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48 49 50 <!-- Your like button code --> 51 <div class="fb-like" 52 data-href="http://www.facebook.com/focaalblog" 53 data-layout="standard" 54 data-action="like" 55 data-show-faces="true"> 56 </div> 57 <a id="site-logo" href="http://www.focaalblog.com/" title="Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology"> 58 <h1>Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology</h1> 59 </a> 60 <div class="nav-wrapper"> 61 <social> 62 <a id="fb" href="https://www.facebook.com/focaalblog">Facebook</a><a id="tw" href="https://twitter.com/focaalblog">Twitter</a> 63 </social> 64 <nav id="site-navigation" class="main-navigation" role="navigation"> 65 <div class="inner-content"> 66 <!-- 67 <menu> 68 <ul> 69 <li class="home"><a href="/" title="Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology">Home</a></li> 70 <li class="about"><a href="/about-us/">About Us</a></li> 71 <li class="journal"><a href="/journal/">Journal</a></li> 72 <li class="forum"><a href="/forum/">Forum</a></li> 73 <li class="features"><a href="/features/">Features</a></li> 74 <li class="conversations"><a href="/conversations-on-the-left/">Conversations on the Left</a></li> 75 <li class="art-visual-anthropology"><a href="/art-and-visual-anthropology/">Art and Visual Anthropology</a></li> 76 <li class="general"><a href="/general/">General Posts</a></li> 77 <li class="search"> 78 <div class="search-box"> 79 <form role="search" method="get" class="search-form" action="https://www.focaalblog.com/"> 80 <label> 81 <span class="screen-reader-text">Search for:</span> 82 <input type="search" class="search-field" placeholder="Enter text …" required value="" name="s" title="Search for:" /> 83 </label> 84 <input type="submit" class="search-submit" value="Go" /> 85 </form> 86 </div> 87 </li> 88 </ul> 89 </menu>//--> 90 <menu> 91 <ul> 92 <li class="home"><a href="/">Home</a></li> 93 <li class="journal"><a href="/journal/">Focaal Journal</a></li> 94 <li class="about"><a href="/about-us/">About/Team</a></li> 95 <li class="archive"><a href="/features/">Features</a></li> 96 <li class="contact"><a href="/general/">General Posts</a></li> 97 <li class="search"> 98 <div class="search-box"> 99 <form role="search" method="get" class="search-form" action="https://www.focaalblog.com/"> 100 <label> 101 <span class="screen-reader-text">Search for:</span> 102 <input type="search" class="search-field" placeholder="Enter text …" value="" name="s" title="Search for:" required /> 103 </label> 104 <input type="submit" class="search-submit" value="Go" /> 105 </form> 106 </div> 107 </li> 108 </ul> 109 </menu> 110 </div> 111 </nav> 112 </div> 113 </header> 114 <div id="page-wrapper" class="home"> 115 <!-- 116 <section id="left"> 117 118 </section> 119 //--> 120 121 <section id="main" lang="en-US"> 122 123 <!-- 124 <h1>Modes of Production</h1> 125 --> 126 127 <h1>Latest Posts</h1> 128 <h4><a href="/category/blog/">See All Posts</a></h4> 129 <article><h3><a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2026/08/11/tsvetelina-hristova-operative-and-performative-economies-of-information-in-communist-bulgaria/">Tsvetelina Hristova: Operative and Performative Economies of Information in Communist Bulgaria</a></h3><a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2026/08/11/tsvetelina-hristova-operative-and-performative-economies-of-information-in-communist-bulgaria/"><img src="https://www.focaalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Regional-History-Museum-Gabrovo.png" class="first_image" /></a><p>In the early 1970s, the socialist state of Bulgaria was starting to develop a series of interconnected systems for the automated governance of different areas of social and economic life. The party established a network of territorial computational centres, institutions that housed mainframe computers for shared use by factories and state employees. This network formed… <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2026/08/11/tsvetelina-hristova-operative-and-performative-economies-of-information-in-communist-bulgaria/">more...</a></p></article><article><h3><a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2026/07/07/don-nonini-how-is-workers-labor-power-inside-yet-beyond-capital/">Don Nonini: How is Workersâ Labor Power âInsideâ Yet âBeyondâ Capital?</a></h3><a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2026/07/07/don-nonini-how-is-workers-labor-power-inside-yet-beyond-capital/"><img src="https://www.focaalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Nonini_2026_Blog_Photo.jpg" class="first_image" /></a><p>Reading Donâs Value and Worthlessness (hereafter VAW)has been one of the peak experiences of my intellectual life. VAW promises to become one of the key texts in the Marxist anthropology of the 21st century. It displays Donâs rigorous Marxist theorizing, his study of the history of capitalism, and an ethnographic epistemology grounded in dialectical moves… <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2026/07/07/don-nonini-how-is-workers-labor-power-inside-yet-beyond-capital/">more...