Don Kalb

Don Kalb
Kalb at the Central European University, December 2015.
Born	(1959-10-15) October 15, 1959 Eindhoven
Nationality	Netherlands
Alma mater	Catholic University of Nijmegen, Universiteit Utrecht
Known for	critical junctions, relational class, structured contingencies
Scientific career
Fields	Social anthropology
Institutions	Central European University, Universiteit Utrecht

Donatus Pius "Don" Kalb (15 October 1959) is a Dutch anthropologist and professor of sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University, as well as assistant professor of social sciences and cultural anthropology at Universiteit Utrecht.

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.

Work

Kalb's work has addressed numerous topics including globalization, nationalism, labor history, and class. 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".

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. 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".

Focaal

Main article: Focaal

Kalb is the founding editor of anthropology journal Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, as well as the current FocaalBlog editor. 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".

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. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• 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. Vol. 15. Oxford: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-0857452030. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Kalb, Don; Tak, Herman, eds. (2006). Critical Junctions: Anthropology and History beyond the Cultural Turn. Oxford: Berghan Books. ISBN 978-1845450298. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Kalb, Don; Pansters, Wil; Siebers, Hans, eds. (2004). Globalization and Development: Themes and Concepts in Current Research. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-1402024740. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• 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. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

Selected Articles

• Kalb, Don (2014). "Class". In Nonini, Donald M. (ed.). A Companion to Urban Anthropology. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. pp. 157–176. ISBN 1444330101.
• 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. (ed.). Postsocialism: ideals, ideologies, and practices in Eurasia. London: Routledge. pp. 317–334. ISBN 978-0415262583.

External links

• Google Scholar Profile - Don Kalb
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• Political mobilization and the world system: The case of Ukraine and Russia - an Interview with Don Kalb, Volodymyr Ishchenko, and Anastasia Riabchuk