Full Description
In The Politics of Inequality, David Pettinicchio has gathered an interdisciplinary team of leading experts to make a valuable contribution to the existing inequalities literature through a political sociology lens. Broad social, political and economic forces associated with neoliberalism and globalization, climate change, migration and immigration, health, global financial crises, and crime and punishment, among others, have manifested themselves in a variety of different ways, in turn influencing the politics of inequality across local, national and international contexts.
This volume explores a wide range of topics showcasing the multidimensional nature of the politics of inequality. Some of these topics include inequalities within democratic movements, youth political engagement, environmental justice, the impacts of neoliberal capitalism on reproductive autonomy, the politics of educational inequalities, the effects of different forms of collective action on perceptions of inequality, public health and care work, the intersection of race and LGBTQ status in political representation, and much more.
Contents
Part I: Making Inequality Part of the Political and Policy Agenda Chapter 1. How did Inequality as a Political Issue Gain and Retain Such Prominence on the Democratic Party Agenda?; Keith Gunnar Bentele
Chapter 2. Coalitions That Clash: California's Climate Leadership and the Perpetuation of Environmental Inequality; Joshua A. Basseches, Kaitlyn Rubinstein, and Sarah M. Kulaga
Part II: The Politics of Welfare State Retrenchment
Chapter 3. Welfare State Recalibration in France and Germany: What Role do Polarization and Inequalities in People's Attitudes Towards Social Policies Play?; Agnes Blome
Chapter 4. Stones vs Routines: Students and Politicians in Higher Education Tuition Policy; Didem Türkoğlu
Chapter 5. Welfare, Punishment, and Social Marginality: Understanding the Connections; Marco Brydolf-Horwitz and Katherine Beckett
Part III: The Political, Social and Economic Impacts of Inequality on Vulnerable Groups
Chapter 6. Crises of Social Reproduction Among Women of Color: The State and Local Politics of Inequality within Neoliberal Capitalism; Julisa McCoy, Jessica Moronez, Evelyn Pruneda, and Ellen Reese
Chapter 7. The Persistent Challenge of HIV & Black MSM in the American South: Racial Inequality & the LGBTQ Community; Ravi K. Perry and Aaron D. Camp
Chapter 8. From Diaspora Mobilization to Immigrant Resistance: Comparing Syrian and Yemeni Mobilization Against Inequality at Home and Abroad; Dana M. Moss
Part IV: Mobilizing Against Inequality
Chapter 9. Occupying against inequality; Jacquelien van Stekelenburg and Teodora Gaidyte
Chapter 10. Moral Economies, Mobilization, and Inequality: The Case of the 2018 U.S. Teachers' Strikes; Eric Blanc and Barry Eidlin
Chapter 11. Living Down to Expectations: Age Inequality and Youth Activism; Thomas V. Maher and Jennifer Earl
Chapter 12. Creative Disappointment: How Movements for Democracy Spawn Movements for Even More Democracy; John Markoff, Hillary Lazar, and Jackie Smith
