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Chapter 31 - Making Room for Care in Markets and in Market Studies

from Part VII - Future (Im)Perfect Markets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2024

By
Susi Geiger  and
Olya Loza
Edited by
Susi Geiger ,
Katy Mason ,
Neil Pollock ,
Philip Roscoe ,
Annmarie Ryan ,
Stefan Schwarzkopf  and
Pascale Trompette
Susi Geiger
Affiliation:
University College Dublin
Katy Mason
Affiliation:
Lancaster University
Neil Pollock
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
Philip Roscoe
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
Annmarie Ryan
Affiliation:
University of Limerick
Stefan Schwarzkopf
Affiliation:
Copenhagen Business School
Pascale Trompette
Affiliation:
Université de Grenoble
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Summary

Where Market Studies opened the theorizing of markets to concerns of various affected publics, we propose a new shift to further destabilize understandings of what markets are and can be. This shift considers how care, as an affective, ethical, and political force, figures in markets – and, moreover, to make room for care where it may currently be absent. We draw on feminist materialist discussions of care to render explicit the ways in which care circulates in existing markets – and in Market Studies – and propose five avenues for inquiry into care and markets: care as a market object; care as a critical market maintenance practice; care as more-than-concern, more affectively, ethically, and politically committed; care as a basis to rethink market relations and construct better – fairer and more just – markets; and, finally, care as a relational force circulating between us as Market Studies researchers, the objects of our study, our workplaces, and the more-than-human worlds we belong in. We do not suggest that care is a panacea for all market ills, but offer it as an analytic of provocation – something to think with as we imagine and enact future markets.

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Market Studies
Mapping, Theorizing and Impacting Market Action
 , pp. 499 - 509
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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