Features: 28 Articles

The great tragedy of anthropology: an interview with Gillian Tett

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Twenty Years After: The workshop on cultural economy

This page documents the one day workshop held at City University in January 2020 to mark the 20th anniversary of the inception of 'cultural economy'. WHAT WAS...

The workshop on cultural economy: Twenty years after

This post is part of a series reflecting on two decades of cultural economy, since the original “workshop on cultural economy” was organised by Paul Du Gay and...

Cultural Studies’ economic legacies

This post is the second part of a series reflecting on two decades of cultural economy, since the original “workshop on cultural economy” was organised by Paul Du...

How can experts help governments think?

JCE's editors are delighted to present an excerpt from Glen O'Hara's inaugural professorial lecture at Oxford Brookes University, delivered on 9 May 2018. ...

Demanding the impossible: a strike zine

This article is part of a JCE online curation of...

Alternative accounts: Archiving the 2018 UK university strikes

A JCE online curation of the UK university 2018 industrial action. For illustration purposes, we draw inspiration from 

Unrolling the consultants and challenging the "DB good, DC bad" viewpoint

This article is part of a JCE online curation of the...

Unrolling who is behind the drive to end the Defined-Benefit pension scheme?

This article is part of a JCE online curation of the...

Unrolling the 2014 pension review

This article is part of a JCE online curation of the...

The means and ends of higher education

This article is part of a JCE online curation of the...

Deficit, what deficit? The politics of financial fact

Pensions are under threat. You will be familiar with the headline numbers – pensions slashed by over half, to a level where the very survival of the university sector seems in jeopardy. I have done the numbers, like everyone else, and they make grim reading. But how did this whole mess come about? At root, it’s a struggle over risk and who should carry it.

Looking for culture through economy, through capitalisation, through Milton Keynes: a film by Sapphire Goss

To mark the JCE's 10th anniversary we commissioned a film about Milton Keynes that delves back into the history of Journal of Cultural Economy and its links to the work of...

The responsibilities of marketography

What makes a market a market? Where do markets begin and end? How might we go about following them? What is the role of the researcher in detecting their (in)consistencies?...

Hidden gems: 10 Groundbreaking books that uncover the human faces of economics

Central banks, economic theory, and financial behavior are not topics that we normally associate with anthropology. Of course, many of you will have read best-sellers like...

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