In her groundbreaking scholarship on intimacy and economy, Viviana Zelizer coined the
concept of relational work, or efforts in matching social relations with economic transactions …

In this provocative, consequential book, Couldry and Mejias theorize the dynamics of
change in contemporary capitalism as grounded in a new form of data colonialism. They …

Retrofitting the UK's housing stock is essential if the UK is to meet its climate commitments.
Wider research has addressed how weaknesses in the drafting and implementation of …

The informal nature of creative work is routinely acknowledged in the studies of creative
labour. However, informality of creative work has been so far treated dualistically: firstly, as …

About half of US employers consider personal credit history when hiring, a practice that
connects individuals' prospects for employment to their financial pasts. Yet little is known …

Women, and particularly poor women, have become essential cogs in the wheel of
financialized capitalism. Globally, women are responsible for managing household debt …

This article proposes a novel theory, based on relational paradoxes, to explain how
consumers enable or disable their relationships with brands over time. Analysis of data from …

Although a great deal of literature has looked at how individuals respond to stigma, far less
has been written about how professional groups address challenges to their self-perception …

In a recent review of research on the role of social relations in shaping energy demand,
authors documented increasing interest in relational approaches to energy [1]. Relational …

This article builds the argument that Bourdieu's dispositional theory of practice can help
integrate the sociological tradition with three prominent strands of behavioral economics …