The peer reviewed open access journal Valuation Studies just published its second issue. It contains four items:<\/p>\n
\u2022 An editorial \u201cValuation Studies and the Spectacle of Valuation\u201d by the editors Fabian Muniesa and Claes-Fredrik Helgesson brings up the topic that valuation is something that people may watch as entertainment, such as in television shows like the Antiques Roadshow, and suggest that there is a voyeuristic pleasure to be had in witnessing valuations being performed.<\/p>\n
\u2022 In \u201cWhat Is a Good Tomato? A Case of Valuing in Practice\u201d Frank Heuts and Annemarie Mol explore different register of valuing involved in the valuation of tomatoes as well as the importance of care for making tomatoes good.<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cRegulating Crisis: A Retrospective Ethnography of the 1982 Latin American Debt Crisis at the New York Federal Reserve Bank\u201d by Julia Elyachar looks at the daily life inside the bank during the crisis and not the least the import of devices and different styles of working and generating knowledge.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The final article, \u201cThe Conditional Sink: Counterfactual Display in the Valuation of a Carbon Offsetting\u201d, by V\u00e9ra Ehrenstein and Fabian Muniesa is a case study of a carbon offsetting reforestation project in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in particular the role of counterfactual valuations in such projects.<\/p>\n
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