</a></p></article><article><h3><a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2026/05/25/sanne-derks-martijn-koster-and-stephanie-ketterer-crumbling-down-visualizing-housing-and-imagining-the-state-in-havana/">Sanne Derks, Martijn Koster and Stephanie Ketterer: Crumbling down: Visualizing housing and imagining the state in Havana</a></h3><a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2026/05/25/sanne-derks-martijn-koster-and-stephanie-ketterer-crumbling-down-visualizing-housing-and-imagining-the-state-in-havana/"><img src="https://www.focaalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/
129derks_image_1.jpg" class="first_image" /></a><p>âIronic, isnât it? Socialism is supposed to take care of the poor. But here in Cuba, if you donât have money, you donât have rights. I assure you that if I had 1,000 dollars, I would give 500 to one bureaucrat, and 500 to another, and within 72 hours they would show up with a… <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2026/05/25/sanne-derks-martijn-koster-and-stephanie-ketterer-crumbling-down-visualizing-housing-and-imagining-the-state-in-havana/">more...</a></p></article><article><h3><a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2026/05/13/luca-szucs-populism-in-retreat-lessons-from-orbans-downfall/">Luca Szücs: Populism in retreat? Lessons from Orbánâs downfall</a></h3><a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2026/05/13/luca-szucs-populism-in-retreat-lessons-from-orbans-downfall/"><img src="https://www.focaalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Szucs_image_1.jpeg" class="first_image" /></a><p>On the night of 12 April, in the wake of the landslide victory of the Tisza Party, Hungary erupted into collective euphoria. Images from election night quickly spread across global media, capturing an outpouring of emotion as people took to the streets not only in Budapest, but across the country. Many who experienced that night,… <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2026/05/13/luca-szucs-populism-in-retreat-lessons-from-orbans-downfall/">more...</a></p></article> 130 131 <div style="border:2px solid #CCC;"></div> 132 133 <h1>Features</h1> 134 <h4><a href="/features/">See All Features</a></h4> 135 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/slides.css" id="slides_style" /> 136
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136 137 138 <div id="slides"> 139 <container class="scroller"> 140 <item class="slide" id="slide16"> 141 <h2><a href="">Taxonomies of Difference in Global Humanitarianism</a></h2> 142 <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2024/10/23/malay-firoz-and-pedro-silva-rocha-lima-taxonomies-of-difference-in-global-humanitarianism/"><h3 style="text-align:left;">Malay Firoz and Pedro Silva Rocha Lima: Introduction</h3></a><p>Humanitarian action is marked by a striking disjunction between the universalising humanist vocabulary that undergirds its ethical commitments, and the taxonomies of racialised difference that govern its dispensation of moral concern and material aid. […]</p> 143 </item> 144 145 <item class="slide" id="slide15"> 146 <h2><a href="">Fascism</a></h2> 147 <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2024/01/24/don-nonini-and-ida-susser-introduction-fascism-then-and-now/"><h3 style="text-align:left;">Don Nonini and Ida Susser: Fascism: Then and Now</h3></a><p>On November 14, 2023, at the University of Toronto, we, the conveners of the Political Economy Discussion Group, an informal transnational group of anthropologists working in political economy, brought together an in-person group of more than 25 colleagues to discuss the question of the status of contemporary fascism. […]</p> 148 </item> 149 <item class="slide" id="slide1"> 150 <h2><a href="">War: New Times</a></h2> 151 <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2023/02/14/mihai-varga-crisis-tested-yet-forgotten-family-farms-in-wartime-ukraine/"><h3 style="text-align:left;">Mihai Varga: Crisis-tested, yet forgotten: Family farms in wartime Ukraine</h3></a><p>It was often said, in the course of the transition from communism to capitalism in the 1990s and 2000s, that Eastern Europeans are good at surviving. The IMF and the World Bank praised the local populationâs capacity to âsubsistâ through small-scale agricultural production, ârelievingâ welfare budgets or helping shoulder the liberalization of prices. In fact, […]</p> 152 </item> 153 <item class="slide" id="slide2"> 154 <h2><a href="">Anticipatory Perspectives on the Post-Corona Crisis Economy</a></h2> 155 <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2022/04/26/susan-paulson-gender-aware-care-in-pandemic-and-postgrowth-worlds/"><h3 style="text-align:left;">Susan Paulson: Gender-aware care in pandemic and postgrowth worlds</h3></a><p>Coronavirus has provoked some of us to think about our worlds in new ways and to consider different horizons of change. Yet in many pandemic-related discourses and policies, I have been frustrated to see hegemonic ideals about care, kinship, and residence distract attention from empirical realities and adequate solutions. Examples range from the ubiquitous representation […]</p> </item> 156 <item class="slide" id="slide3"> 157 <h2><a href="">In Honour of David Graeber: Exploring the Fissures and Cracks</a></h2> 158 <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2021/11/30/david-graeber-lse-tribute-seminar-lost-people/"><h3 style="text-align:left;">David Graeber LSE Tribute Seminar: Lost People</h3></a><p><i>Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar</i> is not Davidâs first published book, but it is based on his doctoral thesis and, in this sense, his first, major scholarly work. We are led in this discussion by Prof. Maurice Bloch and Prof. Jonathan Parryâtwo of Davidâs colleagues at the LSE and engaged readers of Davidâs work. […]</p> 159 </item> 160 <item class="slide" id="slide4"> 161 <h2><a href="">The Political Power of Energy Futures</a></h2> 162 <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2021/04/13/giulia-dal-maso-the-landing-of-a-chinese-green-bond-in-portugal/"><h3 style="text-align:left;">Giulia Dal Maso: The Landing of a Chinese Green Bond in Portugal</h3></a><p>This post is part of a feature on “The Political Power of Energy Futures,” moderated and edited by Katja Müller (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), Charlotte Bruckermann (University of Bergen), and Kirsten W. Endres (MPI Halle). In a little restaurant in the midst of a foggy day, Talita served me chicken, rice, salads and a glass of local […]</p> </item> 163 <item class="slide" id="slide5"> 164 <h2><a href="">Debating the EASA/PrecAnthro Precarity Report</a></h2>
165 <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2021/03/24/adam-brisley-ethics-and-the-anthropological-worker/"><h3 style="text-align:left;">Adam Brisley: RESPONSE: Ethics and the Anthropological Worker</h3></a><p>This post is part of a feature on “Debating the EASA/PreAnthro Precarity Report,” moderated and edited by Stefan Voicu (CEU) and Don Kalb (University of Bergen). Contemporary anthropological praxis sits at the intersection of two ethical traditions. Many anthropologists are equipped with both a sophisticated understanding of the ethics and politics of representation and a […]</p> </item> 166 <item class="slide" id="slide6"> 167 <h2><a href="">Urban Struggles</a></h2> 168 <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2020/10/02/janne-heederik-the-voluntarisation-of-welfare-in-manchester-a-blessing-and-a-burden/"><h3 style="text-align:left;">Janne Heederik: The Voluntarisation of Welfare in Manchester: A Blessing and a Burden</h3></a><p>This post is part of a feature on “Urban Struggles,” moderated and edited by Raúl Acosta (LMU Munich), Flávio Eiró (Radboud University Nijmegen), Insa Koch (LSE) and Martijn Koster (Radboud University Nijmegen). As a result of welfare reform and continuing budget cuts, social service agencies in the UK have struggled to make ends meet and […]</p> </item> 169 <item class="slide" id="slide7"> 170 <h2><a href="">How Capitalists Think</a></h2> 171 <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2018/04/24/david-loher-complicity-or-pragmatism-a-labor-movement-and-its-fight-against-the-asbestos-industry/"><h3 style="text-align:left;">David Loher: Complicity or pragmatism? A labor movement and its fight against the asbestos industry</h3></a><p>This post is part of a feature on “How Capitalists Think,” moderated and edited by Patrick Neveling (University of Bergen) and Tijo Salverda (University of Cologne). This contribution focuses on the decades-long struggle of workers and citizens in an industrial town in Northern Italy against the hazardous asbestos cement industry. It analyses the dividing lines […]</p> </item> 172 <item class="slide" id="slide8"> 173 <h2><a href="">2017 UK Elections</a></h2> 174 <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2017/06/08/patrick-neveling-vote-like-humans-elections-in-a-posthuman-political-economy/"><h3 style="text-align:left;">Patrick Neveling: âVote like humansâ: Elections in a posthuman political economy</h3></a><p>This post is part of a feature on