Climate crisis meets capital in Cultural Economy in the Kitchen: Professor Philip Roscoe and Dr Addie McGowan explore what happens when climate change collides with the world of finance. They speak with Dr Stine Engen and Professor Kristin Asdal about how climate issues are transformed into calculable financial risks through everyday tools, documents, and risk‑work in the financial sector. The conversation then turns to Dr Justin Leifso, whose work on the carbon-tax backlash in Alberta uncovers the emotional undercurrents of neoliberalism, resentment, and anti-elitism. Together, the discussions offer a vivid portrait of finance’s entanglements with planetary futures. The academic journal podcast from the Journal of Cultural Economy editorial collective.

In this episode of Cultural Economy in the Kitchen, hosts Dr Addie McGowan and Professor Philip Roscoe explore the emerging world of digital food. Joined by Dr Tanja Schneider and Dr Jeremy Brice, editors of a JCE special issue on 'digital eating', they unpack how apps, platforms and data are reshaping what eating means as a cultural and social practice. From digital veganism to food safety, expertise, and the tension between care and choice, the conversation reveals how everyday food habits are shaped by digital infrastructures and what the digital becomes when it gets messy with food.Together, the guests consider surprises, tensions and the future of eating in a platformised world. The academic journal podcast from the Journal of Cultural Economy editorial collective.

In this episode of Cultural Economy in the Kitchen, the podcast from the Journal of Cultural Economy, hosts Dr. Addie McGowan and Professor Philip Roscoe explore the fascinating world of crypto imaginaries—how cryptocurrencies embody - quite literally, encode - cultural, political, and economic visions of the future. Joining them are Dr. Lana Swartz, Dr. Andreu Belsunces, and Dr. Kobe De Keere, who unpack the neoliberal roots of crypto, its technical design principles, its role as a ‘social and cultural shapeshifter’, and the promises broken along the way’. From anarchist beginnings to techno-utopian dreams and Russia’s crisis-driven adoption, this conversation reveals how crypto is more than money. Is it a financial revolution, a neoliberal fantasy made material, or just a way out? Tune in to hear more!