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Geographies of markets: Materials, morals and monsters in motion

Christian BerndtMarc Boeckler

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Sociotechnical systemConceptualizationmedia_common.quotation_subjectGeography Planning and DevelopmentPerspective (graphical)RationalityCapitalismMotion (physics)10122 Institute of Geography3305 Geography Planning and DevelopmentPerformativitySociology910 Geography & travelEconomic systemPositive economicsDiversity (politics)media_common

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Approaching processes of capitalist market exchange from a cultural economic perspective, we identify three strands of research that are all part of a widespread ‘pragmatic turn’ in the study of economic activities: (1) the conceptualization of markets as heterogeneous arrangements of people, things and sociotechnical devices; (2) the insight that multiple frames of reference are mobilized in everyday market activities in addition to instrumental rationality; and (3) approaches that combine an interest in the performance of diversity and difference in concrete market contexts with an attention to mobility in network capitalism.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132510384498