After the Turn: How the Performativity of Economics Matters

Boldyrev, Ivan; Svetlova, Ekaterina

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“…Our case illustrates the genealogies of economisation and the construction of social facts (Boldyrev & Svetlova, 2016;Learmonth et al, 2016), two emergent areas of performativity scholarship.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Most recently, scholars have focused on the performative nature of strategy, as managers or entrepreneurs engage with the rituals and journeys of organising (van den Ende & van Marrewijk, 2017; Garud et al, 2017). Performativity therefore concerns both the ‘routine reproduction of social phenomena and creation of new social facts’ (Boldyrev & Svetlova, 2016, p. 15). As such, it presents opportunities to explore the role of narratives and myths in shaping the organisation of markets, and explain the calculation of collaborations, value or offerings that constitute them.…”

Section: The Organisation Of Markets Performativity and Mythmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Understanding the role of myth illuminates the performative construction of new social facts via the simultaneous production and consumption of a myth-discourse in form. Our interest should not be tied to ‘speaking under given, already institutionalized conditions of felicity, but about the creation of those conditions through persuasion and making believe’ (Boldyrev & Svetlova, 2016, p. 15). Performativity is often a site of boundary work: contests between narratives depend both on the material accountability of claims presented, and on how they enrol supporting actors and their own narratives (Geiger & Finch, 2016).…”

Section: The Organisation Of Markets Performativity and Mythmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our study therefore contributes to the expanding literature on the organisation of markets (Ahrne, Aspers, & Brunsson, 2015), with a focus on the role of myth as a performative device. We critically engage with performativity research in organization studies, by drawing attention to the creation of economic value 8 (i.e., capitalisation; Muniesa et al, 2017) from the raw materials of myth and story, which enables us to trace the genealogy of economisation (Boldyrev & Svetlova, 2016) by unmasking taken-for-granted assumptions about how entrepreneurial actors realise value in a new market.…”

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Performing a Myth to Make a Market: The construction of the ‘magical world’ of Santa

Palo

Mason

Roscoe

2018

Organization Studies

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If you believe in Santa, do not read this paper. Through an in-depth, qualitative, empirical study, we follow the Santa myth to a remote northern location in Lapland, Finland where, for one month a year, multiple actors come together to create a tourist market offering: the chance to visit Santa in his ‘magical world’. We explore how the myth is transformed into reality through performative, organisational speech acts, whereby felicitous conditions for the performance of visits to Santa are embedded in a complex socio-material network. We develop the performative turn (Gond et al., 2016) in organisational studies by introducing a new category of speech act, ‘translocution’, a compendium of imagining, discussing, proposing, negotiating and contracting that transforms the myth into a model of an imaginary-real world. Through translocutionary acts, actors calculate, organise the socio-material networks of the market, and manage the considerable uncertainty inherent in its operation. Details of the myth become market facts, while commercial constructs fade into the imaginary. The result, when felicitous conditions are achieved, is a ‘Merry Christmas’ of magical, performative power.

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Section: The Organisation Of Markets Performativity and Mythmentioning

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Section: The Organisation Of Markets Performativity and Mythmentioning

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Performing a Myth to Make a Market: The construction of the ‘magical world’ of Santa

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Roscoe

2018

Organization Studies

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“…I think that Hegel did not develop an independent economic theory deliberately, as his focus was to show that the 'system of needs' cannot be analysed properly without making structures of embeddedness into 'Sittlichkeit' (ethical life) explicit (compare Neschen 2008). 17 For a comprehensive overview of recent research on performativity, see Boldyrev and Svetlova (2016). 18 I leave aside here the even more fundamental question whether the natural science also have performative functions which is a position that is certainly implied by many contributions to Science and Technology Studies.…”

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Dilthey and Darwin Combined? 19th Century Geisteswissenschaft for 21st Century Cultural Science

Herrmann‐Pillath

2018

Cultural Science Journal

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This paper explores the relevance of Dilthey’s conceptualisation of the ‘Geisteswissenschaften’ (human sciences) for Cultural Science. In a nutshell, I argue that Cultural Science is Dilthey plus Darwin. In this effort, I define the Geisteswissenschaften as ‘performative sciences’: Taking economics as an example, I show that the Geisteswissenschaften are sciences which are ontologically productive in creating and performing the object of their research. That means, they are inherently normative since they entail critical reflexivity as a major mode of research. Following Dilthey, Geisteswissenschaften are deeply historical, which implies that their disciplinary structure is evolving together with their objects. Therefore, I argue that the 19th century division of disciplines needs to be thoroughly overhauled in the 21st century, including the division between economics and sociology, which is a left-over from 19th century nation-state development. New disciplines, with Cultural Science and Technosphere Science as prime examples, must be established to cope with the challenges of our times: where human agency, culture and technology have blurred long-established boundaries separating nature, culture and society; where identity and meaning have become global, fluid, contested and reflexive phenomena; and where nature (the environment) and culture (cities) are inextricably interrelated in the dynamics of the emergent Anthropocene system.

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Economic analyses of repugnant market transactions: a modest typology

Cserne

2023

Journal of Institutional Economics

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Economic accounts of repugnance concern two broad questions: the rationalisation of sentiments of repugnance (do emotional and visceral reactions of repugnance track valid reasons for not engaging in or condemning certain (trans)actions?) and institutional design (how to institute, regulate, or restrict markets in response to reasonable objections). If repugnance expresses valid practical reasons for regulating or limiting markets, our institutions should acknowledge and express these. If attitudes of repugnance are not rationalisable in the sense of instrumental or moral values, we should disregard or eventually counteract or reduce them. Focusing on a special case of repugnance, when commodification, i.e., the sale of goods or services for money meets societal disapproval, this paper identifies three characteristic ways to combine conceptual, empirical, and normative arguments and map repugnance into a disciplinary ‘epistemic frame’ of economics: repugnance as taste; repugnance as proxy for market failures or moral reasons; repugnance as hypocrisy or contingent cultural fact. Correspondingly, economists advise to (1) work around; (2) make sense of; and (3) explain away people's sentiments of repugnance.

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After the Turn: How the Performativity of Economics Matters

Cited by 16 publications

References 97 publications

Performing a Myth to Make a Market: The construction of the ‘magical world’ of Santa

Performing a Myth to Make a Market: The construction of the ‘magical world’ of Santa

Dilthey and Darwin Combined? 19th Century Geisteswissenschaft for 21st Century Cultural Science

Economic analyses of repugnant market transactions: a modest typology

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