Amin / Thrift The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77737-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten, E-Book

This Reader brings together the exciting and innovative workthat has appeared in the last 10 years in the growing field ofcultural economy.
* * Brings together exciting and innovative work from the last tenyears in the emerging field of cultural economy.
* Contains a substantial introduction by the editors on the mainstrands and history of the cultural economy approach.
* Shows how the pursuit of prosperity always involves multipleand hybrid orderings that cannot be reduced to either the termsculture or economy.
* Shows that thinking about cultural economy is both asubstantive task and a valuable contribution to knowledge.
* Material is organised around different links in the valuechain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amin, Ash

Thrift, Nigel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.
Introduction. .
Part I: Production.
1. A Mixed Economy of Fashion Design (Angela McRobbie).
2. Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in theGlobal Workplace (Seán Ó'Riain).
3. Instrumentalizing the Truth of Practice (Katie Vann andGeoffrey C. Bowker).
4. The Economy of Qualities (Michel Callon, CécileMéadel 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 Topicfor 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: TheCase of the Cut Flower Trade (A. Hughes).
13. Culinary Networks and Cultural Connections: A ConventionsPerspective (Jonathan Murdoch and Mara Miele).
Part V: Consumption.
14. Making Love in Supermarkets (Daniel Miller).
15. Window Shopping at Home: Classifieds, Catalogues and NewConsumer Skills (Alison. J. Clarke).
16. What's in a Price? An Ethnography of Tribal Art atAuction (Haidy Geismar).
17. It's Showtime: On the Workplace Geographies of Displayin a Restaurant in Southeast England (Philip Crang).
Part VI: Economy of Passions.
18. Feeling Management: From Private to Commercial Uses (ArlieHochschild).
19. Negotiating the Bar: Sex, Money and the Uneasy Politics ofThird Space (Lisa Law).
20. A Joint's a Joint (S. Denton and R. Morris).
21. Marking Time with Nike: The Illusion of the Durable (CeliaLury).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Ash Amin is Professor of Geography and Head of theDepartment of Geography at Durham University.
Nigel Thrift is Professor of Geography in the School ofGeographical Sciences at Bristol University.