Towards a Reformulation

Board of editorsThe overall aim of this journal was to foster valuable conversations in the new transdisciplinary and emerging field of valuation studies.Valuation Studies has in this way been a successful experiment.The main testimony of this success is the twelve issues with articles, interviews, editorials we have published since 2013.As an editorial collective, we are proud about of what the journal has become.Yet, we also have the sense that we are ready to push the now ongoing conversations to take further steps.We have, until now, taken valuation to denote any social practice where the value or values of something is established, assessed, negotiated, provoked, maintained, constructed and/or contested.Partially thanks to this journal and the many authors, reviewers, editors involved in this collective task, valuation practices are today an established object of inquiry in the social sciences and humanities.Given this, the current question for us is how this journal can continue to further the conversation.We propose a transitioning the journal from focusing on the study of valuation practices to the study of valuation as a problem.Valuation stands as a crucial problem for the social sciences and the humanities today, in more than one way.Understanding the tensions, determinants, contexts and effects of valuation practices appears indeed as a decisive requirement for the understanding of how our world is constructed, transformed or shattered.An interdisciplinary approach is required in order to investigate the technical cultures, the political imaginaries, the historical processes, the methodological problems and the institutional settings that shape the ways in which things are valued, and to identify relevant shifts, controversies and struggles.

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