Valuation Studies and the Critique of Valuation

denotes here any social practice where the value or values of something are established, assessed, negotiated, provoked, maintained, constructed and/or contested. The question thus in effect asks how the very study of such practices relates to the exercising of critical judgement on these very same practices. This topic is pertinent here and now for a number of reasons. 2. First, it resonates with apparent scholarly preoccupations with matters of concern, critique, care and mattering, not least in relation to constructivist studies (e.g. Latour 2004; Boltanski 2011; Puig de la Bellacasa 2011). Where in these pensive positions would we !nd good support for worthwhile studies of valuation as a social practice? This question hinges on what counts as good and worthwhile research in the !rst place. Or rather, where