Insidious Capital: Frontlines of Value at the End of a Global Cycle (Dislocations Book 35)

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 offshoring 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. 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. Insidious Capital Contents Illustrations Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Special Economic Zones Chapter 2. On Difference and Devaluation in Contemporary Capitalism Chapter 3. Carbon as Value Chapter 4. Enclosing Gurugram Chapter 5. Construction, Labor, and Luxury in Kathmandu’s Post-conflict Tourism Economy Chapter 6. Dispossession as a Manifold Chapter 7. “Scraps from the Bourgeois Kitchen” Chapter 8. “As Much Value as Possible” Chapter 9. Labor, Value, and Frontlines in Reading and Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States Afterword Index Blank Page