Talking About Global Inequality

Personal Experiences and Historical Perspectives
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-08041-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 266 g

Comprising a collection of interview essays with nineteen public intellectuals and scholars from around the world, this book reflects on some of the most pressing questions of our age: what is global inequality; what causes it; and how should we deal with it? Leading figures within the fields of History, Sociology, Economics, Anthropology and Postcolonial Studies, shed light on how their personal backgrounds, places of work, and hometowns have shaped their views on global inequality. We learn about the causes of global inequality, the historical factors that have shaped the world into an unequal place, and the challenges that humanity is confronted with in the face of the widening gap between the poor and the rich. Bringing together voices from the Global North and South, this book helps us to think more broadly about inequality and deepens our understanding of how this long-lasting phenomenon is, and has been, experienced across the globe.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Christiansen, Christian Olaf

Machado-Guichon, Mélanie Lindbjerg

Jha, Priyanka

Mercader, Sofía

Hunt, Oliver Bugge

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; Christian Olaf Christiansen, Oliver Bugge Hunt, Melanie Lindbjerg Machado-Guichon, Sofía Mercader Priyanka Jha
Part I. Deep Roots: Legacies of Imperialism and Colonialism
2. Global Equality and Inequality: Notes for a New History; Siep Sturrman3. Poverty and Ideology: Historic Pathways to Global Inequality; Julia McClure4. Anti-Imperalism and Global Inequality; Go¨ran Therborn5. The Colonial Matrix of Power as a Wakeup Call; Walter Mignolo6. From Third World to First, and Back Again: Colonial Logics and Global Inequality; Kho Tung-Yi
Part II. Unequal Entanglements: A Capitalist World System
7. Global Finance and Global Inequality: An Analysis Built on Global Measurement; James K. Galbraith8. How the Global Movement of Money and People Turns the World Upside Down; Alastair Greig9. The Need to Centre Imperialism in Our Study of Global Inequality; Ingrid Kvangraven10. Global Inequality and the Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism; Gilbert Achcar11. The Unequal Effects of Climate Change; Patrick Bond
Part III. The Inertia of Hierarchies: Class, Caste, Race and Gender
12. Reflecting on Global Inequality through my Experience of Inequality in India; Krishnas Swamy13. Writing about Poverty and Caste as a Novelist and Cultural Critic; Subramanian Shankar14. From the Personal to the Global; Arabo Ewinyu15. Global Solidarities against Global Inequality; Manushi Yami Bhattarai
Part IV. Thinking Beyond Economics: The Politics of Inequalities
16. From Chile to New York: Inequality, Corruption and Ogliarchic Domination; Camila Vergara17. Thinking about Global Inequality: From Buenos Aires to Belgrade; Agusti´n Cosovschi18. Making the Familiar Strange: Anthropological Reflections on Global Inequality; Tania Li19. Mauritius in an Unequal World; Sheila Bunwaree.

Über Autor(innen)

Christian Olaf Christiansen is an Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Mélanie Lindbjerg Machado-Guichon is a PhD Fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark.



Sofía Mercader is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Oliver Bugge Hunt is a PhD Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Priyanka Jha teaches at Banaras Hindu University, India.