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The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader Ash Amin (University of Durham)

The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader By Ash Amin (University of Durham)

The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader by Ash Amin (University of Durham)

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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.

The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader Summary

The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader by Ash Amin (University of Durham)

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.

The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader Reviews

"Even a good old Chicago School economist can find much in the book 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

About Ash Amin (University of Durham)

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

Acknowledgements.

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 (Sean ORiain).

3. Instrumentalizing the Truth of Practice (Katie Vann and Geoffrey C. Bowker).

4. The Economy of Qualities (Michel Callon, Cecile Meadel 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. Whats in a Price? An Ethnography of Tribal Art at Auction (Haidy Geismar).

17. Its 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 Joints a Joint (S. Denton and R. Morris).

21. Marking Time with Nike: The Illusion of the Durable (Celia Lury).

Index.

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GOR007373107
9780631234296
0631234292
The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader by Ash Amin (University of Durham)
Ash Amin (University of Durham)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2003-10-14
448
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