Ash Amin / Nigel J. Thrift

Cultural Economy Reader

Ed. by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Readers in Geography
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 775g
• ISBN-13: 9780631234296
• ISBN-10: 0631234292
• Artikelnr.: 14852512

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

"Even a good old Chicago School economist can find much in the bookto widen her horizons. That 'the economy' is embeddedin social relations and is linguistic and is ethical is obvious toany 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 broughttogether a rich set of studies to make the case that in economiclife, calculation is cultural. Across a wonderful range of settings- from financial exchanges to supermarkets - thislively volume is essential reading for anyone studying economicsociology." David Stark, University of Columbia

"Amin and Thrift's reader is an indispensable purchase for thosewho research and teach on the economy-culture problematic. Its 22essays represent the wide diversity of viewpoints that have emergedthis last decade or so - theoretically, topically and politically... There really is something in here for everybody, and I thinkthis book should be read by those wishing to know more about theculture-economy debate, as well as those familiar with its maincontours ... I dare you not to buy it." Noel Castree, CulturalGeographies