[Linganth] Announcing special issue: Genre Work in the New Economy

[Mike Prentice]

Dear colleagues,



We are happy to announce the publication of a special issue
<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/15/6?nav=tocList> of the *Journal
of Cultural Economy* with contributions by a number of linguistic
anthropologists.

This special issue, ‘Genre Work in the New Economy,’ sheds light on how
actors adapt to structural changes in capitalism, changes which unsettle
legitimate or recognized genres of economic participation. The collected
papers in this issue reveal that a substantive way in which economic actors
encounter broader destabilizations is through changes in the ways they must
act in, and are construed by, shifting genres of practice. We introduce the
concept of ‘genre work’ to account for the ways that actors make meaning
across multiple genres. The volume speaks broadly to analysts of cultural
economy on the methodological importance and analytical value of looking at
how multiple genres interact ethnographically. We hope linguistic
anthropologists will find many familiar threads here as well.



The articles in the issue are:

- Introduction: genre work and the new economy
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2022.2087721>, by
Michael Prentice and Ilana Gershon

- What was the project? Thoughts on genre and the project form
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2022.2087716> by
Andrew Graan

- From drafts to drafting: genre work, time, and the fragility of
managerial expertise in South Korea
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2022.2087715> by
Michael Prentice

- Genres are the drive belts of the job market
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2022.2087714> by
Ilana Gershon

- Phaticity as a technical mystique: the genred, multi-sited mediation of
the innovation architect’s expertise
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2021.1927148> by
Eitan Wilf

- Transparent constructions: genre translations in building the New India
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2022.2087717>, by
Adam Sargent

- New genres and obsolete expertise in the new textiles economy
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2022.2087719> by
Caitrin Lynch, Adam Coppola, Andrew Holmes & Margaret Rosner

- Afterword: Lagging and leading genres of the new economy
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2022.2087722> by
Matthew Hull



We are happy that a number of issues are published open access but if any
reader needs access to articles due to paywalls please be in touch.



All the best,

Mike Prentice (mike.prentice at sheffield.ac.uk) and Ilana Gershon (
ig25 at rice.edu)
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