Book Launch: Insidious Capital 

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.
This book launch is organized in collaboration with GRIP, the Global Research Programme on Inequality.
Introduction: Don Kalb GRIP University of Bergen
Commentators: Geir Henning Presterudstuen University of Bergen, Anwesha Dutta and Carmeliza Rosario CMI
Moderator: Elina Troscenko GRIP University of Bergen