José Ossandón
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 184232 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | José Ossandón |
| NOMBRES | José |
| APELLIDO | Ossandón |
| FIRMA | OSSANDÓN J |
| AFILIACIONES | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2927-1878 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 115 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Do ethnographers make markets? Cultural economy after collaboration
This essay introduces the special issue ‘Do ethnographers make markets?’ The contributions compiled here pose a new kind of problem for their respective authors. In their usual research, they study other practitioners (economists, marketeers, engineers, regulators, tax officials), along with their forms of knowledge, devices, and the effect these have on the economic situations in which they operate. By contrast, for the cases reported in this is…
Symposium on ‘Do ethnographers make markets?’
This special issue has been a truly collective inquiry. It began with a simple intuition: the fact that social researchers, who normally study how practitioners make markets, are invited to collaborate in market interventions is something worth thinking about. Those who contributed with their articles generously agreed to work with this premise (Björklund Larsen Citation2023; Geiger and Gross Citation2022; Onto and Fernandes Citation2025; Ossandó…
Keith Hart (1943–2025) remembered by José Ossandón
This text is in memory of anthropologist Keith Hart (1943–2025). It has two parts: a more personal introduction and an extract from an interview conducted in 2008, which provides a glimpse of what makes Hart's work distinctive and relevant for scholars in the JCE community.
Making Good Economies with Bad Economic Instruments
This article examines how notions of the good are entangled with instruments of valuation in the case of wind power in Denmark. Analytically, we develop what we tentatively call a comparative actantial approach to the study of policy instruments. Empirically, we inspect three support schemes introduced between 1979 and 1999 by the Danish state to foster the development of wind power. The comparative inspection shows wind power's notable shifts in…
Local economic planning as a problem for market studies. Notes after Asdal & Huse’s Nature-made economy
The essay uses Kristin Asdal and Tone Huse’s book Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean to reflect on how we think the analytical and empirical approach of the field we know as market studies
The new new economic sociology - the market intervention test
This paper explores what happens when the ‘new new economic sociology’ – the figure created with Callon’s importation of ANT to the study of markets – intervenes in market interventions. Empirically, the paper examines a situation in which a researcher moves out of her habitual position of studying economists and engineers doing markets, to instead take part in an effort of engineering a market. The paper has two contributions. One is analytical.…
Market Studies
Market studies is a newly emerging field dedicated to understanding the origins, core concepts, theories and methods currently being used and developed to examine markets in the making. Providing a unique overview that introduces, positions and develops this highly fertile area of research, Market Studies is the first book to consolidate its themes, tools and methods in a single, comprehensive volume. Topics covered include: market organization a…
Valuation as a Semiotic, Narrative, and Dramaturgical Problem
Value is, at least in part, about signs.But then the study of valuation as a problem requires confronting the multifarious debates on the meaning of signification.Several paths have been opened already, with many studies of valuation drawing from various traditions in semiotics, resulting in different understandings of what value assign is and does.And a similar point can be made about narration.Valuation is a narrative accomplishment and therefo…
Islands of Qualities in an Ocean of Quantification”
In this interview, Wendy Espeland and Michael Sauder both reflect on their work on rankings, reactivity and commensuration, and think about the implication their sociological work could have on the practices of those dealing with rankings and their reactive effects
(University) Management after Valuation Studies
This text introduces this issues’ symposium: “A correspondence on (University) Management after Valuation Studies”. The text has two parts. The first introduces the dilemma, the question of whether valuation studies could, besides studying valuation in practice, inform better practices of valuation, and the method of the correspondence, to use situations in which researchers of valuation are also practitioners, namely, the management of quality i…
Financial oikonomization
This article introduces a new social scientific understanding of the relationship between households and finance. We call it financial oikonomization. Financial oikonomization signals a specific research problem and a distinctive analytical approach to this problem. The problem is how households are financially administered and governed. The approach is pragmatist and descriptive. It is oriented to the how, to the study of the problems and practi…
Hirschman'sExit, Voice, and Loyaltyand contemporary economic sociology
This essay takes the 50th anniversary of Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States as an opportunity to revisit this important book. It asks how Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, a book that came out five decades ago as a contribution to development economics, connects to recent debates in economic sociology and how this can help us think about what economic sociology does not attempt to do anymo…
The Time of Money
The organization of markets for collective concerns and their failures
This special issue introduces a new object of analysis: the organization of markets for collective concerns and their failures. This paper discusses how the study of this new object challenges key assumptions in recent social studies of markets. We focus on three issues, each related to the keywords of the title: organization, market, and concern. The first problem is the fluctuating conceptual value of the market-organization pair in the forms o…
Problematizing markets
Neoliberalism is usually associated with pro-market values. This paper argues that more attention should be paid to the specific forms of market criticisms that unfold in neoliberal settings. We adapt Foucault's and Callon's notion of problematization to study recent policy reforms in Chile. The analysis shows a transition from a set of policies justified in terms of the virtues of the market to policy interventions based on a comparison between …
Accounting in the Margin
Contabilidad en los márgenes
Los estudios sociales sobre las finanzas domésticas pueden clasificarse en dos tipos: investigaciones enfocadas al estudio de "dispositivos de mercado" (tales como scorings y tarjetas de crédito) utilizados por compañías financieras, e investigaciones que analizan las nuevas prácticas y modos de "cálculo cotidiano" desarrollados por los usuarios de los servicios financieros alrededor del mundo. Este artículo es parte de un proyecto mayor que busc…
Testing the provoked economy
Enmarcando las redes de observaciones en la reciente sociología de las finanzas
This brief article contextualizes in the recent economic sociology the ‘observation turn' suggested by Elena Esposito and David Stark. Therefore, it can be used in at least two ways, to facilitate the reading of the main articles included in the current issue and to point at connections and questions that have not yet indicated in this discussion
Reassembling and Cutting the Social with Health Insurance
By rescuing an obscure and almost forgotten parliamentary controversy in Chile, this article shows how private property and solidarity cohabit in health insurance. To do so, it follows both pragmatist sociology, where controversies are seen as situations in which social formations are questioned and reconfigured, and recent economic sociology, studying how marketisation might help in assembling and not only destroying social bonds. Simultaneously…
Sowing consumers in the garden of mass retailing in Chile
It is known that some key elements of modern consumer credit were originally developed in department stores. However, almost no attention has been given to new developments in this area. This paper studies the case of retail credit in Chile. Special attention is given to a particular technique known as “to sow” (or issuing small loans to risky consumers that are made to grow by carefully following and classifying purchase and debt behaviour), who…
Para una etnografía del silencio y del logro de estar presente ante el otro. Una entrevista con Clara Han
En 2012, University of California Press publicó Life in Debt. Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile, escrito por Clara Han.1 Life in Debt es un libro de antropología en el sentido más tradicional. Es el resultado de años de etnografía llevada a cabo en varios hogares de la población La Pincoya, en el norte de Santiago y, más que un corte específico -ya sea en lo económico, lo moral, lo religioso, etc.-, el libro describe pacientemente el…
Cómo se hace la sociología cultural
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Performing Cultural Sociology
The organization of markets for collective concerns and their failures
This special issue introduces a new object of analysis: the organization of markets for collective concerns and their failures. This paper discusses how the study of this new object challenges key assumptions in recent social studies of markets. We focus on three issues, each related to the keywords of the title: organization, market, and concern. The first problem is the fluctuating conceptual value of the market-organization pair in the forms o…
Sowing consumers in the garden of mass retailing in Chile
It is known that some key elements of modern consumer credit were originally developed in department stores. However, almost no attention has been given to new developments in this area. This paper studies the case of retail credit in Chile. Special attention is given to a particular technique known as “to sow” (or issuing small loans to risky consumers that are made to grow by carefully following and classifying purchase and debt behaviour), who…
Financial oikonomization
This article introduces a new social scientific understanding of the relationship between households and finance. We call it financial oikonomization. Financial oikonomization signals a specific research problem and a distinctive analytical approach to this problem. The problem is how households are financially administered and governed. The approach is pragmatist and descriptive. It is oriented to the how, to the study of the problems and practi…
Problematizing markets
Neoliberalism is usually associated with pro-market values. This paper argues that more attention should be paid to the specific forms of market criticisms that unfold in neoliberal settings. We adapt Foucault's and Callon's notion of problematization to study recent policy reforms in Chile. The analysis shows a transition from a set of policies justified in terms of the virtues of the market to policy interventions based on a comparison between …
Reassembling and Cutting the Social with Health Insurance
