The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader

by Amin, Ash; Thrift, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9780631234296
• ISBN10: 0631234292
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-05
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	x
Part I Production	1	(80)
A Mixed Economy of Fashion Design	3	(12)
Angela McRobbie
Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace	15	(25)
Sean O'Riain
Instrumentalizing the Truth of Practice	40	(18)
Katie Vann
Geoffrey C. Bowker
The Economy of Qualities	58	(23)
Michel Callon
Cecile Meadel
Vololona Rabeharisoa
Part II Finance and Money	81	(62)
Inside the Economy of Appearances	83	(18)
Anna Tsing
Physics and Finance: S-Terms and Modern Finance as a Topic for Science Studies	101	(20)
Donald MacKenzie
Traders' Engagement with Markets: A Postsocial Relationship	121	(22)
Karin Knorr Cetina
Urs Bruegger
Part III Regulation	143	(48)
Varieties of Protectors	145	(19)
Frederico Varese
The Agony of Mammon	164	(15)
Lewis H. Lapham
Governing by Numbers: Why Calculative Practices Matter	179	(12)
Peter Miller
Part IV Commodity Chains	191	(58)
African/Asian/Uptown/Downtown	193	(17)
P. Stoller
Retailers, Knowledges and Changing Commodity Networks: The Case of the Cut Flower Trade	210	(21)
A. Hughes
Culinary Networks and Cultural Connections: A Conventions Perspective	231	(18)
Jonathan Murdoch
Mara Miele
Part V Consumption	249	(78)
Making Love in Supermarkets	251	(15)
Daniel Miller
Window Shopping at Home: Classifieds, Catalogues and New Consumer Skills	266	(23)
Alison. J. Clarke
What's in a Price? An Ethnography of Tribal Art at Auction	289	(18)
Haidy Geismar
It's Showtime: On the Workplace Geographies of Display in a Restaurant in Southeast England	307	(20)
Philip Crang
Part VI Economy of Passions	327	(77)
Feeling Management: From Private to Commercial Uses	329	(23)
Arlie Hochschild
Negotiating the Bar: Sex, Money and the Uneasy Politics of Third Space	352	(16)
Lisa Law
A Joint's a Joint	368	(16)
S. Denton
R. Morris
Marking Time with Nike: The Illusion of the Durable	384	(20)
Celia Lury
Index	404