Don Kalb
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 Kalb in December 2015. | |
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October 15, 1959 Eindhoven |
| Nationality | Netherlands |
| Fields | Social anthropology |
| Institutions | Central European University, Budapest, Hungary |
| Alma mater | Catholic University of Nijmegen, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Notable students | Jan Drahokoupil, Mariya Ivancheva, Kacper Poblocki, Florin Poenaru, Elisabeth Schober |
| Known for | critical junctions, relational class, structured contingencies |
| Influences | Eric Wolf, Charles Tilly, Norbert Elias, E.P. Thompson, Jonathan Friedman, Immanuel Wallerstein |
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Donatus Pius "Don" Kalb (15 October 1959) is a professor of sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University and assistant professor of social sciences and cultural anthropology at Universiteit Utrecht.[1][2]
Education
Kalb completed his MA in cultural anthropology at the Catholic University of Nijmegen in 1988 before finishing his PhD in social sciences at the Universiteit Utrecht in 1995.[1]
Thought
Kalb's work has addressed numerous topics including globalization, nationalism, labor history, and class.[3] Although a social and cultural anthropologist by training, Kalb's scholarship has often utilized historical evidence as opposed to fieldwork, leading to him to having been described by historian Michael Hanagan as "an anthropologist, equally at home with historical methods and debates".[4]
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 region of the Netherlands through a case study of the region's predominately Catholic working-class families. Following 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 region's cultural and social circumstances as well as productive relations.[4] 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".[5]
Focaal
Kalb is the founding editor of anthropology journal Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology,[3] as well as the current FocaalBlog editor.[6] 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".[7]
Bibliography
Books
- Kalb, Don (1998). Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities; The Netherlands 1850-1950. Comparative and International Working-Class History. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-2022-7.
Edited Volumes
- Carrier, James; Kalb, Don, eds. (2015). Anthropologies of Class: Power, Practice, and Inequality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107087415.
- Kalb, Don; Halmai, Gábor, eds. (2011). Headlines of Nation, Subtexts of Class: Working Class Populism and the Return of the Repressed in Neoliberal Europe. EASA Series 15. Oxford: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-0857452030.
- Kalb, Don; Tak, Herman, eds. (2006). Critical Junctions: Anthropology and History beyond the Cultural Turn. Oxford: Berghan Books. ISBN 978-1845450298.
- Kalb, Don; Pansters, Wil; Siebers, Hans, eds. (2004). Globalization and Development: Themes and Concepts in Current Research. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-1402024740.
- Kalb, Don; van der Land, Marco; Staring, Richard; Van Steenbergen, Bart; Wilterdink, Nico, eds. (2000). The Ends of Globalization: Bringing Society Back In. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0847698851.
Selected Articles
- Kalb, Don (2013). "Financialization and the capitalist moment: Marx versus Weber in the anthropology of global systems". American Ethnologist 40 (2): 258–266. doi:10.1111/amet.12018.
- Kalb, Don (2012). "Thinking about neoliberalism as if the crisis was actually happening". Social Anthropology 20 (3): 318–330. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8676.2012.00215.x.
- Visser, Oane; Kalb, Don (2010). "Financialised Capitalism Soviet Style? Varieties of State Capture and Crisis". European Journal of Sociology 51 (2): 171–194. doi:10.1017/S000397561000010X.
- Kalb, Don (2009). "Conversations with a Polish populist : Tracing hidden histories of globalization, class, and dispossession in postsocialism (and beyond)". American Ethnologist 36 (2): 207–223. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1425.2009.01131.x.
- Kalb, Don (2005). "From flows to violence". Anthropological Theory 5 (2): 176–204. doi:10.1177/1463499605053994.
- Kalb, Don (2001). "Globalism and postsocialist prospects". In Hann, C.M. Postsocialism: ideals, ideologies, and practices in Eurasia. London: Routledge. pp. 317–334. ISBN 978-0415262583.
Notes
- 1 2 "Central European University: Academic Profile of Don Kalb". Retrieved April 17, 2016.
- ↑ "Universiteit Utrecht Staff Social and Behavioural Sciences Faculty Page". Retrieved April 17, 2016.
- 1 2 "Universiteit Leiden - Seminar by Don Kalb "Neo-nationalism and the return of class as trauma: East and West European"". Retrieved April 17, 2016.
- 1 2 Hanagan, Michael (1999). "Reviewed Work: Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, the Netherlands, 1850-1950 by Don Kalb". Journal of Social History (Oxford University Press) 33 (1): 217–219. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
- ↑ Tilly, Charles (2001). "Relational origins of inequality" (PDF). Anthropological Theory (Sage Publications Inc.) 1 (3): 355–372. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
- ↑ "Focaal Blog - About Us". Retrieved April 17, 2016.
- ↑ "Focaal - Aims & Scope". Retrieved April 19, 2016.
External links
- Google Scholar Profile - Don Kalb
- Political mobilization and the world system: The case of Ukraine and Russia - an Interview with Don Kalb, Volodymyr Ishchenko, and Anastasia Riabchuk
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