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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 of inequality beyond the nation state and beyond Eurocentrism.
- About the authors
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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
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-7
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The Persistence of Sociocultures and Inequality in Contemporary Southeast Asia
Pages 11-30
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Globalization and Social Inequality in Asia
Pages 31-49
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Inequality, Exclusion and Poverty in Latin America: The Vast Social Debt of Neoliberalism
Pages 50-67
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Are the Brazilian Lower Classes Universal? Towards a Critical Theory of Modernization
Pages 71-91
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies
- Editors
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- B. Rehbein
- Series Title
- Frontiers of Globalization
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-35453-1
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230354531
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-29973-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-33532-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 283
- Topics