Full Description
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.
Contents
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
