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  1. Sumptuary Labor: How Liberal Market Economies Regulate Consumption.Chi Phoenix Wang & Jeffrey J. Sallaz - 2016 - Politics and Society 44 (4):551-572.
    Liberal market states promote the responsible consumption of potentially dangerous commodities. But the work of enforcing sumptuary law is in fact delegated to service employees in the private sector. In this article such work is termed sumptuary labor. Although the ability of states to privatize sumptuary enforcement is a remarkable accomplishment, it is by no means a seamless one. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among bartenders and casino dealers, the article elaborates patterned conflicts of interest that arise during the performance of (...)
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  • Scientific boundary work and food regime transitions: the double movement and the science of food safety regulation.Amy A. Quark & Rachel Lienesch - 2017 - Agriculture and Human Values 34 (3):645-661.
    What role do science and scientists play in the transition between food regimes? Scientific communities are integral to understanding political struggle during food regime transitions in part due to the broader scientization of politics since the late 1800s. While social movements contest the rules of the game in explicitly value-laden terms, scientific communities make claims to the truth based on boundary work, or efforts to mark some science and scientists as legitimate while marking others as illegitimate. In doing so, scientific (...)
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  • Karl Polanyi, the “always-embedded market economy,” and the re-writing of The Great Transformation.Hannes Lacher - 2019 - Theory and Society 48 (5):671-707.
    This article seeks to subject Fred Block and Margaret Somers’ influential reconstruction of Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation to a systematic review. I show that Block & Somers’s central claim—that Polanyi’s thinking underwent a “theoretical shift” as he wrote his seminal book—is not supported by archival evidence. I demonstrate that all the narrative keys that Block & Somers advance to lend plausibility to their discovery of a “theory of the always-embedded market economy” in The Great Transformation, wither under critical probing. (...)
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  • The Food-Energy-Climate Change Trilemma: Toward a Socio-Economic Analysis.Mark Harvey - 2014 - Theory, Culture and Society 31 (5):155-182.
    The food-energy-climate change trilemma refers to the stark alternatives presented by the need to feed a world population growing to nine billion, the attendant risks of land conversion and use for global climate change, and the way these are interconnected with the energy crisis arising from the depletion of oil. Theorizing the interactions between political economies and their related natural environments, in terms of both finitudes of resources and generation of greenhouse gases, presents a major challenge to social sciences. Approaches (...)
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  • Europe’s ‘American Dream’.John Erik Fossum - 2009 - European Journal of Social Theory 12 (4):483-504.
    Recent years (pre-Obama) of transatlantic rifts should not deceive us into ignoring the great attraction that the United States has exerted, and continues to exert, on Europeans. This article, first, seeks to uncover the normative assumptions that underpin the US as an exemplar or polity model for the EU, as seen from a European perspective. Second, it briefly considers whether the traits that Europeans find attractive about the US as a polity model have much real bearing on the EU, not (...)
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