Understanding the dynamics of global inequality [electronic resource] : social exclusion, power shift, and structural changes / Alexander Lenger, Florian Schumacher, editors.
2015
HM821 .U53 2015eb
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Understanding the dynamics of global inequality [electronic resource] : social exclusion, power shift, and structural changes / Alexander Lenger, Florian Schumacher, editors.
ISBN
9783662447666 electronic book
3662447665 electronic book
3662447657 (print)
9783662447659 (print)
3662447665 electronic book
3662447657 (print)
9783662447659 (print)
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Heidelberg : Springer, 2015.
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English
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1 online resource (xvi, 284 pages) : illustrations
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10.1007/978-3-662-44766-6 doi
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HM821 .U53 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.51
Summary
Despite the fact that the globalization process tends to reinforce existing inequality structures and generate new areas of inequality on multiple levels, systematic analyses on this very important field remain scarce. Hence, this book approaches the complex question of inequality not only from different regional perspectives, covering Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin and Northern America, but also from different disciplinary perspectives, namely cultural anthropology, economics, ethnology, geography, international relations, sociology, and political sciences. The contributions are subdivided into three essential fields of research: Part I analyzes the socio-economic dimension of global exclusion, highlighting in particular the impacts of internationalization and globalization processes on national social structures against the background of theoretical concepts of social inequality. Part II addresses the political dimension of global inequalities. Since the decline of the Soviet Union new regional powers like Brazil, China, India and South Africa have emerged, creating power shifts in international relations that are the primary focus of the second part. Lastly, Part III examines the structural and transnational dimension of inequality patterns, which can be concretized in the rise of globalized national elites and the emergence of multinational networks that transcend the geographical and imaginative borders of nation states.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Part I: Introduction
Part II: Dynamics of Global Exclusion
Part III: Global Power Shift
Part IV: Global Structures, Networks and Inequality.
Part I: Introduction
Part II: Dynamics of Global Exclusion
Part III: Global Power Shift
Part IV: Global Structures, Networks and Inequality.