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Abstract

This special issue has been a truly collective inquiry. It began with a simple intuition: the fact that social researchers, who normally study how practitioners make markets, are invited to collaborate in market interventions is something worth thinking about. Those who contributed with their articles generously agreed to work with this premise (Björklund Larsen Citation2023; Geiger and Gross Citation2022; Onto and Fernandes Citation2025; Ossandón and Pallesen Citation2025; Våland, Pallesen, and Møller Citation2024). While in their work, they usually report on what they find about those they study – the practices, instruments, and issues of the practitioners they investigate – and reflect on how these findings connect and challenge ongoing academic conversations – in anthropology, sociology, market studies, marketing, etc. – here they wrote on their own experiences as collaborators in market interventions. As we all realized, this was more difficult than how it first seemed. Not only did contributors have to write new papers for the issue, but they also had to conceptualize a type of problem that was new to them.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2026 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > HG Finance H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Departments:	Bayes Business School Bayes Business School > Faculty of Management
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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