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  • Backlash

    The Global Rise of the Radical Right

    Edited by Don Kalb, Walden Bello ...
    ‘With the far right continuing to consolidate power, Backlash is an essential guide to the different forms that authoritarian populism has taken and the different strategies it has employed ... Required reading not only for scholars but for those on the frontlines of fighting fascism’ John Feffer, author of Right Across the World‘An urgent book [which] shows how the rise of autocracy links to ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Expanding Class

    Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands 1850–1950

    by Don Kalb ...
    Series series Comparative and international working-class history
    Expanding Class is the study and story of industrial class relations in North Brabant, a Catholic province of The Netherlands, over a hundred-year period. In examining the lives of workers in one of Europe’s more idiosyncratic industrial regions, Don Kalb affirms the utility of class analysis while responding to the cultural critics who have encouraged a movement away from this focus in labor ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Anthropologies of Class

    Power, Practice, and Inequality

    Edited by James G. Carrier, Don Kalb ...
    Rising social, political and economic inequality in many countries, and rising protest against it, has seen the restoration of the concept of 'class' to a prominent place in contemporary anthropological debates. A timely intervention in these discussions, this book explores the concept of class and its importance for understanding the key sources of that inequality and of people's attempts to deal ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Worldwide Mobilizations

    Class Struggles and Urban Commoning

    Edited by Don Kalb, Massimiliano Mollona ...
    Series Book 24 - Dislocations
    The past decades have seen significant urban insurrections worldwide, and this volume analyzes some of them from an anthropological perspective; it argues that transformations of urban class relationships must be approached in a way that is both globally informed and deeply embedded in local and popular histories, and contends that every case of urban mobilization should be understood against its ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Value and Worthlessness

    The Rise of the Populist Right and Other Disruptions in the Anthropology of Capitalism

    by Don Kalb ...
    Series Book 38 - Dislocations
    Advocating for an interdisciplinary Marxist anthropology of the present, this book uses historical and global anthropology to engage with history, theory, unevenness, and comparison, while using “global ethnography” and “hidden histories” as the keys to social discovery. Kalb’s anthropology of value and worthlessness lays bare the logics that currently produce right wing, populist, and nationalist ... Read more

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  • Insidious Capital

    Frontlines of Value at the End of a Global Cycle

    Edited by Don Kalb ...
    Series Book 35 - Dislocations
    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 ... Read more

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  • Financialization

    Relational Approaches

    Edited by Chris Hann, Don Kalb ...
    Series Book 6 - Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
    Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Authors explore the ways in which finance inserts itself into relationships of class and kinship, how it adapts to non-Western religious traditions, and how it reconfigures legal and ecological ... Read more

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    Race, Gender, Migration

    Edited by Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Raul A. Fernandez, Vivian Price, David Smith, Linda Trinh Võ ...
    The essays in this collection address issues significant to labor within regional, national and international contexts. Themes of the chapters will focus on managed labor migration; organizing in multi-ethnic and multi-national contexts; global economics and labor; global economics and inequality; gender and labor; racism and globalization; regional trade agreements and labor. ... Read more

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  • World 3.0

    Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It

    by Pankaj Ghemawat ...
    Since the financial crisis of 2008, many of us have had to reexamine our beliefs about markets and globalization. How integrated should economies really be? How much regulation is right?Many people fuse these two dimensions of choice into one, either favoring both globalization and deregulation-or opposing both of them.It doesn’t have to be that way.In World 3.0, award-winning author and economist ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Göran Therborn ...
    What is the world of the 21st century like now that the centrality of the West is no longer given? How were the societies and cultures of today's world together with their interconnections forged, and what is driving human society in our times? In short, what is the state of the world today as we enter the second decade of the 21st century?This is the first book which deals with planetary human ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World

    Edited by Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini ...
    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World offers a broad exploration of the conceptual foundations for comparative analysis of media and politics globally. It takes as its point of departure the widely used framework of Hallin and Mancini's Comparing Media Systems, exploring how the concepts and methods of their analysis do and do not prove useful when applied beyond the original focus of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Anti-Piketty

    Capital for the 21st Century

    Edited by Jean-Philippe Delsol, Nicolas Lecaussin, Emmanuel Martin ...
    Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has enjoyed great success and provides a new theory about wealth and inequality. However, there have been major criticisms of his work. Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century collects key criticisms from 20 specialists—economists, historians, and tax experts—who provide rigorous arguments against Piketty's work while examining the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD