Callon and the life of democracy

Introduction Michel Callon is rightly renowned as one of those authors who in recent years have questioned the notion of the economic as a fixed category and have argued that it should be reconceived as a shifting process of ‘economization’ (Caliskan & Callon 2009, 2010) in which certain practices become badged as economic in ways which confirm their existence as part of this sphere and simultaneously redefine what the sphere itself consists of. Such authors have not so much questioned the ex..