Talking about Global Inequality: Personal Experiences and Historical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783031080418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Christiansen, Christian Olaf

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Christian Olaf Christiansen, Oliver Bugge Hunt, Melanie Lindbjerg Machado-Guichon, Sofía Mercader  Priyanka Jha

Part I. Deep Roots: Legacies of Imperialism and Colonialism

2. Global Equality and Inequality: Notes for a New History; Siep Sturrman

3. Poverty and Ideology: Historic Pathways to Global Inequality; Julia McClure

4. Anti-Imperalism and Global Inequality; Göran Therborn

5. The Colonial Matrix of Power as a Wakeup Call; Walter Mignolo

6. From Third World to First, and Back Again: Colonial Logics and Global Inequality; Kho Tung-Yi

Part II. Unequal Entanglements: A Capitalist World System

7. Global Finance and Global Inequality: An Analysis Built on Global Measurement; James K. Galbraith

8. How the Global Movement of Money and People Turns the World Upside Down; Alastair Greig

9. The Need to Centre Imperialism in Our Study of Global Inequality; Ingrid Kvangraven

10. Global Inequality and the Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism; Gilbert Achcar

11. The Unequal Effects of Climate Change; Patrick Bond

Part III. The Inertia of Hierarchies: Class, Caste, Race and Gender

12. Reflecting on Global Inequality through my Experience of Inequality in India; Krishnas Swamy

13. Writing about Poverty and Caste as a Novelist and Cultural Critic; Subramanian Shankar

14. From the Personal to the Global; Arabo Ewinyu

15. Global Solidarities against Global Inequality; Manushi Yami Bhattarai

Part IV. Thinking Beyond Economics: The Politics of Inequalities

16. From Chile to New York: Inequality, Corruption and Ogliarchic Domination; Camila Vergara

17. Thinking about Global Inequality: From Buenos Aires to Belgrade; Agustín Cosovschi

18.  Making the Familiar Strange: Anthropological Reflections on Global Inequality; Tania Li

19. Mauritius in an Unequal World; Sheila Bunwaree.

O autorze

Christian Olaf Christiansen is an Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Mélanie Lindbjerg Machado-Guichon is a PhD Fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark.

 

Sofía Mercader is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Oliver Bugge Hunt is a PhD Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Priyanka Jha teaches at Banaras Hindu University, India.  

Blurb

"This is an original endeavor. It is rare that we have an emerging scholarly field treated in this way, and the value of this project lies in bringing these authors together and to the attention of a wide academic audience." 

—Pedro Ramos Pinto, Associate Professor, University of Cambridge, UK

 

"This book provides readers with a valuable overview of the current state of the field of studying global economic inequality. By bringing together various approaches from different theoretical and ideological perspectives, it serves as a crucial guide to understanding the various global facets of economic inequality. This book is essential reading and an enduring reference for future inequality research." 

—Michael J. Thompson, Professor, William Paterson University, USA

 

Comprising a collection of interview essays with nineteen public intellectuals and scholars from around the world, this book reflects on some of the most pressing questions of our age: what is global inequality; what causes it; and how should we deal with it? Leading figures within the fields of History, Sociology, Economics, Anthropology and Postcolonial Studies, shed light on how their personal backgrounds, places of work, and hometowns have shaped their views on global inequality. We learn about the causes of global inequality, the historical factors that have shaped the world into an unequal place, and the challenges that humanity is confronted with in the face of the widening gap between the poor and the rich. Bringing together voices from the Global North and South, this book helps us to think more broadly about inequality and deepens our understanding of how this long-lasting phenomenon is, and has been, experienced across the globe.

Christian Olaf Christiansen is an Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.

 

Mélanie Lindbjerg Machado-Guichon is a PhD fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Sofía Mercader is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Oliver Bugge Hunt is a PhD fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Priyanka Jha teaches at Banaras Hindu University, India.