Insidious Capital

Frontlines of Value at the End of a Global Cycle

Don Kalb (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

326 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-155-5 (ISBN)

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With a team of anthropologists and geographers, Insidious Capital explores “value and values” in what may well be the last phase of capitalist globalization. In a global perspective of fast-transforming social spaces that move from East to West, the book explores the struggles around the exploitation and valuation of labor, environmental politics, expansion of the ground rent, new hierarchies, the contradictions of higher education, the offshoring of “immaterial” labor, the illiberal right, and the mobilizations against it. This is a book about the variegated frontlines of value within an uneven, but not random, geography of capitalist expansion.

Don Kalb is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, where he directed the ‘Frontlines of Value’ project. Currently he is Academic Director of GRIP, a research program on global social inequality of the University of Bergen with the International Science Council, Paris. He is Founding Editor of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, Focaalblog, and the Dislocations series (all by Berghahn Books).

Foreword

Don Kalb

Introduction: Value: Regimes and Frontlines at the End of the Cycle

Don Kalb

Chapter 1. Special Economic Zones: The Global Frontlines of Neoliberalism’s Value Regime

Patrick Neveling

Chapter 2. On Difference and Devaluation: Notes on Exploitation in a Myanmar Squatter Settlement

Stephen Campbell

Chapter 3. Carbon as Value: Four Short Stories of Ecological Civilization in China

Charlotte Bruckermann

Chapter 4. Enclosing Gurugram: Vernacular Valorization as India’s Urban Frontline

Tom Cowan

Chapter 5. Construction, Labor, and Luxury in Kathmandu’s Post-Conflict Tourism Economy

Dan Hirslund

Chapter 6. Dispossession as a Manifold: The Value Frontlines of Authoritarian Populist Politics in Turkey

Katharina Bodirsky

Chapter 7. “Scraps from the Bourgeois Kitchen”: on the Romanian Frontline of Outsourced Creativity

Oana Mateescu and Don Kalb

Chapter 8. "As Much Value as Possible”: Construction, Universities, Finance, and the “Greater Good” in the Northeast of England

Sarah Winkler-Reid

Chapter 9. Labor, Value, and Frontlines in Reading and Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States, the Year 2020

Sharryn Kasmir

Afterword: Reflections on Value, Objectivity, and Death

Christopher Krupa

Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Dislocations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-80539-155-0 / 1805391550
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-155-5 / 9781805391555
Zustand	Neuware