Don Kalb

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Don Kalb is affiliated with the following schools: Radboud University Nijmegen, University of Bergen, University of California, Berkeley, Central European University, Utrecht University, University of Chicago

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PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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Don Kalb is co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology’s financialization research group, full professor of social anthropology at the University of Bergan, and assistant professor of social sciences and cultural anthropology at Universiteit Utrecht. Considered a Marxist anthropologist, Kalb has specialized in labor history, value, capitalism, class, nationalism, and globalization throughout Europe.

He conducted a case study in the Netherlands in his most prominent work, Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands, 1850-1950. The study provided a relational analysis intersecting class and culture in innovative ways. His other works include Critical Junctions: Anthropology and History Beyond the Cultural Turn and Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class: Working Class Populism and the Return of the Repressed in Neoliberal Europe.

Kalb was selected at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Austria to lead the Social Consequences of Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe program. He was the first editor of the journal Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, and still edits their blog today.

He is currently a principal investigator of Frontlines, an international effort to innovate ethnographic research methods, a partner with Oana Mateescu on a project to examine 3 case studies in Europe.

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According to Wikipedia, Don Kalb is a Dutch anthropologist, full professor of social anthropology at the University of Bergen, and an assistant professor of social sciences and cultural anthropology at Universiteit Utrecht. For many years, Kalb was a professor of sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University.

