This Reader brings together the exciting and innovative work
that has appeared in the last 10 years in the growing field of
cultural economy.
* * Brings together exciting and innovative work from the last ten
years in the emerging field of cultural economy.
* Contains a substantial introduction by the editors on the main
strands and history of the cultural economy approach.
* Shows how the pursuit of prosperity always involves multiple
and hybrid orderings that cannot be reduced to either the terms
culture or economy.
* Shows that thinking about cultural economy is both a
substantive task and a valuable contribution to knowledge.
* Material is organised around different links in the value
chain.
Cuprins
Acknowledgements.
Introduction. .
Part I: Production.
1. A Mixed Economy of Fashion Design (Angela Mc Robbie).
2. Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the
Global Workplace (Seán Ó’Riain).
3. Instrumentalizing the Truth of Practice (Katie Vann and
Geoffrey C. Bowker).
4. The Economy of Qualities (Michel Callon, Cécile
Méadel and Vololona Rabeharisoa).
Part II: Finance and Money.
5. Inside the Economy of Appearances (Anna Tsing).
6. Physics and Finance: S-Terms and Modern Finance as a Topic
for Science Studies (Donald Mac Kenzie).
7. Traders’ Engagement with Markets: A Postsocial Relationship
(Karin Knorr Cetina and Urs Bruegger).
Part III: Regulation.
8. Varieties of Protectors (Frederico Varese).
9. The Agony of Mammon (Lewis H. Lapham).
10. Governing by Numbers: Why Calculative Practices Matter
(Peter Miller).
Part IV: Commodity Chains.
11. African/Asian/Uptown/Downtown (P. Stoller).
12. Retailers, Knowledges and Changing Commodity Networks: The
Case of the Cut Flower Trade (A. Hughes).
13. Culinary Networks and Cultural Connections: A Conventions
Perspective (Jonathan Murdoch and Mara Miele).
Part V: Consumption.
14. Making Love in Supermarkets (Daniel Miller).
15. Window Shopping at Home: Classifieds, Catalogues and New
Consumer Skills (Alison. J. Clarke).
16. What’s in a Price? An Ethnography of Tribal Art at
Auction (Haidy Geismar).
17. It’s Showtime: On the Workplace Geographies of Display
in a Restaurant in Southeast England (Philip Crang).
Part VI: Economy of Passions.
18. Feeling Management: From Private to Commercial Uses (Arlie
Hochschild).
19. Negotiating the Bar: Sex, Money and the Uneasy Politics of
Third Space (Lisa Law).
20. A Joint’s a Joint (S. Denton and R. Morris).
21. Marking Time with Nike: The Illusion of the Durable (Celia
Lury).
Index.
Despre autor
Ash Amin is Professor of Geography and Head of the
Department of Geography at Durham University.
Nigel Thrift is Professor of Geography in the School of
Geographical Sciences at Bristol University.
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