Don Kalb

Kalb grew up in the municipality of 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 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 in cultural anthropology at the Catholic University of Nijmegen in 1988 before finishing his PhD in social sciences at the Universiteit Utrecht in 1995.

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 in Vienna, 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 in 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, Kalb directs the financialization research group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.{{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}}

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

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".{{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 }}

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Kalb is the founding editor of anthropology journal Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 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}}

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• {{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 }}

• {{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 }}
• {{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 |editor2-last= Halmai |editor2-first= Gábor |series = EASA Series |volume = 15 |publisher = Berghahn Books | location =Oxford | isbn =978-0857452030}}
• {{cite book | title =Critical Junctions: Anthropology and History beyond the Cultural Turn | year =2006 |editor-last= Kalb |editor-first= Don |editor2-last= Tak |editor2-first= Herman | publisher = Berghan Books | location =Oxford | isbn =978-1845450298}}
• {{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}}

• {{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 }}

• {{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 | 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 | 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 | location =London | isbn =978-0415262583}}

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• [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mQ-02zwAAAAJ Google Scholar Profile - Don Kalb]
• [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]

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