By rescuing an obscure and almost forgotten parliamentary controversy in Chile, this article shows how private property and solidarity cohabit in health insurance. To do so, it follows both pragmatist sociology, where controversies are seen as situations in which social formations are questioned and reconfigured, and recent economic sociology, studying how marketisation might help in assembling and not only destroying social bonds. Simultaneously…
Performing Cultural Sociology
Contabilidad en los márgenes
Los estudios sociales sobre las finanzas domésticas pueden clasificarse en dos tipos: investigaciones enfocadas al estudio de "dispositivos de mercado" (tales como scorings y tarjetas de crédito) utilizados por compañías financieras, e investigaciones que analizan las nuevas prácticas y modos de "cálculo cotidiano" desarrollados por los usuarios de los servicios financieros alrededor del mundo. Este artículo es parte de un proyecto mayor que busc…
Local economic planning as a problem for market studies. Notes after Asdal & Huse’s Nature-made economy
The essay uses Kristin Asdal and Tone Huse’s book Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean to reflect on how we think the analytical and empirical approach of the field we know as market studies
The new new economic sociology - the market intervention test
This paper explores what happens when the ‘new new economic sociology’ – the figure created with Callon’s importation of ANT to the study of markets – intervenes in market interventions. Empirically, the paper examines a situation in which a researcher moves out of her habitual position of studying economists and engineers doing markets, to instead take part in an effort of engineering a market. The paper has two contributions. One is analytical.…
Testing the provoked economy
Para una etnografía del silencio y del logro de estar presente ante el otro. Una entrevista con Clara Han
En 2012, University of California Press publicó Life in Debt. Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile, escrito por Clara Han.1 Life in Debt es un libro de antropología en el sentido más tradicional. Es el resultado de años de etnografía llevada a cabo en varios hogares de la población La Pincoya, en el norte de Santiago y, más que un corte específico -ya sea en lo económico, lo moral, lo religioso, etc.-, el libro describe pacientemente el…
Performing Cultural Sociology
Cómo se hace la sociología cultural
Una revista científica, con revisión por pares, que publica investigación empírica y contribuciones teóricas en sociología, antropología, sociodemografía, y disciplinas afines. Nuestra misión es presentar los resultados de la investigación de la más alta calidad, con énfasis en América Latina, pero con proyección y alcance global
Para una etnografía del silencio y del logro de estar presente ante el otro. Una entrevista con Clara Han
En 2012, University of California Press publicó Life in Debt. Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile, escrito por Clara Han.1 Life in Debt es un libro de antropología en el sentido más tradicional. Es el resultado de años de etnografía llevada a cabo en varios hogares de la población La Pincoya, en el norte de Santiago y, más que un corte específico -ya sea en lo económico, lo moral, lo religioso, etc.-, el libro describe pacientemente el…
Enmarcando las redes de observaciones en la reciente sociología de las finanzas
This brief article contextualizes in the recent economic sociology the ‘observation turn' suggested by Elena Esposito and David Stark. Therefore, it can be used in at least two ways, to facilitate the reading of the main articles included in the current issue and to point at connections and questions that have not yet indicated in this discussion
Reassembling and Cutting the Social with Health Insurance
By rescuing an obscure and almost forgotten parliamentary controversy in Chile, this article shows how private property and solidarity cohabit in health insurance. To do so, it follows both pragmatist sociology, where controversies are seen as situations in which social formations are questioned and reconfigured, and recent economic sociology, studying how marketisation might help in assembling and not only destroying social bonds. Simultaneously…
Sowing consumers in the garden of mass retailing in Chile
It is known that some key elements of modern consumer credit were originally developed in department stores. However, almost no attention has been given to new developments in this area. This paper studies the case of retail credit in Chile. Special attention is given to a particular technique known as “to sow” (or issuing small loans to risky consumers that are made to grow by carefully following and classifying purchase and debt behaviour), who…
Testing the provoked economy
Contabilidad en los márgenes
Los estudios sociales sobre las finanzas domésticas pueden clasificarse en dos tipos: investigaciones enfocadas al estudio de "dispositivos de mercado" (tales como scorings y tarjetas de crédito) utilizados por compañías financieras, e investigaciones que analizan las nuevas prácticas y modos de "cálculo cotidiano" desarrollados por los usuarios de los servicios financieros alrededor del mundo. Este artículo es parte de un proyecto mayor que busc…
Accounting in the Margin
The organization of markets for collective concerns and their failures
This special issue introduces a new object of analysis: the organization of markets for collective concerns and their failures. This paper discusses how the study of this new object challenges key assumptions in recent social studies of markets. We focus on three issues, each related to the keywords of the title: organization, market, and concern. The first problem is the fluctuating conceptual value of the market-organization pair in the forms o…
Problematizing markets
Neoliberalism is usually associated with pro-market values. This paper argues that more attention should be paid to the specific forms of market criticisms that unfold in neoliberal settings. We adapt Foucault's and Callon's notion of problematization to study recent policy reforms in Chile. The analysis shows a transition from a set of policies justified in terms of the virtues of the market to policy interventions based on a comparison between …
The Time of Money
Hirschman'sExit, Voice, and Loyaltyand contemporary economic sociology
This essay takes the 50th anniversary of Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States as an opportunity to revisit this important book. It asks how Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, a book that came out five decades ago as a contribution to development economics, connects to recent debates in economic sociology and how this can help us think about what economic sociology does not attempt to do anymo…
Islands of Qualities in an Ocean of Quantification”
In this interview, Wendy Espeland and Michael Sauder both reflect on their work on rankings, reactivity and commensuration, and think about the implication their sociological work could have on the practices of those dealing with rankings and their reactive effects
(University) Management after Valuation Studies
This text introduces this issues’ symposium: “A correspondence on (University) Management after Valuation Studies”. The text has two parts. The first introduces the dilemma, the question of whether valuation studies could, besides studying valuation in practice, inform better practices of valuation, and the method of the correspondence, to use situations in which researchers of valuation are also practitioners, namely, the management of quality i…
Financial oikonomization
This article introduces a new social scientific understanding of the relationship between households and finance. We call it financial oikonomization. Financial oikonomization signals a specific research problem and a distinctive analytical approach to this problem. The problem is how households are financially administered and governed. The approach is pragmatist and descriptive. It is oriented to the how, to the study of the problems and practi…
Valuation as a Semiotic, Narrative, and Dramaturgical Problem
Value is, at least in part, about signs.But then the study of valuation as a problem requires confronting the multifarious debates on the meaning of signification.Several paths have been opened already, with many studies of valuation drawing from various traditions in semiotics, resulting in different understandings of what value assign is and does.And a similar point can be made about narration.Valuation is a narrative accomplishment and therefo…
Market Studies
Market studies is a newly emerging field dedicated to understanding the origins, core concepts, theories and methods currently being used and developed to examine markets in the making. Providing a unique overview that introduces, positions and develops this highly fertile area of research, Market Studies is the first book to consolidate its themes, tools and methods in a single, comprehensive volume. Topics covered include: market organization a…
Making Good Economies with Bad Economic Instruments
This article examines how notions of the good are entangled with instruments of valuation in the case of wind power in Denmark. Analytically, we develop what we tentatively call a comparative actantial approach to the study of policy instruments. Empirically, we inspect three support schemes introduced between 1979 and 1999 by the Danish state to foster the development of wind power. The comparative inspection shows wind power's notable shifts in…
Local economic planning as a problem for market studies. Notes after Asdal & Huse’s Nature-made economy
The essay uses Kristin Asdal and Tone Huse’s book Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean to reflect on how we think the analytical and empirical approach of the field we know as market studies
The new new economic sociology - the market intervention test
This paper explores what happens when the ‘new new economic sociology’ – the figure created with Callon’s importation of ANT to the study of markets – intervenes in market interventions. Empirically, the paper examines a situation in which a researcher moves out of her habitual position of studying economists and engineers doing markets, to instead take part in an effort of engineering a market. The paper has two contributions. One is analytical.…
Do ethnographers make markets? Cultural economy after collaboration
This essay introduces the special issue ‘Do ethnographers make markets?’ The contributions compiled here pose a new kind of problem for their respective authors. In their usual research, they study other practitioners (economists, marketeers, engineers, regulators, tax officials), along with their forms of knowledge, devices, and the effect these have on the economic situations in which they operate. By contrast, for the cases reported in this is…
Symposium on ‘Do ethnographers make markets?’
This special issue has been a truly collective inquiry. It began with a simple intuition: the fact that social researchers, who normally study how practitioners make markets, are invited to collaborate in market interventions is something worth thinking about. Those who contributed with their articles generously agreed to work with this premise (Björklund Larsen Citation2023; Geiger and Gross Citation2022; Onto and Fernandes Citation2025; Ossandó…
Keith Hart (1943–2025) remembered by José Ossandón
This text is in memory of anthropologist Keith Hart (1943–2025). It has two parts: a more personal introduction and an extract from an interview conducted in 2008, which provides a glimpse of what makes Hart's work distinctive and relevant for scholars in the JCE community.
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