A Sociology of Dragons: danah boyd on AI, Trump, and critique

Guidance on Special Issues and Themed Sections

JCE welcomes submissions for special issues or themed sections that relate to or expand upon its

The great tragedy of anthropology: an interview with Gillian Tett

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.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Changes to our editorial line-up, part 4

We are very pleased to announce that Katy Mason has joined the Journal of Cultural Economy editorial team as an Associate Editor. Katy Mason is Chair of Markets...