Journal of Cultural Economy
Call for Papers
Journal of Cultural Economy is part of the Culture, Economy and the Social publishing programme of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change (CRESC). Its concern is with the role played by various forms of material cultural practice in the organisation of the economy and the social, and of the relations between them. As such it will provide a unique interdisciplinary forum for work on these questions from across the social sciences and humanities. These include the contributions of actor network theory and science studies to debates about the ‘performativity’ of the economy and the social and the parallel discussions about the distributive nature of economic and social agency across networks of things and persons that is evident in social anthropology, and material culture studies. In cultural studies, feminism and sociology, a range of perspectives have been deployed to explore the making up of social and organizational identities, and this has been complemented by approaches to the governance of economies and of the social stimulated by Foucault’s work on ‘governmentality’. This has been paralleled by important historical work on the relations between culture, economy and the social. A renewed focus on material cultures of production and consumption has also been animated by the work of Gilles Deleuze and of Pierre Bourdieu. While all of these approaches to the relations between culture, economy and the social have interacted with and influenced each other, there has been a relative shortage of debate across and between them. Journal of Cultural Economy seeks to remedy this deficiency by providing the premiere forum for debating the relations between culture, economy and the social in all their various manifestations.
Editors
- Tony Bennett
- Liz McFall
- Mike Pryke
The editors welcome original article-contributions from relevant social science and humanities disciplines and interdisciplinary perspectives. Articles addressing methodological debates are especially welcome. Articles submitted for consideration should have not been published elsewhere or be under consideration for another journal. Manuscripts must conform to the Harvard style with a maximum length of 8,000 words, including notes and references. Submissions should be delivered as an e-mail attachment to Karen Ho, the journal administrator, at Cultural-Economy@open.ac.uk. The editors can be contacted directly for advice prior to submission at the following email addresses: Tony Bennett (T.Bennett@open.ac.uk), Liz McFall (E.R.McFall@open.ac.uk), Mike Pryke (M.D.Pryke@open.ac.uk).
The editors also invite original submissions to a ‘Review and Commentary’ section, which is a regular feature of the journal. Contributions to this section are to be short pieces (of up to 2,000 words), and may include book reviews, suggestions for new directions in theory and research, commentary on general aspects of the relations between culture, economy and the social, and responses to past journal articles. Such submissions should be delivered as an e-mail attachment to Karen Ho at the address indicated above.
Editorial Board
- Lisa Adkins, Goldsmiths University of London
- Tony Bennett, Open University
- Paul du Gay, University of Warwick
- Sarah Green, University of Manchester
- Patrick Joyce, University of Manchester
- John Law, Lancaster University
- Celia Lury, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Liz McFall, Open University
- Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Donald Mackenzie, University of Edinburgh
- Bill Maurer, University of California
- Frank Mort, University of Manchester
- Mike Pryke, Open University
- Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick
- Alan Warde, University of Manchester
- Karel Williams, University of Manchester (Chair)
Contact Details
ESRC Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change (CRESC), The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK.
(CRESC is jointly managed by the University of Manchester and The Open University)
