The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader 1st Edition by Ash Amin, Nigel Thrift 9780631234289 0631234284

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ISBN 10: 0631234284

ISBN 13: 9780631234289

Author: Ash Amin, Nigel J. Thrift

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.

Table of contents:

Part I Production

1 A Mixed Economy of Fashion Design

2 Net-Working for a Living:Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace

3 Instrumentalizing the Truth of Practice

4 The Economy of Qualities

Part II Finance and Money

5 Inside the Economy of Appearances

6 Physics and Finance:S-Terms and Modern Finance as a Topic for Science Studies

7 Traders ’Engagement with Markets:A Postsocial Relationship

Part III Regulation

8 Varieties of Protectors

9 The Agony of Mammon

10 Governing by Numbers:Why Calculative Practices Matter

Part IV Commodity Chains

11 African/Asian/Uptown/Downtown

12 Retailers,Knowledges and Changing Commodity Networks: The Case of the Cut Flower Trade

13 Culinary Networks and Cultural Connections: A Conventions Perspective

Part V Consumption

14 Making Love in Supermarkets

15 Window Shopping at Home:Classifieds,Catalogues and New Consumer Skills

16 What ’s in a Price?An Ethnography of Tribal Art at Auction

17 It ’s Showtime:On the Workplace Geographies of Display in a Restaurant in Southeast England

Part VI Economy of Passions

18 Feeling Management:From Private to Commercial Uses

19 Negotiating the Bar:Sex,Money and the Uneasy Politics of Third Space

20 A Joint ’s a Joint

21 Marking Time with Nike:The Illusion of the Durable

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