Jamie Cross
Biographic Data
| ID | 6010415 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamie Cross |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamie |
| FAMILY NAME | Cross |
| SIGNATURE | CROSS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | BI Norwegian Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3264-0016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Comfort zones
First coined by American indoor climate engineers in the 1920s, the concept of the comfort zone has since gained traction beyond buildings and houses, in domains as varied as psychology, business management and education. This paper provides a genealogy of the term, tracing its roots in classical political economic theory. It situates comfort zones in a world ecology, from the domestic sphere to the farm, from the office to the factory floor. Tod…
The moulds at the end of the corridor
Mould is a generic term for over 100,000 species of multicellular, filamentous fungi. In contrast to recent scholarship celebrating symbiotic human‐fungal relationships, this article examines how moulds expose the darker materialities of multispecies entanglement. Tracing contemporary concerns with mould in UK housing –‐ from the death of toddler Awaab Ishak to the emergence of specialist remediation markets – alongside the history of penicillin'…
Post-Carbon Inclusion
Hot climates in urban South Asia
Although the climate has admittedly always been hot and humid in cities like Karachi, increasingly hotter temperatures are exacerbating the impact of heat on informal, precariously employed outdoor workers such as street vendors, guards and rickshaw drivers, who must negotiate their right and access to shade at the everyday scale. Recalling Mike Davis’ radical, political claim that shade is an inalienable human right, this paper proposes that few…
Scale and modularity in thermal governance
Since 2013, when the first urban Heat Action Plan in India was developed in and for the western city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, there are now more than 30 such plans focused on different cities, regions, and entire states in the country, many following the original template developed in Ahmedabad. This article investigates the temporal and spatial politics of such heat action planning, asking: what is the nature of thermal governance that Heat Action…
Quantifying Time-Varying Forecast Uncertainty and Risk for the Real Price of Oil
We propose a novel and numerically efficient quantification approach to forecast uncertainty of the real price of oil using a combination of probabilistic individual model forecasts. Our combination method extends earlier approaches that have been applied to oil price forecasting, by allowing for sequentially updating of time-varying combination weights, estimation of time-varying forecast biases and facets of miscalibration of individual forecas…
Inflation Expectations and the Pass-Through of Oil Prices
Inflation expectations and the associated pass-through of oil price shocks depend on demand and supply conditions underlying the global oil market. We establish this result using a structural VAR model of the global oil market that jointly identifies transmissions of oil demand and supply shocks through real oil prices to both expected and actual inflation. We demonstrate that economic activity shocks have a significantly longer-lasting effect on…
The role of precautionary and speculative demand in the global market for crude oil
Contemporary structural models of the global market for crude oil jointly specify precautionary and speculative demand shocks as a composite shock, named a storage demand shock. We resolve this identification problem and examine the effects of these distinct shocks, along with conventional demand and supply shocks, on the global price of crude oil. We find that uncertainty driven precautionary demand for crude oil is, on average, the primary driv…
Shelter as Cladding
The solar good
What are the ethical commitments of people who design, build, and sell solar photovoltaic technologies to those living in energy poverty across sub‐Saharan Africa and South Asia? Over the past decade, dramatic falls in the cost of solar photovoltaics have seen our increased capacity to convert sunlight into electricity married to projects of governance, social or moral reform, and expressions of care for distant others. Tracing these projects acr…
Current
The Coming of the Corporate Gift
Corporate gifts - from philanthropic donations to individual reward schemes - attract considerable attention from scholars for the kinds of moral, economic and political logics that motivate them. This article considers the gifts that transnational corporations give to producers and draws from Marilyn Strathern's writings on exchange and personhood in order to reverse dominant analyses. Focused on the gifting of gold coins to industrial workers a…
Mobile work, mobile lives
Stitching identities in a free trade zone
Knowledge, legitimacy and economic practice in informal markets for medicine
Struggles for an alternative globalization
Anthropology at the bottom of the pyramid
This article explores what anthropology has to say about contemporary business strategies for market expansion among poor consumers in Africa and Asia. Focusing on the activities of global consumer goods company Unilever in India, we show how anthropology can provide valuable insights into the hidden work and power relations involved in transforming an everyday commodity like soap into a composite object, what we call a 'social good', that is cap…
Anthropology at the bottom of the pyramid
This article explores what anthropology has to say about contemporary business strategies for market expansion among poor consumers in Africa and Asia. Focusing on the activities of global consumer goods company Unilever in India, we show how anthropology can provide valuable insights into the hidden work and power relations involved in transforming an everyday commodity like soap into a composite object, what we call a 'social good', that is cap…
The solar good
What are the ethical commitments of people who design, build, and sell solar photovoltaic technologies to those living in energy poverty across sub‐Saharan Africa and South Asia? Over the past decade, dramatic falls in the cost of solar photovoltaics have seen our increased capacity to convert sunlight into electricity married to projects of governance, social or moral reform, and expressions of care for distant others. Tracing these projects acr…
The Coming of the Corporate Gift
