Performativity, Misfires and Politics

Callon, Michel

doi:10.1080/17530350.2010.494119

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“…Given their procedural dimension, as a discursive practice, sovereign ratings have 'illocutionary' performative effects (Austin, 1962;Callon, 2010). Through their description of budgetary positions, such as 'junk' (below 'BBB-'), these utterances communicate a range of judgments about proper fiscal conduct, which inform the constitution of a politics of limits or the fiscal constraints facing governments.…”

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Credit rating agencies and the sovereign debt crisis: Performing the politics of creditworthiness through risk and uncertainty

Paudyn

2013

Review of International Political Economy

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1As Member States struggle to retain the investment grades necessary to allow them to finance their governmental operations at a reasonable cost, credit rating agencies (CRAs) have been blamed for exacerbating a procyclical bias which only makes this task more difficult. How CRAs contribute to the constitution of the politics of limits underpinning the European sovereign debt crisis is at the core of this article. As a socio-technical device of control, sovereign ratings are an 'illocutionary' statement about budgetary health, which promotes an artificial fiscal normality. Subsequently, these austere politics of creditworthiness have 'perlocutionary' effects, which seek to censure political discretion through normalizing risk techniques aligned with the self-systemic, and thereby selfregulating, logic of Anglo-American versions of capitalism. The ensuing antagonistic relationship between the programmatic/expertise and operational/politics dimensions of fiscal governance leaves Europe vulnerable to crisis and the renegotiation of how the 'political' is established in the economy.New regulatory technical standards (RTS) can exacerbated the performative effects on CRAs, investors and Member States.

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Credit rating agencies and the sovereign debt crisis: Performing the politics of creditworthiness through risk and uncertainty

Paudyn

2013

Review of International Political Economy

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“…Our contribution support Callon's (1998) suggestion that economic performativity results in boundary struggles, producing misfires, overflowings, issues and matters of concern: 'Saying and doing the economy -because all economies are said and done (Çalışkan and Callon 2009) -means entering into the agonistic field where the delimitation-bifurcation between the economy and politics is constantly being debated and played out' (Callon 2010). The matters of concern to which Latour bids us pay attention are those overflowings, the issues that are produced as rival orders of worth -quality of care, scientific knowledge, culture, sustainability, and ethics clash with the values and tools associated with the market.…”

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Unsettling issues: valuing public goods and the production of matters of concern

Roscoe

Townley

2015

Journal of Cultural Economy

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'Unsettling issues: valuing public goods and the production of matters of concern'What are public goods -of any kind -worth? How are they valued, and made valuable?What expertise is involved in their production? Questions over the value of public goods -a sporting championship, the arts, scientific advances or quality of life -figure prominently in our public and political discourse, as politicians and administrators struggle to manage the often competing claims of instrumental, economic reason and intangible, cultural evaluations.We must decide not only what characteristics and 'goods' to value, but how to value them, sometimes in the less than fully-realized knowledge that modes of valuation are performative

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“…This raises the possibility of a gap between theoretical statements (what is said) and the socio-technical agencements that carry it (what is done) (Callon, 2008). However, efforts at performing the economy, in the face of competing attempts and the need to enlist and coordinate the efforts of others, are always liable to fail or misfire (Callon, 2010).…”

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‘Is there a gap in the market, and is there a market in the gap?’ How advertising planning performs markets

Jacobi

Freund

Araújo

2014

Journal of Marketing Management

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This paper explores the performative role of marketing knowledge in advertising planning. It is based on an ethnography within the account planning department of a London advertising agency as it worked closely with a client and a market research agency to develop a new energy/health drink for launch in the UK. The case provides detailed support for the idea that marketing (and other) theories help perform or bring into existence that which they purport to describe. It also shows how such theories are hybridised and streamlined in the iterative battleground of a creative process, framed by the need to create plausible consumption and competitive relations. The main contribution of this paper is to show how the performative power of marketing knowledge is ultimately determined not by its 'truth value', but by its ability to produce compelling stories that stabilize the reflexive relationships between product attributes, consumer profiles and competitive relations.

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Performativity, Misfires and Politics

Cited by 268 publications

References 8 publications

Credit rating agencies and the sovereign debt crisis: Performing the politics of creditworthiness through risk and uncertainty

Credit rating agencies and the sovereign debt crisis: Performing the politics of creditworthiness through risk and uncertainty

Unsettling issues: valuing public goods and the production of matters of concern

‘Is there a gap in the market, and is there a market in the gap?’ How advertising planning performs markets

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