Don Kalb 
Value and Worthlessness [EPUB ebook] 
The Rise of the Populist Right and Other Disruptions in the Anthropology of Capitalism

List of Illustrations

Part I: Foundations

Introduction: Webs of Life versus Webs of Meaning: Or how I Became a Marxist Anthropologist

Chapter 1. No Outside? Then What? For a Dialectical “Value Regime”

Part II: Living Labor, Value, and Worthlessness

Chapter 2. “Worthless Poles” and other Postsocialist Devaluations: Conversations with a Polish Populist
Chapter 3. “It is my history and it is worthless”: Gender and the Making of Philipsism, The Netherlands
Chapter 4. Regimes of Value and Worthlessness: Two Stories and a Marxian Reflection

Part III: The Non-Surprise of the Populist Right

Chapter 5. Theory from the East: Class without Class and the Making of the Illiberal Right in Eastern Europe
Chapter 6. Double Devaluations: The Making of the Populist Right in the Global North

Part IV: Global Middle Classness: Living and Dreaming

Chapter 7. “Scraps from the Bourgeois Kitchen”: In the Romanian Bubble of Outsourced Creativity
Chapter 8. The “Global Middle Class”: A Seductive but Empty Signifier

Part V: Finance and Hegemonic Decline

Chapter 9. Financialization and the Capitalist Moment: Marx versus Weber in the Anthropology of Global System
Chapter 10. Two Theories of Money: A Historical Anthropology of the State-Finance Nexus for Present Purposes

Part VI. Polemics for a Reason

Chapter 11. Trotsky over Mauss: Anthropological Theory and the Centennial of the Russian Revolution
Chapter 12. The Labor Theory of Value and the Value Theory of Labor

Epilogue: Why I Will not Make it as a Moral Anthropologist

Index

Don Kalb is Professor of social anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway, and Academic Director of the GRIP program on global inequality (Ui B/International Science Council, Paris). He is the Founding Editor of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology.