The Blackwell cultural economy reader / edited by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amin, Ash.

Thrift, N. J.

Series:

Blackwell readers in geography.

Blackwell readers in geography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Sociological aspects.

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 p.)

xxx, 413 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2004.

Language Note:

English

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 ec

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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 Chains11 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 Space20 A Joint 's a Joint; 21 Marking Time with Nike:The Illusion of the Durable; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611311278

9781281311276

1281311278

9780470706954

0470706953

9780470774274

0470774274

9780470777374

0470777370

OCLC:

214282106