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Don Kalb's Published Works

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Headlines of nation, subtexts of class : working-class populism and the return of the repressed in neoliberal Europe (2011) (139)
Conversations with a Polish populist: Tracing hidden histories of globalization, class, and dispossession in postsocialism (and beyond) (2009) (114)
Anthropologies of class: power, practice and inequality (2015) (67)
The Ends of Globalization. Bringing Society Back In (2000) (66)
Introduction: class and the new anthropological holism (2015) (59)
Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands 1850–1950 (1999) (53)
Critical junctions : anthropology and history beyond the cultural turn (2006) (51)
Globalization and development: themes and concepts in current research (2004) (45)
From flows to violence (2005) (44)
Thinking about neoliberalism as if the crisis was actually happening (2012) (42)
Eating globally: cultural flows and the spread of ethnic restaurants (2000) (35)
Financialization and the capitalist moment: Marx versus Weber in the anthropology of global systems (2013) (33)
12. Post-Socialist Contradictions: The Social Question in Central and Eastern Europe and the Making of the Illiberal Right (2019) (24)
Afterword : Globalism and postsocialist prospects (2003) (23)
Uses of Local Knowledge (2006) (23)
Upscaling Illiberalism: Class, Contradiction, and the Rise and Rise of the Populist Right in Post-socialist Central Europe (2018) (22)
Editorial: on the cheap (2004) (20)
Historical anthropology and anthropological history : two distinct programs (16)
The Internationalization of Capital and Trends in Income Inequality in Western Societies (2000) (16)
Frameworks of culture and class in historical research (1993) (15)
Global systemic crisis, class and its representations (2015) (13)
Time and Contention in ‘the great globalization debate’ (2004) (12)
Headlines of Nationalism, Subtexts of Class: Poland and Popular Paranoia, 1989-2009 (2009) (12)
Mavericks: Harvey, Graeber, and the reunification of anarchism and Marxism in world anthropology (2014) (10)
Financialised Capitalism Soviet Style? Varieties of State Capture and Crisis* (2010) (9)
The Anthropology of Globalization: Cultural Anthropology Enters the 21st Century:The Anthropology of Globalization: Cultural Anthropology Enters the 21st Century. (2004) (9)
Globalization and Development (2004) (8)
"Worthless poles" and other dispossessions: toward an anthropology of labor in post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe (2014) (8)
Dispossession (1987) (8)
Afterword: after the commons - commoning! (2017) (8)
Regimes of value and worthlessness: how two subaltern stories speak (2017) (6)
Worldwide Mobilisations: Class Struggles and Urban Commoning (2018) (6)
Trotsky over Mauss: Anthropological Theory and the October 1917 Commemoration (2018) (6)
Introductory thoughts on anthropology and urban insurrection (2018) (6)
Through a class darkly, but then face to face: praxis through the lens of class (2015) (6)
Class (in Place) Without Capitalism (in Space)? (2000) (5)
Class, labor, social reproduction: towards a non-self limiting anthropology (2015) (4)
Regimes of value and worthlessness: two stories I know, plus a Marxian reflection (2013) (3)
On Class, the Logic of Solidarity, and the Civilizing Process: Workers, Priests, and Alcohol in Dutch Shoemaking Communities, 1900–1920 (1994) (3)
Afterword: Elias talks to Hayek (and learns from Marx and Foucault); reflections on neoliberalism, postsocialism and personhood (2014) (3)
The New El Dorado in Romania: The State and The World Bank against local development (2006) (3)
The concept of class (2015) (3)
Moral production, class capacities and communal commotion: An illustration from central Brabant shoemaking (c. 1900–20) (1991) (2)
Theory from the East? Double Polarizations versus Democratic Transitions (2015) (2)
The neo‐nationalist ascendency: further thoughts on class, value and the return of the repressed (2021) (2)
Class: the ‘empty sign’of the middle class; class and the urban commons in the 21st century (2014) (2)
Oligarchy and state capture: Soviet style mechanisms in contemporary finance capitalism (2012) (2)
Globalization, Inequality and Social Policy (1996) (2)
Conflictive Domains of Globalization and Development (2004) (2)
Shifting conjunctions: Politics and knowledge in the globalization debate (2004) (2)
We are all the people of the Vega Baja now (2010) (1)
Austerity and ‘the Discipline of Historical Context’ (2018) (1)
Introduction: Conflictive domains of globalization and development (2004) (1)
Upscaling Illiberalism: Class, Contradiction, and the Rise and Rise of the Populist Right in Post-socialist Central Europe (2018) (1)
Afterword: Notes for Contemporary Urban Class Analysis (2018) (1)
Notes for a contemporary urban class analysis (2018) (1)
Aft erword Aft er the c ommons—commoning! (2017) (1)
Editorial: After hybridity (2006) (1)
As provincialized Europe expands (2007) (1)
Challenges to the European state : The deep play of finance, demos and ethnos in the new old Europe (2018) (1)
Introduction: Introductory Thoughts on Anthropology and Urban Insurrection (2018) (1)
Fighting with the greater good (2005) (1)
Frontlines : Class , Value , and Social Transformation in 21 st Century Capitalism (2017) (0)
Economic restructuring and local consequences (1995) (0)
Does Equality Travel? A Note on the Institutional Preconditions of Global Equality (2000) (0)
Anthropologies of Class: References (2015) (0)
Engaging Capitalism: Anthropology and capitalism: Beyond gifts versus market [Edited Feature] (2014) (0)
Making the Eastern Scale (2020) (0)
Two theories of money (2023) (0)
ANTHROPOLOGISTS AT WAR? A response to Bošković in this issue (2022) (0)
Political Economy (2018) (0)
Afterword (2018) (0)
Trotsky over Mauss: Anthropological Theory and the October 1917 Commemoration (2018) (0)
The EU at 60: the Treaty of Rome is a smoke screen (2017) (0)
The ConunDrum of Globalization: Inequality, Marginality and Policy Imperatives in Advanced Welfare States (1997) (0)
TOGETHER , BUT STILL APART : ETHNIC IDENTITY , CLASS , AND FOOTBALL FANDOM IN CLUJ-NAPOCA , ROMANIA (2008) (0)
Capitalism (2018) (0)
Clues for Civil Society and the State Post-Communism1 (0)
Of dispossessions and reclamations Anthropology in the time of crisis (2016) (0)
The Soviet Revenge: How the unrecognized Soviet-style mechanisms of contemporary finance cause social crisis and catastrophe in the West (2012) (0)
Identity politics, globalization and the national state (1999) (0)
Acknowledgements (2018) (0)
OVERNMENTALITY TO LOCAL GOVERNANCE : EXPLAINING DIFFERENCES IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC PRACTICE AMONG R OMA IN R OMANIA (2007) (0)
Political Sociology Meets Anthropology in The Defeat of Solidarity (2007) (0)
Editorial: Danse macabre (2004) (0)
Political Conflict, Cultural Trauma and Social Reconciliation (2006) (0)
RÖSTIGRABEN – MYTH OR REALITY ? CHALLENGES OF MULTICULTURALISM IN SWITZERLAND By Lana Bunjevac (2008) (0)
"History repeats itself": subversive insights of a Polish populist (2014) (0)
The Impact of the European Union ’ s structural policy on the development of civil society in Poland (2007) (0)
ANTHROPOLOGISTS APPROACH THE NEW CAPITALISM (2015) (0)
My multiple, manifold, and endlessly contested 1989s (2010) (0)
Anthropology‘s Public Engagement with Capitalism: Beyond Gifts versus Markets (Panel Organisation) (2013) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Polish floods: clues for civil society and the state post-communism (2001) (0)
Velvet Revolution of 1989 (2013) (0)
Why I will not make it as a "moral anthropologist" (2018) (0)
Karl Marx, alive (2018) (0)
YET ANOTHER COMMISSION OF INQUIRY (2009) (0)
Stones through the Window (2006) (0)

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