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"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 off shoring 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."

Civilizing Globalization: A Survival Guide. Richard Sandbrook, ed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. 279 pp.Globalization, the State, and Violence. Jonathan Friedman, ed. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2003. 389 pp.

The Anthropology of Globalization: Cultural Anthropology Enters the 21st Century. Ted C. Lewellen. Westport: Bergin and Garvey, 2002. 282 pp.

Geoff Eley and Keith Nield embrace an institutional perspective
à la Ira Katznelson, but they do so with a much stronger
emphasis on popular alliance formation and social movements than Katznelson.
Social history's role, in their vision, would consist of capturing the
dynamics of stability and change in densely and intensively studied local
contexts. It is the injustices embedded in such contexts that apparently feed
these movements and alliances. Class is thus reduced to a microheuristic of
hidden injuries and subaltern identities. However, the concept of social class
can only help to articulate a position beyond formal institutionalism and the
class language of bipolarity when it is wedded to a nonreductionist,
nonessentialist, and nonfinalist theory of capitalism. Seen from this
perspective, capitalism is a worldwide and world- embedded process of combined
and uneven development that constantly assembles and disassembles the materials
from which human communities are made. In short, if we want to rethink class in
place, we need to rethink capitalism in space.

There is an economic logic and a moral logic and it is futile to argue as to which we give priority since they are different expressions of the same "kernel" of human relationship.—E. P. Thompson, 1961Class is certainly a key concept of social history just as civilization is for the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias and his followers. Each of these traditions needs to come to terms with the other. Notwithstanding fundamentally divergent assumptions, interests, and styles, both traditions would gain from a closer examination of each other's concepts, subjects, and methods.