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Record Nr.

UNINA9910852101103321

Titolo

Insidious capital : frontlines of value at the end of a global cycle / / edited by Don Kalb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berghahn Books, 2024

ISBN

9781805391579

1805391577

9781805391562

1805391569

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 pages)

Collana

Dislocations Series ; ; v.35

Disciplina

335.4/12

Soggetti

Value

Capitalism

Valeur

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction — Value at the End of the Cycle: On Frontlines and Regimes -- Chapter 1 — Special Economic Zones: The Global Frontlines of Neoliberalism’s Value Regime -- Chapter 2 — On Difference and Devaluation in Contemporary Capitalism: Notes on Exploitation in a Myanmar Squatter Settlement -- Chapter 3 — Carbon as Value: Four Short Stories of Ecological Civilization in China -- Chapter 4 — Enclosing Gurugram: Vernacular Valorization on India’s Urban Frontline -- Chapter 5 — Construction, Labor, and Luxury in Kathmandu’s Post-conflict Tourism Economy -- Chapter 6 — Dispossession as a Manifold: Frontlines of Authoritarian Populist Politics in Turkey -- Chapter 7 — “Scraps from the Bourgeois Kitchen” On the Romanian Frontline of Outsourced Creativity -- Chapter 8 — “As Much Value as Possible” Construction, Universities, Finance, and the “Greater Good” in the North East of England -- Chapter 9 — Labor, Value, and Frontlines in Reading and Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States -- Afterword — Reflections on Value, Objectivi ty, and Death -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"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 off shoring 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"--