<div dir="ltr"><div><p><span style="background-color:transparent">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p>We are delighted to share the publication of our special issue in the <em>Journal of Cultural Economy</em>, <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2026.2694361#abstract">Economic Moralities: Value Claims on the Future.</a></p><p>The theoretical approach we advance draws on linguistic and semiotic anthropology to conceptualize economic moralities as forms of “semiotic ideology.” We explore how people navigate multiple, sometimes contradictory moral-economic registers and how these semiotic processes shape the production of value and the circulation of resources.</p><p>To celebrate the publication, we warmly invite you to join us for an online launch and discussion with the authors and editors.</p><p><strong>Monday, 2 November 2026</strong><br><strong>2:00–3:00 pm CET</strong><br><strong>Online via Zoom:</strong> <a href="https://unibe-ch.zoom.us/my/stefan.leins">https://unibe-ch.zoom.us/my/stefan.leins</a></p><p>We look forward to discussing the themes explored in the issue and celebrating its publication with you!</p><p>Warm wishes,</p><p>Chelsie Yount (CNRS)<br>Stefan Leins (University of Bern)</p></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Chelsie Yount, PhD<br></div><div dir="ltr">CNRS, IMAF<br><div>+33 06 40 96 48 92</div><div style="text-align:left"><a href="https://www.pennpress.org/9781512827569/selective-solidarity/" target="_blank"><img src="https://pennsylvania-press-us.imgix.net/covers/9781512827569.jpg?auto=format&w=145" alt="Selective Solidarity"></a></div><div><b style="font-size:x-small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Book:</span></u></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <a href="https://www.pennpress.org/9781512827569/selective-solidarity/" target="_blank">Selective Solidarity: Children and middle-class moralities in transnational Senegal </a>(Penn 2025)</span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span><font color="#1f497d" face="Tahoma, sans-serif">(30% discount code (US): PENN-CYOUNT30 International: FF25)</font></b></div></div><div><font size="1"><b><br></b></font></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aman.28005" target="_blank"><font size="1"><b>“Our Planet: Too Big to Fail”: The semiotics of capitalist responses to</b></font></a> <a href="https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aman.28005" target="_blank"><font size="1"><b>climate change. American Anthropologist.</b></font></a></p></div><div><font size="1"><b><br></b></font></div><div></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="1"><b><a href="https://shs.cairn.info/revue-politique-africaine-2020-3-page-83?lang=fr" target="_blank">Investir dans plusieurs classes sociales : Enfance transnationale et accueil</a> <a href="https://shs.cairn.info/revue-politique-africaine-2020-3-page-83?lang=fr" target="_blank">des enfants de la diaspora à Dakar. Politique Africaine. </a></b></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="1"><b><br></b></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/37874395/Gifts_trips_and_Facebook_families_children_and_the_semiotics_of_kinship_in_transnational_Senegal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank"><font size="1"><b>Gifts, Trips, and Facebook Families: Children and the semiotics of kinship in transnational Senegal</b></font></a>. </p><p style="margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="1"><b><br></b></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/25476164/Snack_Sharing_and_the_Moral_Metalanguage_of_Exchange_Childrens_Reproduction_of_Rank_Based_Redistribution_in_Senegal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" target="_blank"><font size="1"><b>Snack Sharing and the Moral Metalanguage of Exchange: Children's Reproduction of Rank-Based Redistribution in Senegal</b></font></a></p></div></div></div></div></div>