# Don Kalb > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Don_Kalb > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Don_Kalb.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Kalb > Source revision: 1348771078 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Dutch anthropologist}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = | name = Don Kalb | image = File:Don Kalb at Butuceni village, May 2014.jpg | alt = | caption = Kalb in Butuceni Village, [Orhei District](/source/Orhei_District), [Republic of Moldova](/source/Republic_of_Moldova), May 2014 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|10|15}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | region = | period = | occupation = [anthropologist](/source/anthropologist), [scholar](/source/scholar) | title = | boards = | known_for = | spouse = | children = | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | era = | discipline = [Anthropologist](/source/Anthropologist) | sub_discipline = [Social anthropology](/source/Social_anthropology), [Political economy](/source/Political_economy) | movement = | religion = | denomination = | education = | alma_mater = [Universiteit Utrecht](/source/Universiteit_Utrecht) ([Ph.D.](/source/Ph.D.) 1995)
[Catholic University of Nijmegen](/source/Catholic_University_of_Nijmegen) ([M.A.](/source/Master_of_Arts) 1988) | thesis_title = Expanding class: power and everyday politics in industrial communities, North Brabant illustrations, 1850-1950{{cite thesis |last=Kalb |first=Donatus Pius |date=1995 |title=Expanding class: power and everyday politics in industrial communities, North-Brabant illustrations, 1850-1950 |type=Ph.D. |publisher=Proefschrift Universiteit Utrecht |oclc=69035879 }} | thesis_url = | thesis_year = 1995 | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | main_interests = | workplaces = [Central European University](/source/Central_European_University), [Universiteit Utrecht](/source/Universiteit_Utrecht), [University of Bergen](/source/University_of_Bergen) | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | website = | footnotes = }} {{Economic anthropology}} '''Don Kalb''' (born 15 October 1959) is a [Dutch](/source/Dutch_people) anthropologist, full professor of [social anthropology](/source/social_anthropology) at the [University of Bergen](/source/University_of_Bergen), and an assistant professor of [social sciences](/source/social_sciences) and [cultural anthropology](/source/cultural_anthropology) at [Universiteit Utrecht](/source/Universiteit_Utrecht).{{cite web |url=http://www.uib.no/en/news/102926/identifying-new-class-inequalities |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161204045926/http://www.uib.no/en/news/102926/identifying-new-class-inequalities |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 4, 2016 |title=Research in Front - Identifying new class inequalities |last=Andreassen |first=Kim E. |date=December 1, 2016 |website=University of Bergen - News |publisher=[University of Bergen](/source/University_of_Bergen) |access-date=December 5, 2016 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.uu.nl/staff/DPKalb|title=Universiteit Utrecht Staff Social and Behavioural Sciences Faculty Page|access-date=April 17, 2016}} For many years, Kalb was a professor of [sociology](/source/sociology) and social anthropology at the [Central European University](/source/Central_European_University).{{cite web|url=http://archive.ceu.hu/profiles/faculty/don_kalb|title=Central European University: Academic Profile of Don Kalb|access-date=April 17, 2016}} ==Biography== ===Early life and education=== Kalb grew up in the municipality of [Eindhoven](/source/Eindhoven). Born into a family of cigar and textile producers, the significant development Eindhoven experienced in the 1960s, catalyzed by the growth of the [Phillips](/source/Philips) Corporation headquartered in the city, influenced Kalb to take up anthropology as a method of investigating what he describes as "the complexity, unevenness, and inequality" latent in the city's expansion. Kalb completed his [MA](/source/Master's_degree) in [cultural anthropology](/source/cultural_anthropology) at the [Catholic University of Nijmegen](/source/Catholic_University_of_Nijmegen) in 1988 before finishing his [PhD](/source/PhD) in social sciences at the [Universiteit Utrecht](/source/Universiteit_Utrecht) in 1995. ==Career== In addition to ongoing his teaching and research duties, Kalb has held numerous visiting professorships and research directorships across Europe and in the United States. In 1999, Kalb was a director of the Social Consequences of Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe program at the [Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen](/source/Institut_f%C3%BCr_die_Wissenschaften_vom_Menschen) in [Vienna, Austria](/source/Vienna%2C_Austria).{{cite web|url=https://religion.ceu.edu/events/2017-03-23/prof-don-kalb-state-collapse-fragmentation-and-resource-bases-anthropology |title=Prof Don Kalb: State Collapse, Fragmentation and 'Resource Bases' in Anthropology |access-date=November 11, 2017}} In 2015, Kalb was a distinguished visiting professor at [the Graduate Center, CUNY](/source/the_Graduate_Center%2C_CUNY) in [New York City](/source/New_York_City) as a part of the university's Advanced Research Collaborative initiative.{{cite web|url=http://pcp.gc.cuny.edu/events/113-116-1113-1120-into-the-contradiction-and-other-maxims-of-anthropological-political-economy/ |title=Into the contradiction – And other maxims of Anthropological Political Economy |website=Center for Place Culture and Politics |date=17 October 2017 |publisher=The Graduate Center, CUNY |access-date=November 11, 2017}} Presently, alongside [Chris Hann](/source/Chris_Hann), Kalb directs the financialization research group at the [Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology](/source/Max_Planck_Institute_for_Social_Anthropology), [Halle, Germany](/source/Halle_(Saale)).{{cite web|url=http://www.eth.mpg.de/4081417/financialisation |title=Financialisation |website= Research Department 'Resilience and Transformation in Eurasia' |publisher=Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |access-date=November 11, 2017}} ==Work== Kalb's work has addressed numerous topics including [globalization](/source/globalization), [nationalism](/source/nationalism), [labor history](/source/Labor_history_(discipline)), and [class](/source/social).{{cite web|url=http://socialsciences.leiden.edu/anthropology/research/seminars/20141215-15-december-2014-don-kalb-caos.html|title=Universiteit Leiden - Seminar by Don Kalb "Neo-nationalism and the return of class as trauma: East and West European"|access-date=April 17, 2016}} While he is known as a Marxist anthropologist, Kalb's scholarship has often utilized historical evidence in addition to or in lieu of fieldwork, leading to him having been described by [historian](/source/historian) Michael Hanagan as "an anthropologist, equally at home with historical methods and debates".{{cite journal |last=Hanagan |first=Michael |date=1999 |title=Reviewed Work: Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, the Netherlands, 1850-1950 by Don Kalb |jstor=3789484 |journal=Journal of Social History |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages= 217–219 |doi=10.1353/jsh.1999.0022 |s2cid=142772931 }} His empirical work has been mainly on economic transformations, class, and popular and political culture in Europe, in particular the Netherlands and Central and Eastern Europe. ===''Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands, 1850–1950''=== In ''Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands, 1850–1950'', Kalb examines 20th century social and economic developments in the [Brabant](/source/North_Brabant) region of [the Netherlands](/source/the_Netherlands) through a [case study](/source/case_study) of the region's predominately [Catholic](/source/Catholic) working-class families. Following [E.P. Thompson](/source/E.P._Thompson), Kalb develops what he describes as a relational approach to class that attempts to explain worker quiescence through an analysis of the [Brabant](/source/North_Brabant) region's cultural and social circumstances as well as productive relations. [Charles Tilly](/source/Charles_Tilly) argues that the brand of relational analysis proposed in ''Expanding Class'' "incorporates some coercion and pays considerable attention to culture, but resolutely rejects both functional and competitive accounts of inequality. Kalb centers his explanation on continuously negotiated social relations. His investigation thereby provides a promising model for further anthropological work".{{cite journal |last=Tilly |first=Charles |date=2001 |title=Relational origins of inequality |journal=Anthropological Theory |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages= 355–372 |doi=10.1177/14634990122228773 |s2cid=13895215 }} ===Focaal=== {{main|Focaal}} Kalb is the founding editor of anthropology journal [Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology](/source/Focaal), as well as the current FocaalBlog editor.{{cite web|url=http://www.focaalblog.com/about-us/|title=Focaal Blog - About Us|access-date=April 17, 2016}} Focaal focuses primarily on intersecting anthropological and historical debates examining local case studies within a global context. According to the journal's website, Focaal advocates for "an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision".{{cite web|url=http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/focaal|title=Focaal - Aims & Scope|access-date=April 19, 2016}} ==Bibliography== {{Library resources box|by=yes|viaf=116962316}} ===Books=== *{{Cite book |last=Kalb |first=Don |title=Value and Worthlessness: The Rise of the Populist Right and Other Disruptions in the Anthropology of Capitalism |publisher=Berghahn Books |year=2025 |isbn=978-1-80539-822-6 |location=New York, Oxford |language=en |doi=10.3167/9781805398226 |author-mask=0}} *with {{Cite book |last=Kalb |first=Don |title=Financialization: Relational Approaches |last2=Hann |first2=Chris |publisher=Berghahn Books |year=2020 |isbn=978-1789207514 |location=New York, Oxford |doi=10.3167/9781789207514 |author-mask=0}} *{{cite book |last=Kalb |first=Don |date=1998 |title=Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities; The Netherlands 1850-1950 |location=Durham |publisher=Duke University Press |series=Comparative and International Working-Class History |isbn=978-0-8223-2022-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/expandingclasspo0000kalb |author-mask=0}} ===Edited volumes=== *{{Cite book |title=Insidious Capital: Frontlines of Value at the End of a Global Cycle |publisher=Berghahn |year=2024 |isbn=978-1-80539-155-5 |editor-last=Kalb |editor-first=Don |location=New York, Oxford |language=en |doi=10.3167/9781805391555}} *{{Cite book |title=Worldwide Mobilizations: Class Struggles and Urban Commoning |publisher=Berghahn Books |year=2018 |isbn=978-1-78533-906-6 |editor-last=Kalb |editor-first=Don |location=New York, Oxford |doi=10.3167/9781785339066 |editor-last2=Mollona |editor-first2=Massimiliano}} *{{cite book |title=Anthropologies of Class: Power, Practice, and Inequality |year=2015 |editor-last=Carrier |editor-first=James G. |editor2-last=Kalb |editor2-first=Don |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-1107087415}} *with {{cite book |title=Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class: Working-class Populism and the Return of the Repressed in Neoliberal Europe |year=2011 |editor-last=Kalb |editor-first=Don |editor-mask=0 |editor2-last=Halmai |editor2-first=Gábor |series=EASA Series |volume=15 |publisher=Berghahn Books |location=Oxford |doi=10.3167/9780857452030 |isbn=978-0857452030}} *{{cite book | title =Critical Junctions: Anthropology and History beyond the Cultural Turn | year =2005 |editor-last= Kalb |editor-first= Don |editor2-last= Tak |editor2-first= Herman | publisher = Berghan Books | location =Oxford | isbn =978-1845450298|doi=10.3167/9781845450083}} *{{cite book | title =Globalization and Development: Themes and Concepts in Current Research | url =https://archive.org/details/springer_10.1007-1-4020-2475-4 | year =2004 |editor-last= Kalb |editor-first= Don |editor2-last= Pansters |editor2-first= Wil |editor3-last= Siebers |editor3-first= Hans | publisher = Kluwer Academic Publishers | location =Dordrecht | isbn =978-1402024740}} *{{cite book | title =The Ends of Globalization: Bringing Society Back In | year =2000 |editor-last= Kalb |editor-first= Don |editor2-last= van der Land |editor2-first= Marco |editor3-last= Staring |editor3-first= Richard |editor4-last= Van Steenbergen |editor4-first= Bart |editor5-last= Wilterdink |editor5-first= Nico | publisher = Rowman & Littlefield | location =Lanham | isbn =978-0847698851}} ===Selected articles=== *{{cite journal | last = Kalb | first = Don | title = Financialization and the capitalist moment: Marx versus Weber in the anthropology of global systems | journal = American Ethnologist | volume = 40 | issue = 2 | pages = 258–266 | date = 2013 | doi = 10.1111/amet.12018}} *{{cite journal | last = Kalb | first = Don | title = Thinking about neoliberalism as if the crisis was actually happening | journal = Social Anthropology | volume = 20 | issue = 3 | pages = 318–330 | date = 2012 | doi = 10.1111/j.1469-8676.2012.00215.x}} *{{cite journal | last1 = Visser |last2= Kalb |first1 = Oane |first2 = Don | title = Financialised Capitalism Soviet Style? Varieties of State Capture and Crisis | journal = European Journal of Sociology | volume = 51 | issue = 2 | pages = 171–194 | date = 2010 | doi = 10.1017/S000397561000010X |hdl= 2066/90377 |s2cid= 145206501 | hdl-access = free }} *{{cite journal | last = Kalb | first = Don | title = Conversations with a Polish populist : Tracing hidden histories of globalization, class, and dispossession in postsocialism (and beyond) | journal = American Ethnologist | volume = 36 | issue = 2 | pages = 207–223 | date = 2009 | doi = 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2009.01131.x}} *{{cite journal | last = Kalb | first = Don | title = From flows to violence | journal = Anthropological Theory | volume = 5 | issue = 2 | pages = 176–204 | date = 2005 | doi = 10.1177/1463499605053994| s2cid = 145535313 }} ===Selected Book Chapters=== *{{cite encyclopedia |title = Regimes of Value and Worthlessness: How Two Subaltern Stories Speak | encyclopedia =Work and Livelihoods: History, Ethnography and Models in Times of Crisis | year =2017 |pages= 123–136 |last= Kalb |first= Don |editor-last1= Narotzky |editor-first1= Susana |editor-last2=Goddard |editor-first2=Victoria | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ip6iDQAAQBAJ&dq=Regimes+of+Value+and+Worthlessness%3A+How+Two+Subaltern+Stories+Speak.&pg=PT175 | publisher = [Routledge](/source/Routledge) | location =New York | isbn = 978-1138813984}} *{{cite encyclopedia |title = Introduction: class and the new anthropological holism | encyclopedia =Anthropologies of Class: Power, Practice, and Inequality | year =2015 |pages= 1–27 |last= Kalb |first= Don |editor-last1= Carrier |editor-first1= James G. |editor-last2=Kalb |editor-first2=Don | publisher = [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press) | location =Cambridge | isbn =978-1107087415}} *{{cite encyclopedia | encyclopedia =A Companion to Urban Anthropology | year =2014 |pages= 157–176 |last= Kalb |first= Don |editor-last= Nonini |editor-first= Donald M. | publisher = John Wiley & Sons Ltd | location =Chichester | isbn =978-1444330106| doi =10.1002/9781118378625.ch9 |chapter = Class}} *{{cite encyclopedia |title = Globalism and postsocialist prospects | encyclopedia =Postsocialism: ideals, ideologies, and practices in Eurasia | year =2001 |pages= 317–334 |last= Kalb |first= Don |editor-last= Hann|editor-first= C.M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cu--4UL2NMgC&dq=info:ESQNSCsytMkJ:scholar.google.com&pg=PA317 | publisher = [Routledge](/source/Routledge) | location =London | isbn =978-0415262583}} == References == {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mQ-02zwAAAAJ Google Scholar Profile - Don Kalb] *[https://gripinequality.org/employee/don-kalb/ Don Kalb] at [University of Bergen](/source/University_of_Bergen) *[http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2014-04-09-kalb-en.html Political mobilization and the world system: The case of Ukraine and Russia - an Interview with Don Kalb, Volodymyr Ishchenko, and Anastasia Riabchuk] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kalb, Don}} Category:Social anthropologists Category:Cultural anthropologists Category:Dutch anthropologists Category:Utrecht University alumni Category:Radboud University Nijmegen alumni Category:Dutch academic journal editors Category:1959 births Category:Living people Category:Academic staff of Central European University Category:Academic staff of Utrecht University --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Don Kalb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Kalb) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Kalb?action=history)). 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