Everyday Market Lives

14th October 2014

Call for papers for a workshop at Warwick University, organised by Lynne Pettinger and Liz Moor, exploring everyday market lives, including the ways in which people come to understand themselves as economic actors, and the kinds of knowledge about markets that they deploy, develop or acquire in doing so. Deadline for abstracts October 31st. Read More

Cultural Intermediaries Reader Now Out

15th September 2014

edited by Jennifer Smith Maguire and Julian Matthews offers a critical overview of Bourdieu’s sketchy notion… Read More

Public-Private Markets and Valuation: New CBS research cluster

21st July 2014

New research cluster at the Copenhagen Business School just launched, examining the consequences of the proliferation of valuation devices in the strategy of public and private organisations, led by Christian Frankel, José Ossandón and Trine Pallesen – events to features speakers including Philip Mirowski, Annelise Riles, Daniel Breslau, and Daniel Neyland Read More

Repeat! The Logics of Exercises, Trainings, Tests and Rehearsals

23rd June 2014

Call for papers for “Repeat! The Logics of Exercises, Trainings, Tests and Rehearsals” – a conference to take place at Goldsmiths in November. Deadline for abstracts July 20th. Read More

Economization of Uncertainty: New Journal of Cultural Economy Special Issue

2nd June 2014

New Special Issue of Journal of Cultural Economy on the ‘Economization of Uncertainty’ out now. Edited by Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen and Ine Van Hoyweghen, the issue contains articles by Pat O’Malley & Alex Roberts, Stephen J. Collier, José Ossandón, Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Ine Van Hoyweghen, Luis Lobo-Guerrero, plus review articles by Dean Pierides and Christopher Kelty. Read More

The Limits of Performativity: Politics of the Modern Economy now out in HBB

2nd May 2014

Edited by Franck Cochoy, Martin Giraudeau, Liz McFall

The economy is often described either as the apolitical realm of calculation or as the fully political one of domination… Read More

Marketing Theory Special Issue on Market Systems

23rd April 2014

A call for papers for a special issue of Marketing Theory on market systems edited by Markus Giesler and Eileen Fischer. Deadline for full papers April 2015 Read More

Virtual boundaries: The Social Consequences of Digital Marketing

17th April 2014

Part of the ESRC Seminar Series on Marketplace Exclusion, an event that brings together computer scientists, marketing practitioners and media researchers to discuss how digital marketing is shaping people’s lives Read More

CFP Steps towards pragmatist solidarities at sociotechnical sites, EASST 17-19th September

15th April 2014

We warmly invite papers to our Track Steps towards pragmatist solidarities at sociotechnical sites, being held at the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) conference in Toruń on September 17-19. The Track is convened by Francois Thoreau (U.Namur), Kim Hendrickx (University of Liege), Tamar Sharon (Maastricht University) and Ine Van Hoyweghen (KU Leuven). Read More

Can markets solve problems?

31st March 2014

A new project at Goldsmiths being worked on by Daniel Neyland and Sveta Milyaeva: Market-Based Initiatives as Solutions to Techno-Scientific Problems Read More