Guest Editors: Susi Geiger, Hans Kjellberg & Robert Spencer<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a great pleasure to introduce, via this article, this Consumption Markets & Culture (CMC) special issue on \u201cShaping exchanges, building markets,\u201d arisen from an initiative that parallels this journal\u2019s ambitions and aims in many ways: in representing a crossroads for many social science disciplines, in bringing together elements and layers of market activities that all too often remain segregated in academic writing, and in embracing a multitude of empirical sites and areas of inquiry. In doing so, CMC is a unique outlet for a community that recognizes that all three constituent elements of its title are highly interrelated and that social science inquiry across disciplines should give equal focus to each. Somewhat surprisingly, then, while there has been a solid tradition of CMC papers on markets and market-making (see, for instance, Cook, Smith, and Searle 2009; Joy and Sherry 2003, 2004; Keating and McLoughlin 2005; Kjellberg 2008; Morcom 2008; Visconti 2008; Wong 2007), no less than three former editors of this journal have not too long ago noted that \u201cParadoxically, the term market is everywhere and nowhere in our literature\u201d (Venkatesh, Pe\u00f1aloza, and Firat 2006, 252). If this is so, and if the two \u201cCs\u201d this journal is dedicated to have received somewhat more attention from our academic community in the past, this special issue is an attempt to redress this balance. Our aim is to draw attention to the \u201cM\u201d that is the market; an \u201cM\u201d we believe is particularly suited to cross-disciplinary and cross-area inquiry; an \u201cM\u201d that cannot be studied in isolation but that requires close attention to its siblings consumption and culture; an \u201cM\u201d that is nonetheless worthy of special emphasis.\u201d<\/p>\n
Susi Geiger, Hans Kjellberg & Robert Spencer<\/p>\n
Bernard Cova & V\u00e9ronique Cova<\/p>\n
Tanja Schneider & Steve Woolgar<\/p>\n
Alexandre Mallard<\/p>\n
Satu Reijonen & Kjell Tryggestad<\/p>\n
Sara Lindeman<\/p>\n