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Valuation Studies and the Critique of Valuation

authors
Liliana Doganova, Martin Giraudeau, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Hans Kjellberg, Francis Lee, Alexandre Mallard, Andrea Mennicken, Fabian Muniesa, Ebba Sjögren, Teun Zuiderent-Jerak
in
Valuation Studies, 2(2), pp. 87–96
published
Dec 2014
themes
valuations

What are the possible relations and tensions between the study of valuation as a social practice and the critique of valuation? Valuation denotes here any social practice where the value or values of something are established, assessed, negotiated, provoked, maintained, constructed and/or contested. The question thus in effect asks how the very study of such practices relates to the exercising of critical judgement on these very same practices. This topic is pertinent here and now for a number of reasons.

read the pdf doi: 10.3384/vs.2001-5992.142287

Doganova, Liliana, Martin Giraudeau, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Hans Kjellberg, Francis Lee, Alexandre Mallard, Andrea Mennicken, Fabian Muniesa, Ebba Sjögren, and Teun Zuiderent-Jerak. 2014. "Valuation Studies and the Critique of Valuation." Valuation Studies 2(2): 87-96. https://doi.org/10.3384/vs.2001-5992.142287