Globalization and inequality in emerging societies
By: [edited by] Boike Rehbein
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780230299733
Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development; International economic relations; Economic development; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization; Globalization; Economic conditions; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing Countries
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"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction / B. Rehbein; title: PART I: REGIONAL INEQUALITIES; title: The Persistence of Socio-Cultures and Inequality in Contemporary Southeast Asia / V. Houben & B. Rehbein; title: Globalization and Social Inequality in Asia / H. Khondker; title: Inequality, Exclusion and Poverty in Latin America : The Vast Social Debt of Neoliberalism / R. Elizaga; title: PART II: NATIONAL INEQUALITIES; title: For a Critical Theory of Modernization : Are the Brazilian Lower Classes Universal? / J. Souza; title: The Militarization of Urban Marginality : Lessons from the Brazilian Metropolis / L. Wacquant; title: Global Expansion of Capitalism, Inequality and Social Movements : The Iranian Case / S. Fadaee; title: Outward Bound, Tangled Nightmares : Rereading Globalization in Contemporary Nigeria / O. Adesina; title: Higher Education in Russia : Is There a Way out of a Neoliberal Impasse? / A. Magun; title: PART III: TRANSNATIONAL INEQUALITIES; title: Emerging Powers Development, Global Economic Crisis and Value Chains Restructuring / G. Antonelli; title: Global and National Elites in South America : Limited Transnationalization Processes and the Persistence of Inequality / A. Pelfini; title: Access of Highly Skilled Migrants to Transnational Labour Markets : Is Class Formation Transcending National Divides? / A. Weiss & S. Mensah; title: Transnational Inequalities, Transnational Responses : The Politicization of Migrant Rights in Asia / N. Piper & S. Rother; title: Global Inequalities : Local Hierarchies : Peruvian Migrants' Labour Niches and Occupational Mobility in Chile / C. Mora; title: Conclusion / J. Pieterse.