldız - 154-164 Kaçak as a mode of feeling and being: sovereignty, fantasy, and the undercommons
by Nazan Ustundag - 165-177 Negotiating smuggling: tribes, debt, and the informal economy in Turkish Kurdistan
by Haydar Darici - 178-196 ‘Guaranteed contraband’: a cultural biography of kaçak tea in Gaziantep’s Iranian bazaar
by Emrah Yıldız - 197-211 Kaçak electricity: negotiating rights and privileges in the Ottoman Empire during the imperialist era
by Cihan Tekay Liu - 212-233 Pardoning Kaçak: politics of building amnesties and the making of the (im)moral urban economy in Istanbul
by Sinan Erensu - 234-248 Managing oil theft: socio-material relations, debt, and disruption in Southeastern Turkey
by Zeynep Oguz - 249-263 Partners in crime: smuggling economies (Kaçak/Qaçax) and human-animal collaborations in Turkey’s Kurdish borderlands
by Fırat Bozçalı - 264-267 Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World
by Melinda Cooper - 267-270 Living together and taking care of each other: narrating the asset-manager society
by Natascha van der Zwan - 270-273 How alternative asset management is shaping our world: from the description of asset-manager society to the study of asset-manager politics
by Marlène Benquet - 273-275 Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World
by Paul Langley - 275-278 Author response: on the conditions of possibility of asset-manager society
by Brett Christophers
January 2024, Volume 17, Issue 1
- 1-19 Nudge goes to Silicon Valley: designing for the disengaged and the irrational
by Elif Buse Doyuran - 20-38 Stack bricolage and infrastructural impermanence in financial machine-learning modelling
by Kristian Bondo Hansen & Nanna Thylstrup - 39-54 The moral economies of natural disasters insurance: solidarity or individual responsibility?
by Laurence Barry - 55-72 The time-making capacity of the technology industry and its consequences for public life
by Roei Davidson & Noa Rein & Eran Tamir - 73-91 Transmuting solidarity: hybrid-economic practices in the social economy in Greece
by Dimitris Soudias - 92-107 The prices of development. An ethnographic account of a randomized pricing experiment in East Africa
by Nassima Abdelghafour - 108-120 Performativity and affective atmospheres in digitally mediated care labour
by Joshua Kalemba & Robyn Mayes & Paula McDonald & Penny Williams - 121-137 Competitization: the proliferation of competition as a multidimensional process
by Georg Wolfmayr - 138-140 Chasing Innovation
by Sila Eser - 141-146 Towards a sociology of stranded assets
by Valentina Ausserladscheider
November 2023, Volume 16, Issue 6
- 793-811 The interpretive and relational work of financial innovation: a resemblance of assurance in Islamic finance
by Aaron Z. Pitluck - 812-828 Outlining startup culture as a global form
by Henri Koskinen - 829-851 “Every dollar has its own problem”: discrepant dollars and the social topography of fungibility in multi-currency era Zimbabwe (2009–2019)
by Chris Vasantkumar - 852-866 Prototyping to turn policy into design. (Co)modification of a serious game in the French education system
by Victor Potier - 867-885 ‘A video or a flat fee?’ on the performances of concert fees
by Loïc Riom - 886-907 Environmentalism polluted: consumerism and complicity in Studio Ghibli’s media mix
by Maxim Tvorun-Dunn & Nathalie Pascaru - 908-920 Plasticine Music – or the intimate social life of cultural objects
by Víctor Ávila Torres - 921-923 Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America
by Sydney Halleman - 923-925 Digital working lives: workers autonomy and the gig economy
by Eugenia Stamboliev
September 2023, Volume 16, Issue 5
- 655-664 Histories of religious fundraising: religion, economy, and value in global perspective: introduction
by Jane Caple & Sarah Roddy - 665-681 ‘Investments in the Kingdom of Christ’: home missionary fundraising and investor capitalism in the late-nineteenth-century USA
by Andrew Short - 682-697 Monastic Buddhist asset capitalization in ancient Sri Lanka
by Matthew D. Milligan - 698-715 The stakes of religious fundraising: economic transition and religious resurgence in Irish Catholicism and Tibetan Buddhism
by Jane Caple & Sarah Roddy - 716-732 Regulating chance: Buddhist temple lotteries, government oversight, and anti-Buddhist discourse in early modern Japan
by Matthew Mitchell - 733-750 ‘Orunmila needs a new house’: religious fundraising and the revitalisation of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo in southwest Nigeria
by K. Charles Omotayo - 751-767 Valuing the Urakami Cathedral after the atomic bombing: fundraising and social rupture in Nagasaki
by Gwyn McClelland - 768-772 Brexit’s hidden network of power: Comment of “Alt-Finance”
by Cecilia Rikap - 772-775 UK’s Eighteenth Brumaire
by Olivier Godechot - 776-778 Thinking big about finance
by Felix Bühlmann - 778-786 Accumulation mode and political interests of alternative finance and asset management: are they the same actors? Do they want the same thing?
