Don Kalb

Senior Affiliated Fellow
Period of Stay: 
January - June 2027
2026/27
Building: 
Budapest, Nador u. 13
Discipline: 
Anthropology
Institution: 
Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Belgium
Project Title: 
Value, Values, and the Radical Right
Project Abstract: 

On the blurred lines of anthropology, geography, history and political economy one can develop a methodology that looks at the dialectic of value (in the singular) and values (in the multiple), allowing one to search for the deeper lived dynamics of devaluation and alienation (and capital valorization) that may help us to understand and explain the global rise of the radical right in ways that go beyond the daily news and the obvious dynamics of political parties. At the IAS I will continue my comparativist anthropological work on the global right- wing “sovereigntist” backlash, looking at variegated, differentiated but nevertheless kindred trajectories worldwide in the context of the contradictions of uneven and combined global capitalist transformations.