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The –ography of markets (or, the responsibilities of market studies)

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  • Philip Roscoe
  • Olga Loza

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How should we write about markets? What responsibilities does this writing bring upon us? This paper offers an immanent critique of ‘market studies’ scholarship, and through this a call to reflection and reformed action. Turning the intellectual framework of market studies upon itself, we come to see its texts as performative and agential. We discuss these qualities and the associated responsibilities via a reading of literature from the domain of ethnography. An auto-ethnographic sketch of market writing allows us to consider the problematic nature of expertise for market studies scholars and the agency and power of our texts. We find a dual moment of performativity from which our texts emerge more powerful than their authors. On this basis we offer a vision of critical interventions embedded in our texts, underpinned by the intellectual axioms of the market studies programme.

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  • Philip Roscoe & Olga Loza, 2019. "The –ography of markets (or, the responsibilities of market studies)," Journal of Cultural Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(3), pages 215-227, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jculte:v:12:y:2019:i:3:p:215-227
    DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1557730
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    1. Roscoe, Philip & Willman, Paul, 2021. "Flaunt the imperfections: information, entanglements and the regulation of London’s Alternative Investment Market," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 114480, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    2. Olga Loza & Philip Roscoe, 2024. "Making Markets Material: Enactments, Resistances, and Erasures of Materiality in the Graduate Labour Market," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 38(3), pages 684-704, June.

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