the 2017 UK elections, moderated and edited by Patrick Neveling (SOAS, University of London). As I left Bournemouth train station this afternoon, a homeless man approached me and asked for some change. Shelters in Bournemouth and elsewhere in the United Kingdom charge money to rough sleepers on […]</p> </item> 175 <item class="slide" id="slide9"> 176 <h2><a href="">Anthropologists on the EU at 60</a></h2> 177 <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2017/04/05/cris-shore-what-is-a-european-solidarity-symbols-and-the-politics-of-exclusion/"><h3 style="text-align:left;">Cris Shore: What is a European?: Solidarity, symbols, and the politics of exclusion</h3></a><p>This post is part of a feature on anthropologists on the EU at 60, moderated and edited by Don Kalb (Central European University and University of Bergen). Earlier this year, a curious incident occurred in Auckland that ignited a heated debate over the meaning of the term âEuropean.â A new student club calling itself the Auckland […]</p> </item> 178 <item class="slide" id="slide10"> 179 <h2><a href="">The Latin American Pink Tide</a></h2> 180 <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2022/11/02/elena-maria-reichl-end-of-hell-brazils-election-and-a-community-kitchen-of-the-mtst/"><h3 style="text-align:left;">Elena Maria Reichl: End of Hell? Brazil's Election and a Community Kitchen of the MTST</h3></a><p>On 30/10/2022, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula) of the Workers’ Party won an exceptionally close runoff election against the current far-right president of Brazil, Jair Messias Bols
180onaro. For volunteers of a community kitchen (Cozinha Solidária) of the leftist Homeless Workers Movement (MTST), Lula’s victory represents an enormous relief and a hope after the long […]</p> </item> 181 <item class="slide" id="slide11"> 182 <h2><a href="">Modes of Production</a></h2> 183 <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2016/01/05/joe-trapido-epochs-and-continents-potlatch-articulation-and-violence-in-the-congo/"><h3 style="text-align:left;">Joe Trapido: Epochs and continents: Potlatch, articulation, and violence in the Congo</h3></a><p>This post is part of the Modes of Production feature moderated and edited by Patrick Neveling and Joe Trapido. From the sixteenth century onward, European trading networks grew ever more extensive. In some places, they displaced or directly subjugated the indigenous population early on. In others, merchants entered trading relationships with locals. In some parts […]</p> </item> 184 <item class="slide" id="slide12"> 185 <h2><a href="">Music and Capitalism</a></h2> 186 <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2015/04/17/tim-anderson-theorizing-the-social-musician/"><h3 style="text-align:left;">Tim Anderson: Theorizing the social musician</h3></a><p>Capitalâs resilience as technologies and cultures change lies in the systematic priority placed on value development and extraction. However, this does not imply that actors in these systems clearly understand their roles in the process. As industries change, equal amounts of optimism comingle with confusion as practitioners experiment with new roles and practices that they […]</p> </item> 187 <item class="slide" id="slide13"> 188 <h2><a href="">The Worldwide Urban Mobilizations</a></h2> 189 <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2014/11/14/dina-makram-ebeid-labor-struggles-and-the-politics-of-value-and-stability-in-a-factory-occupation-in-egypt/"><h3 style="text-align:left;">Dina Makram-Ebeid: âOld people are not revolutionariesâ: Labor struggles and the politics of value and stability (ʾistiqrÄr) in a factory occupation in Egypt</h3></a><p>On 11 February 2011 I stood in Tahrir Square surrounded by millions celebrating the toppling of Mubarak following eighteen solid days of battle. Around me were people from all walks of life: SaÊ¿idis (âSouthernersâ) who came all the way from villages in the south, street children turned rebels, family members of martyrs who were killed […]</p> 190 </item> 191 <item class="slide" id="slide14"> 192 <h2><a href="">Engaging Capitalism</a></h2> 193 <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2014/07/23/materialist-feminism-migration-and-affective-labor-mediations-in-capitalist-reproduction-winnie-lem/"><h3 style="text-align:left;">Winnie Lem: Materialist Feminism, Migration, and "Affective" Labor: Mediations in Capitalist Reproduction</h3></a><p>In the American Anthropologic al Association (AAA) panel on âAnthropologyâs Public Engagement with Capitalism: Beyond Gifts versus Marketsâ (Chicago, 2013), Don Kalb and Patrick Neveling asked us to advance on the genealogies that prevail as alternatives to anarchist and Maussian envisionings of communalism and societies against the state. They entreated us to visit perspectives that […]</p> 194 </item> 195 </container> 196 </div> 197 198 <ul class="slider_paging"><li><a class="silde1">1</a></li><li><a class="silde2">2</a></li><li><a class="silde3">3</a></li><li><a class="silde4">4</a></li><li><a class="silde5">5</a></li><li><a class="silde6">6</a></li><li><a class="silde7">7</a></li><li><a class="silde8">8</a></li><li><a class="silde9">9</a></li><li><a class="silde10">10</a></li><li><a class="silde11">11</a></li><li><a class="silde12">12</a></li><li><a class="silde13">13</a></li><li><a class="silde14">14</a></li></ul> 199 200 <div style="border:2px solid #CCC;"></div> 201 202 <h1>Art and Visual Anthropology</h1> 203 <h4><a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/art-and-visual-anthropology/">See All Posts</a></h4> 204 205 <article><h3><a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2026/05/25/sanne-derks-martijn-koster-and-stephanie-ketterer-crumbling-down-visualizing-housing-and-imagining-the-state-in-havana/">Sanne Derks, Martijn Koster and Stephanie Ketterer: Crumbling down: Visualizing housing and imagining the state in Havana</a></h3><a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2026/05/25/sanne-derks-martijn-koster-and-stephanie-ketterer-crumbling-down-visualizing-housing-and-imagining-the-state-in-havana/"><img src="https://www.focaalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/
205derks_image_1.jpg" alt="Luca Szücs: Populism in retreat? Lessons from Orbánâs downfall" class="first_image" /></a><p>âIronic, isnât it? Socialism is supposed to take care of the poor. But here in Cuba, if you donât have money, you donât have rights. I assure you that if I had 1,000 dollars, I would give 500 to one bureaucrat, and 500 to another, and within 72 hours they would show up with a… <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2026/05/25/sanne-derks-martijn-koster-and-stephanie-ketterer-crumbling-down-visualizing-housing-and-imagining-the-state-in-havana/">more...</a></p></article><article><h3><a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2025/11/17/astrea-nikolovska-geopolitics-socks/">Astrea Nikolovska: Geopolitics Socks</a></h3><a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2025/11/17/astrea-nikolovska-geopolitics-socks/"><img src="https://www.focaalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Image-1.jpg" alt="Luca Szücs: Populism in retreat? Lessons from Orbánâs downfall" class="first_image" /></a><p>In the mid-2010s, the tourist center of Belgrade was full of various souvenirs featuring the image of Vladimir Putin. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, pins, and magnets were sold at every souvenir stand. It was not particularly surprising, given that Serbian people have long felt a particular closeness to Russia. The Pan-Slavic idea of a brotherhood rooted… <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2025/11/17/astrea-nikolovska-geopolitics-socks/">more...</a></p></article><article><h3><a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2025/03/18/anna-balazs-war-displacement-and-cultural-heritage-reflections-on-a-workshop/">Anna Balazs: War, displacement, and cultural heritage: reflections on a workshop</a></h3><a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2025/03/18/anna-balazs-war-displacement-and-cultural-heritage-reflections-on-a-workshop/"><img src="https://www.focaalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Balazs_image-1.jpg" alt="Luca Szücs: Populism in retreat? Lessons from Orbánâs downfall" class="first_image" /></a><p>âOn the form, I ticked that I had got enough pads. I ticked that I had been instructed. I ticked that I had applied for microloans, more than once. I ticked that I had been encouraged. I ticked that I had nowhere to live. I ticked that I had nowhere to study. I ticked that… <a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2025/03/18/anna-balazs-war-displacement-and-cultural-heritage-reflections-on-a-workshop/">more...</a></p></article><article><h3><a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2025/01/08/gorkem-akgoz-the-sad-truth-then-and-now-pasts-and-presents-of-danish-refugee-policy/">Görkem Akgöz: âThe Sad Truthâ Then and Now: Pasts and Presents of Danish Refugee Policy</a></h3><a href="https://www.focaalblog.com/2025/01/08/gorkem-akgoz-the-sad-truth-then-and-now-pasts-and-presents-of-danish-refugee-policy/"><img src="https://www.focaalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/akgoz.jpg" alt="Luca Szücs: Populism in retreat? Lessons from Orbánâs downfall" class="first_image" /></a><p>This text was originally published in Swedish in Arbetar Historia (No.191-192, 2024). 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