Economy & Society

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

New from algorithmic societies - The Politics of the Prompt: Government in the Age of Generative AI @econsocjournal.bsky.social So proud of this one, it reflects longstanding research tracing the politics of AI prompting. I love working with these fabulous folks www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

We are delighted to welcome four new members to our Editorial Board:

- Kimberly Chong (UCL)
- Sarah El-Kazaz (SOAS)
- Paul R. Gilbert (Sussex)
- Joy Y. Zhang (Kent)

Their disciplinary expertise and research interests will broaden and deepen our editorial collective.

So excited for the expansion of the E&S board with excellent colleagues! Welcome!

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@joyzhang.bsky.social
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We are delighted to welcome four new members to our Editorial Board:

- Kimberly Chong (UCL)
- Sarah El-Kazaz (SOAS)
- Paul R. Gilbert (Sussex)
- Joy Y. Zhang (Kent)

Their disciplinary expertise and research interests will broaden and deepen our editorial collective.

‘Land makes me feel so secure’: Property, dependence and escape from ‘wageless life’ on Nairobi’s peri-urbanizing peripheries With reference to Michael Denning’s concept of ‘wageless life’, this paper illustrates the social and economic conditions under which young men in central Kenya attempt to escape precarious lives o...

Now available in Latest Articles. Peter Lockwood investigates property's promise of escape from a life of labour in Nairobi
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Drawing on Sumner’s folkways, this article traces how Southern Democrats ditching their defense of Jim Crow shifted the terrain from racial justice to federal intrusion, recasting discrimination as a private custom.

By Tamar Hofnung in @econsocjournal.bsky.social

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In case you missed this in the summer haze, our Early-Career Paper Prize 2026 is now open.
Deadline: 15th December 2025.
Publication plus £1,000 for the Prize winner!

American folkways: Laissez-faire and the economic objection to civil rights reform This paper examines how Southern Democrats reframed their opposition to anti-discrimination efforts during the 1945–1946 Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) debates by blending racial conserv...

Now available in Latest Articles, Tamar Hofnung's timely analysis of opposition to civil rights reform in 1940s America

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In case you missed this in the summer haze, our Early-Career Paper Prize 2026 is now open.
Deadline: 15th December 2025.
Publication plus £1,000 for the Prize winner!

Occult enemies of the market order Post-crisis transformations have sparked debates about a new authoritarian stage and/or post-neoliberal tendencies within neoliberal societies. Drawing on the Brazilian case, this paper analyses th...

Saiu publicado na Economy and Society @econsocjournal.bsky.social o artigo que escrevi com Guilherme Casarões (@casaroes.bsky.social), Letícia Cesarino (@letcesar.bsky.social) e Mariana Côrtes, intitulado "Occult enemies of the market order".
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Great to see several articles from our journal included in this collection @tandfresearch.bsky.social All 40 articles in the collection are Free to Access before February 2026!
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We are greatly saddened by the passing of Michel Callon, a key contributor to debates in our journal about economization, marketization, and ecologization. RIP
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The Economy and Society Early Career Paper Prize 2026 is now live 🙌
£1000 prize
Submission deadline: 15/12/25
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ICYMI Early Career Paper Prize 2026!

It entails two good things in one: publication in the journal 2026 & £1000 award.

Another one which the journal excels in: in-depth peer-reviews; every submission gets reviewed by members of editorial board, plus externals.

We've got a super exciting new initiative for early career scholar at @econsocjournal.bsky.social! Submit your papers for a £1000 Early Career Paper Prize 2026.

The Economy and Society Early Career Paper Prize 2026 is now live.
£1000 prize.
Submission deadline: 15/12/25
Details here and in the News and CfP section of our website
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Happy to share the Early Career Paper Prize 2026 initiative @econsocjournal.bsky.social - publication in the journal 2026 and £1000 award. Two good things in one.

There is some really fabulous early career scholarship out there right now. It’s always the case but it’s especially important in context of the situation in universities (& in the world). Please consider submitting a paper to the @econsocjournal.bsky.social early career paper prize. Deadline 15 Dec

The Economy and Society Early Career Paper Prize 2026 is now live.
£1000 prize.
Submission deadline: 15/12/25
Details here and in the News and CfP section of our website
files.taylorandfrancis.com/economy-and-...

Economy and Society Volume 54, Issue 2 of Economy and Society

Issue 2 of 2025 is out now! With papers on ecologization, gendered labour of finance, temporalities of indebtedness, housing in Swedish growth model, state capitalism in France, economization of immunization, cyber socialism/neoliberalism, and necro-economics
www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...

With a brand new series by Michel Callon,Koray Caliskan & Donald MacKenzie on Ecologization!!!

Part 1: Towards assets-actifs and care practices

Part 2: Practices, strategies and devices for managing assets-actifs

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Economy and Society Volume 54, Issue 2 of Economy and Society

Issue 2 of 2025 is out now! With papers on ecologization, gendered labour of finance, temporalities of indebtedness, housing in Swedish growth model, state capitalism in France, economization of immunization, cyber socialism/neoliberalism, and necro-economics
www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...

Oxford, punting boats

It’s that time of that year again with lovely @econsocjournal.bsky.social people

Open access article in @econsocjournal.bsky.social : From jurisdiction to veridiction: Expertise and economization of immunization policy in the United States

Super proud of this paper led by Dmitrii Zhikharevich @univie.ac.at! Historical and timely, too!

RFK Jr. essentially wants to force every person to enroll in the kind of programs run by insurers that tie your moral worth and market value to behavioral data from wearable trackers. They don’t work. I wrote about that corporate infrastructure and ideology here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We've been working too hard lately, too busy for social media. But we can report that Issue 2 of 2025 is incoming, plus a number of exciting Special Issues and Special Sections are forthcoming later this year and into 2026. Onwards and upwards on difficult times.

They’re back.