by Marlène Benquet - 786-791 Response to reviewers: updating Alt-Finance with the literatures on patrimonialism, asset manager capitalism, and blocs
by Théo Bourgeron
July 2023, Volume 16, Issue 4
- 477-494 COVID relief as ‘dangerous money’ for Black business owners
by Lana Swartz & Vivian Afi Abui Dzokoto - 495-512 Poor counts as viable accounts: numbers, forecasting, and routinization in Greece
by Soo-Young Kim - 513-528 Charitable assets: social outcomes, financial values, and the new, nonprofit funding regime
by James W. Williams - 529-543 How the living shapes markets: accounting for the action of biological entities in market agencing
by Quentin Chance & Frédéric Goulet & Ronan Le Velly - 544-558 The politics of mediation: subjectivity, value and power in the digital grid of Aadhaar
by Tsvetelina Hristova - 559-575 Digitizing other markets: lessons from the Bush Internet of Island Melanesia
by Geoffrey Hobbis & Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis - 576-578 Waste/economy/ecology: redrawing the circular economy
by Gay Hawkins & Stephen Healy - 579-586 Reuse value: economies and philosophies of durability
by Gay Hawkins - 587-593 Thinking with waste to know the economic
by Josh Lepawsky - 594-603 Provocation Soil Trust: designing economies inside an interspecies world of feeders
by Markus Wernli & Kam-Fai Chan - 604-614 How to be tidal: designing with waste streams as matter in flow and matter of value
by Kate Scardifield & Nahum McLean - 615-621 Inputs, outputs and churn: why some products and materials don’t move through
by Ruth Lane - 622-630 Postcapitalist composting: reverse logistics and organic waste, designing for diverse livelihoods
by Stephen Healy & Abby Mellick Lopes - 631-639 Grounded circularity: the livelihoods of surplus clay
by Delphine Rumo - 640-647 The waste generated by waste avoidance
by Cameron Tonkinwise - 648-654 Models in the circular economy: envisioning waste’s potential
by Rolien Hoyng
May 2023, Volume 16, Issue 3
- 311-322 What is a financial frontier?
by Andrea Ballestero & Andrea Muehlebach & Gloria Pérez-Rivera - 323-336 Relational finance: Ottoman debt, financialization, and the problem of the semi-civilized
by Julia Elyachar - 337-349 Slavery and incarceration in the frontier: the origin of convict leasing
by Michael Ralph - 350-362 Compounding financial frontiers: capital seeds and seeds for capital
by Gloria C. Pérez-Rivera - 363-376 Contract as frontier device, or, the political publics of water infrastructures
by Andrea Muehlebach - 377-391 The frontier in heterogeneous time: finance, temporality, and an economic zone on hold
by Geoffrey Rathgeb Aung - 392-408 Pan African capital? Banks, currencies, and imperial power
by Hannah Appel - 409-422 A financial frontier for Catalonia: nationalism in times of austerity
by Jorge Núñez - 423-438 Trusts at the financial frontier: the flickering forms of property, water, and governance
by Andrea Ballestero - 439-452 Financial frontiers: borders, conversions, enclosures
by Horacio Ortiz - 453-461 Afterword of ‘Financial frontiers': towards conceptualizing finance that engages both power and contingency
by Karen Ho - 462-472 Viviana Zelizer’s work as inspiration for a public sociology of money
by Ariel Wilkis - 473-475 Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London
by Luca Storti
March 2023, Volume 16, Issue 2
- 151-167 Screening for eligibility: access and resistance in Istanbul’s food banks
by Candan Turkkan - 168-182 Reading the signs: on inferential semiotics and market imagination
by Robin Porsfelt - 183-202 Karl Polanyi’s theory of fictitious commodification as a cultural political economy of institutionalization
by Bonwoo Koo & Joo-Hyoung Ji - 203-220 Platform sabotage
by Aaron Shapiro - 221-241 Lumpen utopia: money, livestreaming, and labor in emerging media worlds
by Shayan Momin - 242-259 How app companies use GitHub: on modes of valuation in the digital attention economy
by Eva Iris Otto & Jonathan Holm Salka & Anders Blok - 260-276 Toward cultural and creative industry: Chinese eSports through a business ecosystem lens
by Yupei Zhao & Qiuxian Li & Zhongxuan Lin - 277-293 Biowaste as fluid matter: valuing biogas and biofertilisers as assets in the Finnish biogas sector
by Taru Lehtokunnas & Olli Pyyhtinen - 294-297 Communities, cohorts and counter-speculators
by Emily Rosamond - 297-300 They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria
by Leila Demarest - 300-303 Digital pirates: policing intellectual property in Brazil
by Sean Johnson Andrews - 303-306 Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance
by Gary Kafer - 306-309 Decolonial Imaginings: Intersectional Conversations and Contestations
by Nora Naji
January 2023, Volume 16, Issue 1
- 1-16 ‘Take Care of Stray Cats’: biopolitical life ethics and its cosmopolitical countermethod
by Sungyong Ahn - 17-31 The engineering of stock market indices: winners and losers
by Tom Duterme - 32-46 Does social media pay for music artists? Quantitative evidence on the co-evolution of social media, streaming and live music
by Allan Watson & Joseph B. Watson & Lou Tompkins - 47-61 Cultural work and contributive justice
by Mark Banks - 62-80 ‘Driving is terrifying’: auto-mobility horizons, projections and networks in Vietnam and ASEAN
by Ivan V. Small - 81-96 Working on working women: the postfeminist mystification of employable femininity in post-crisis Spain
by Pedro M. Rey-Araújo & Laura Martínez-Jiménez & Lina Gálvez-Muñoz - 97-111 Peiwan: the cruel optimism of China’s online ‘play companions’
by Miao Li - 112-127 Out of time: the temporal limits of coronavirus-inspired solidarity with workers
by Galit Ailon - 128-130 The story of work: a new history of Humankind
by Rebecca L. Spang - 130-134 Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life
by Koray Caliskan - 134-142 Thinking infrastructures and the promise of infrastructure: towards advancing the concept of infrastructure
by Alex Christian - 142-145 Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control
by Sevde Nur Unal - 146-149 Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present
by Agustin Ferrari Braun
November 2022, Volume 15, Issue 6
- 725-734 Introduction: genre work and the new economy
by Michael M. Prentice & Ilana Gershon - 735-752 What was the project? Thoughts on genre and the project form
by Andrew Graan - 753-767 From drafts to drafting: genre work, time, and the fragility of managerial expertise in South Korea
by Michael M. Prentice - 768-781 Genres are the drive belts of the job market
by Ilana Gershon - 782-798 Phaticity as a technical mystique: the genred, multi-sited mediation of the innovation architect’s expertise
by Eitan Wilf - 799-814 Transparent constructions: genre translations in building the New India
by Adam Sargent - 815-833 New genres and obsolete expertise in the new textiles economy
by Caitrin Lynch & Adam Coppola & Andrew Holmes & Margaret Rosner - 834-837 Lagging and leading genres of the new economy
by Matthew S. Hull - 838-842 Economy shall (no longer) mean economisation
by Timothy Mitchell - 842-846 How I found my way to Max Weber
by Keith Tribe - 846-848 Finding legal meaning in economic history, by way of sociology: endings and beginnings
by Laura R. Ford - 849-853 From scarce resources to ‘the good economy’: a new ‘version of economization’ replacing Weber’s rational ascetism as the capitalist spirit?
by Kristin Asdal
September 2022, Volume 15, Issue 5
- 551-567 Playing Spotify’s game: artists’ approaches to playlisting in Latin America
by Ignacio Siles & Amy Ross Arguedas & Mónica Sancho & Ricardo Solís-Quesada - 568-583 Consumption work in household circular economy activities: findings from a cultural probe experiment
by Thomas Edward Sutcliffe - 584-598 Commodity and the commons: accumulations of capital on the space frontier
by Katarina Damjanov - 599-616 Engendering assemblages: the constitution of digital health data as an epistemic consumption object
by Eran Fisher & Zeev Rosenhek - 617-633 A Yorkstone Godzilla. A materiality of mutuality at the Halifax Building Society, 1968–1974
by Matthew Tillotson - 634-651 The figural space of the business simulacrum: examining an educative change management simulation
by Esben Langager Olsen & Johan Simonsen Abildgaard - 652-670 Pitching agri-food tech: performativity and non-disruptive disruption in Silicon Valley
by Madeleine Fairbairn & Zenia Kish & Julie Guthman - 671-687 Performing hard money: monetary policy, metaphor and masculinity in the making of EMU
by Frederic Heine - 688-703 Making uncertainty operable: social coordination through game theory in decentralized finance
by Andreas Langenohl - 704-707 Alternatives to the performance of economics
by Llerena Guiu Searle - 707-710 Beyond the Bazaar: Interconnecting Indian Markets
by Stine Simonsen Puri - 710-713 The plot to disembed: markets in the subjunctive tense
by Leilah Vevaina - 713-716 Shares, land, and market
by Tsukasa Mizushima - 716-723 Abetting the market: on property, propriety and actually existing capitalisms
by Ajay Gandhi & Sebastian Schwecke & Barbara Harriss-White & Douglas E. Haynes
July 2022, Volume 15, Issue 4
- 387-400 FinTech in Africa: an editorial introduction
by Paul Langley & Daivi Rodima-Taylor - 401-415 Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa
by Paul Langley & Andrew Leyshon - 416-435 Platformizing Ubuntu? FinTech, Inclusion, and Mutual Help in Africa
by Daivi Rodima-Taylor - 436-451 Whose money? Digital remittances, mobile money and fintech in Ghana
by Vincent Guermond - 452-467 FinTech and women’s entrepreneurship in Africa: the case of Burkina Faso and Cameroon
by Abbi Kedir & Euphrasie Kouame - 468-487 Mediating and mapping climate risk: micro-insurance and earth observation
by Rob Aitken - 488-507 Fintech and tax in Sub-Saharan Africa: taxation versus financial inclusion
by Philip Mader & Maren Duvendack & Keir Macdonald - 508-523 Fintech urbanism in the startup capital of Africa
by Andrea Pollio & Liza Rose Cirolia - 524-543 Enrolling into exclusion: African blockchain and decolonial ambitions in an evolving finance/security infrastructure
by Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn & Francesco Giumelli