The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader
1. Auflage Oktober 2003
448 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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.
Introduction. .
Part I: Production.
1. A Mixed Economy of Fashion Design (Angela McRobbie).
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 MacKenzie).
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.
to widen her horizons. That 'the economy' is embedded
in social relations and is linguistic and is ethical is obvious to
any student of society. Yet Samuelsonian economics denies all this.
The Reader should open eyes all round." Deirdre McCloskey,
University of Illinois at Chicago
"This is a terrific collection! Amin and Thrift have brought
together a rich set of studies to make the case that in economic
life, calculation is cultural. Across a wonderful range of settings
- from financial exchanges to supermarkets - this
lively volume is essential reading for anyone studying economic
sociology." David Stark, University of Columbia
"Amin and Thrift's reader is an indispensable purchase for those
who research and teach on the economy-culture problematic. Its 22
essays represent the wide diversity of viewpoints that have emerged
this last decade or so - theoretically, topically and politically
... There really is something in here for everybody, and I think
this book should be read by those wishing to know more about the
culture-economy debate, as well as those familiar with its main
contours ... I dare you not to buy it." Noel Castree, Cultural
Geographies
Department of Geography at Durham University.
Nigel Thrift is Professor of Geography in the School of
Geographical Sciences at Bristol University.
