Globalization and inequality in emerging societies

Globalization and inequality in emerging societies

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This volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new theory ofinequality beyond the nation state and beyond Eurocentrism. BOIKE REHBEIN is Professor for the Sociology of Asia and Africa at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. He has published widely on social theory, globalization and Southeast Asia. Recent publications include 'Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos' and 'Globalization and Emerging' Societies (co-edited with Jan Nederveen Pieterse). INDICE: 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 Debtof 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 Educationin 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 Elitesin 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 b Local Hierarchies: Peruvian Migrants' Labour Niches and Occupational Mobility in Chile; 'C.Mora - 'Conclusion; 'J.Pieterse - '

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-29973-3
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 296
  • Fecha Publicación: 28/10/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés