Chapter 2 — On Difference and Devaluation in Contemporary Capitalism: Notes on Exploitation in a Myanmar Squatter Settlement

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface viii
5. Introduction — Value at the End of the Cycle: On Frontlines and Regimes 1
6. Chapter 1 — Special Economic Zones: The Global Frontlines of Neoliberalism’s Value Regime 40
7. Chapter 2 — On Difference and Devaluation in Contemporary Capitalism: Notes on Exploitation in a Myanmar Squatter Settlement 70
8. Chapter 3 — Carbon as Value: Four Short Stories of Ecological Civilization in China 96
9. Chapter 4 — Enclosing Gurugram: Vernacular Valorization on India’s Urban Frontline 124
10. Chapter 5 — Construction, Labor, and Luxury in Kathmandu’s Post-conflict Tourism Economy 151
11. Chapter 6 — Dispossession as a Manifold: Frontlines of Authoritarian Populist Politics in Turkey 180
12. Chapter 7 — “Scraps from the Bourgeois Kitchen” On the Romanian Frontline of Outsourced Creativity 211
13. Chapter 8 — “As Much Value as Possible” Construction, Universities, Finance, and the “Greater Good” in the North East of England 242
14. Chapter 9 — Labor, Value, and Frontlines in Reading and Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States 271
15. Afterword — Reflections on Value, Objectivi ty, and Death 303
16. Index 317