Imagining Brazil provides a comprehensive and multifaceted picture of Brazil in the age of globalization. Privileging diversity in relation to the authors as well as the manner in which Brazil is perceived, Jesse Souza and Valter Sinder have assembled historians, political scientists, sociologists, literary critics, and scholars of culture in an attempt to understand a complex society in all its richness and diversity. Rising from one of the world's poorest societies in the 1930s to the eighth largest world economy in the 1980s, Brazil is used as an example of globalization's impact on...
Imagining Brazil provides a comprehensive and multifaceted picture of Brazil in the age of globalization. Privileging diversity in relation to the aut...
Die vorliegende Studie von Jesse Souza, ursprunglich als Habilitationsschrift fur die Universitat Flensburg geschrieben, stellt den anspruchsvollen Versuch dar, die Idee der peripheren Ungleichheit zu kritisieren, indem sie als Bestandteil des klassischen, langst uberfalligen Modernisierungsparadigmas prasentiert wird. Nach dem klassischem Erklarungsschema werden periphere Gesellschaften, also solche, die sich am Rande der kapitalistischen Kernlander des Westens befinden, als Entwicklungsstufen auf einem Modernisierungspfad verstanden, der in die einzige Richtung eines institutionellen...
Die vorliegende Studie von Jesse Souza, ursprunglich als Habilitationsschrift fur die Universitat Flensburg geschrieben, stellt den anspruchsvollen Ve...
Inequality is one of the most discussed topics of our times. Yet, we still do not know how to tackle the issue effectively. The book argues that this is due to the lack of understanding the structures responsible for the persistence of social inequality. It enquires into the mechanisms that produce and reproduce invisible dividing lines in society. Based on original case studies of Brazil, Germany, India and Laos comprising thousands of interviews, the authors argue that invisible classes emerge in capitalist societies, both reproducing and transforming precapitalist hierarchies. At the...
Inequality is one of the most discussed topics of our times. Yet, we still do not know how to tackle the issue effectively. The book argues that th...