Corporate gifts - from philanthropic donations to individual reward schemes - attract considerable attention from scholars for the kinds of moral, economic and political logics that motivate them. This article considers the gifts that transnational corporations give to producers and draws from Marilyn Strathern's writings on exchange and personhood in order to reverse dominant analyses. Focused on the gifting of gold coins to industrial workers a…
Hot climates in urban South Asia
Although the climate has admittedly always been hot and humid in cities like Karachi, increasingly hotter temperatures are exacerbating the impact of heat on informal, precariously employed outdoor workers such as street vendors, guards and rickshaw drivers, who must negotiate their right and access to shade at the everyday scale. Recalling Mike Davis’ radical, political claim that shade is an inalienable human right, this paper proposes that few…
Scale and modularity in thermal governance
Since 2013, when the first urban Heat Action Plan in India was developed in and for the western city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, there are now more than 30 such plans focused on different cities, regions, and entire states in the country, many following the original template developed in Ahmedabad. This article investigates the temporal and spatial politics of such heat action planning, asking: what is the nature of thermal governance that Heat Action…
Current
Struggles for an alternative globalization
Struggles for an alternative globalization
Anthropology at the bottom of the pyramid
This article explores what anthropology has to say about contemporary business strategies for market expansion among poor consumers in Africa and Asia. Focusing on the activities of global consumer goods company Unilever in India, we show how anthropology can provide valuable insights into the hidden work and power relations involved in transforming an everyday commodity like soap into a composite object, what we call a 'social good', that is cap…
Knowledge, legitimacy and economic practice in informal markets for medicine
Mobile work, mobile lives
Stitching identities in a free trade zone
The Coming of the Corporate Gift
Corporate gifts - from philanthropic donations to individual reward schemes - attract considerable attention from scholars for the kinds of moral, economic and political logics that motivate them. This article considers the gifts that transnational corporations give to producers and draws from Marilyn Strathern's writings on exchange and personhood in order to reverse dominant analyses. Focused on the gifting of gold coins to industrial workers a…
Current
The solar good
What are the ethical commitments of people who design, build, and sell solar photovoltaic technologies to those living in energy poverty across sub‐Saharan Africa and South Asia? Over the past decade, dramatic falls in the cost of solar photovoltaics have seen our increased capacity to convert sunlight into electricity married to projects of governance, social or moral reform, and expressions of care for distant others. Tracing these projects acr…
Shelter as Cladding
The role of precautionary and speculative demand in the global market for crude oil
Contemporary structural models of the global market for crude oil jointly specify precautionary and speculative demand shocks as a composite shock, named a storage demand shock. We resolve this identification problem and examine the effects of these distinct shocks, along with conventional demand and supply shocks, on the global price of crude oil. We find that uncertainty driven precautionary demand for crude oil is, on average, the primary driv…
Quantifying Time-Varying Forecast Uncertainty and Risk for the Real Price of Oil
We propose a novel and numerically efficient quantification approach to forecast uncertainty of the real price of oil using a combination of probabilistic individual model forecasts. Our combination method extends earlier approaches that have been applied to oil price forecasting, by allowing for sequentially updating of time-varying combination weights, estimation of time-varying forecast biases and facets of miscalibration of individual forecas…
Inflation Expectations and the Pass-Through of Oil Prices
Inflation expectations and the associated pass-through of oil price shocks depend on demand and supply conditions underlying the global oil market. We establish this result using a structural VAR model of the global oil market that jointly identifies transmissions of oil demand and supply shocks through real oil prices to both expected and actual inflation. We demonstrate that economic activity shocks have a significantly longer-lasting effect on…
Post-Carbon Inclusion
Hot climates in urban South Asia
Although the climate has admittedly always been hot and humid in cities like Karachi, increasingly hotter temperatures are exacerbating the impact of heat on informal, precariously employed outdoor workers such as street vendors, guards and rickshaw drivers, who must negotiate their right and access to shade at the everyday scale. Recalling Mike Davis’ radical, political claim that shade is an inalienable human right, this paper proposes that few…
Scale and modularity in thermal governance
Since 2013, when the first urban Heat Action Plan in India was developed in and for the western city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, there are now more than 30 such plans focused on different cities, regions, and entire states in the country, many following the original template developed in Ahmedabad. This article investigates the temporal and spatial politics of such heat action planning, asking: what is the nature of thermal governance that Heat Action…
The moulds at the end of the corridor
Mould is a generic term for over 100,000 species of multicellular, filamentous fungi. In contrast to recent scholarship celebrating symbiotic human‐fungal relationships, this article examines how moulds expose the darker materialities of multispecies entanglement. Tracing contemporary concerns with mould in UK housing –‐ from the death of toddler Awaab Ishak to the emergence of specialist remediation markets – alongside the history of penicillin'…
Comfort zones
First coined by American indoor climate engineers in the 1920s, the concept of the comfort zone has since gained traction beyond buildings and houses, in domains as varied as psychology, business management and education. This paper provides a genealogy of the term, tracing its roots in classical political economic theory. It situates comfort zones in a world ecology, from the domestic sphere to the farm, from the office to the factory floor. Tod…
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