Insidious Capital

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