Traditionally social science treated culture as a peripheral issue, but the last twenty years have witnessed a cultural turn throughout the social sciences. Culture is now at the core of debate.

Culture and Economy After the Cultural Turn examines the impact of the cultural turn for the social sciences in relation to the decline of interest in economic aspects of society. It presents a number of responses to the changing relationship between culture and economy, and to the way in which the cultural turn has sought to understand it. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines present differing views oon these matters in relation to issues of political sensibilities and movements, equality and recognition, `cultural management, class, ethnicity and gender, and cultural values.

Introduction - Larry Ray and Andrew Sayer
Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics - Nancy Fraser
Redistribution, Recognition and Participation
Valuing Culture and Economy - Andrew Sayer
Economy, Equality and Recognition - John ONeill
Market Boundaries and the Commodification of Culture - Russell Keat
Reconciling Culture and Economy - Harriet Bradley and Steve Fenton
Ways Forward in the Analysis of Gender and Ethnicity
Capitalisms Cultural Turn - Nigel Thrift
Changing the People - Paul Thompson and Patricia Findlay
Social Engineering in the Contemporary Workplace
Social Differentiation, Transgression and the Politics of Irony - Larry Ray
Performing Politics - Bronislaw Szerszynski
The Dramatics of Environmental Protest
The Culture Did It - Mary Evans
Comments on the 1997 British General Election
New Labour - Stephen Driver and Luke Martell
Culture and Economy