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Insidious Capital
Frontlines of Value at the End of a Global Cycle
Edited by Don Kalb
Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4. license with support from the Trond Mohn Foundation (Bergen license), University of Bergen, Government of Norway.
326 pages, 12 ills., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80539-155-5 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (January 2024)
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Reviews
“Insidious Capital is a stunning work that takes us to the frontlines of global capitalism’s new regimes of value. With sharp-eyed ethnographies, its deep genius shows us that while capital’s singular form of value has gone global, it has insinuated itself into variable new local “hidden abodes” of commodification and dispossession, and has both shaped and usurped the specific cultural values that make life meaningful for the vast and vastly different populations it has “put to work” -- and then often made redundant.” • Don Nonini, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“This is a very interesting book that explores ‘the frontlines of value’ and globalization through several carefully constructed case studies from different parts of the world.” • Lesley Gill, Vanderbilt University
“This is a shining example of the sensitive, nuanced, and path-breaking work going on in Marxist scholarship today, opening new pathways for theoretically informed ethnographic work on global capitalism, anywhere and everywhere. Insidious Capital is exactly the book we need right now.” • Christopher Krupa, University of Toronto
Description
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).
Subject: Political and Economic AnthropologySociologySustainable Development Goals
Insidious Capital Edited by Don Kalb is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from the Trond Mohn Foundation (Bergen license), University of Bergen, Government of Norway.
Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB
OA ISBN: 978-1-80539-157-9
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