Insidious capital frontlines of value at the end of a global cycle

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Trond Mohn Foundation (Bergen), University of Bergen, government of Norway funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Kalb, Don, 1959- editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berghahn Books 2024
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Dislocations Series
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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