Infrastructuring Value Worlds: Connections and Conventions of Capitalist Accumulation

Edward F. Fischer (2024)
In: Ethnos 89(2), pp. 312-322.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00141844.2023.2180064

Abstract
“Two of the most productive lines of social science inquiry in recent years come from the study of ‘values’ and that of ‘infrastructures.’ Not coincidentally, both are capacious terms. Values are plastic and dynamic, constantly and creatively deployed and reinterpreted – yet their power is legitimated by a seeming durability, their connection to something transcendent as recognised by social conventions. In turn, infrastructures are characterised by their durability – yet, they are constantly and creatively employed and repurposed in practice. Bringing these two approaches together, the synthesis presented in this collection reveals how infrastructures encode social, political, and cultural (as well as economic) values through social conventions, and how they facilitate and shape capitalist accumulation by connecting heterogeneous value worlds.”


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