Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-33532-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 283 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 432 g

Reihe: Frontiers of Globalization

This volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new theory of inequality beyond the nation state and beyond Eurocentrism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rehbein, B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; B.Rehbein PART I: REGIONAL INEQUALITIES The Persistence of Socio-Cultures and Inequality in Contemporary Southeast Asia; V.Houben  & B.Rehbein Globalization and Social Inequality in Asia;  H.Khondker Inequality, Exclusion and Poverty in Latin America: The Vast Social Debt of Neoliberalism;  R.Elízaga PART II: NATIONAL INEQUALITIES For a Critical Theory of Modernization: Are the Brazilian Lower Classes Universal?; J.Souza The Militarization of Urban Marginality: Lessons from the Brazilian Metropolis;  L.Wacquant  Global Expansion of Capitalism, Inequality and Social Movements: The Iranian Case; S.Fadaee  Outward Bound, Tangled Nightmares: Rereading Globalization in Contemporary Nigeria; O.Adesina  Higher Education in Russia: Is There a Way out of a Neoliberal Impasse?; A.Magun PART III: TRANSNATIONAL INEQUALITIES Emerging Powers Development, Global Economic Crisis and Value Chains Restructuring;  G.Antonelli Global and National Elites in South America: Limited Transnationalization Processes and the Persistence of Inequality; A.Pelfini Access of Highly Skilled Migrants to Transnational Labour Markets: Is Class Formation Transcending National Divides?; A.Weiß  & S.Mensah Transnational Inequalities, Transnational Responses: The Politicization of Migrant Rights in Asia;  N.Piper  & S.Rother Global Inequalities – Local Hierarchies: Peruvian Migrants' Labour Niches and Occupational Mobility in Chile;  C.Mora Conclusion; J.Pieterse

Über Autor(innen)

OLUTAYO CHARLES ADESINA Professor in the Department of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
GILBERTO ANTONELLI Professor of Economics at the School of Development Innovation and Change (SDIC), University of Bologna, Italy
SIMIN FADAEE Assistant Professor for the Sociology of Asia and Africa at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
VINCENT HOUBEN Chair of Southeast Asian Culture and History at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
HABIBUL HAQUE KHONDKER Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
ARTEMY MAGUN Professor of Political Theory at the European University of St. Petersburg and at St. Petersburg State University, Russia
SAMUEL N-A MENSAH Subject Head for Economics, University of the Free State, Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa
CLAUDIA MORA Faculty Member of the Department of Sociology at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago de Chile
JAN NEDERVEEN PIETERSE Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
ALEJANDRO PELFINI Professor of Sociology at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago de Chile, and Global Studies Programme Director at FLACSO-Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
NICOLA PIPER Senior Research Fellow at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute for Socio-Cultural Research at Freiburg University, Germany
STEFAN ROTHER Research Fellow at the Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute for Socio-cultural Research and Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Freiburg, Germany
RAQUEL SOSA ELIZAGA Professor of the Center for Latin American Studies, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
JESSÉ SOUZA Professor of Sociology at the Federal University Juiz de Fora and Director of the Center for Inequality Research (CEPEDES), Brazil
LOIC WACQUANT Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Berkeley, USA
ANJA WEIß Professor for Macro-Sociology and Transnational Processes at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany