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An invaluable guide to understanding the relationship between globalization, transnationalization and the development of social inequality.
Global Inequality addresses challenges in the transition to a multi-centered world. The contributions by international experts from different continents and different disciplines bring together current research on global inequality and social classes, covering a wide variety of thematic and spatial foci. This also includes a comparison of analyses of inequality in a global context. By bringing together analyses of inequalities in income, wealth, education, political influence, labor conditions, and socio-ecological inequalities, among others, the volume provides deeper insights into the ways in which global social inequalities are changing yet being reproduced in many ways in the twenty-first century. It calls for a discussion on the global dimensions of unequal power relations.
Christopher Wimmer is a sociologist and author. From 2023-2024, he worked as a research assistant at Humboldt-Universität (HU) zu Berlin. He has published several monographs and articles on social inequality, poverty research and marginalized groups, including "Exclusions and Marginalisation" (in: Global Handbook of Inequality, Springer, 2024) and Die Marginalisierten. (Über-)Leben zwischen Mangel und Notwendigkeit (Beltz, 2024).
Tobias Rieder is a sociologist with a focus on social inequality, classes, and milieus. Upon graduating from Humboldt Universität (HU) zu Berlin in Social Sciences, he worked as a Personal Advisor to the Senator for Culture and Europe in Berlin from 2016 to 2023.
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Notes on Contributors
1 Inequalities in a Globalizing World: Introduction
Christopher Wimmer and Tobias Rieder
Part 1 Global Inequality: Conceptual Foundations
2 Shifting Borders: Inequality Between and Within States in the Longue Durée
Andrea Komlosy
3 The Global Perspective on Income Inequality
Arthur Zito Guerriero and Jakob Kapeller
4 Neoliberal Globalization and Its Inequalities in Question: Reclassificatory Contributions in the Perspectives of Polanyi, Callon and Quijano
Alejandro Bialakowsky, Mariano Sasín, Tomás Nougués, Fermín Álvarez Ruiz, Elisa Ichaso and Agustín Bertelli
5 The Double Refinement of Distinction: (Re-)Production of Class Relations in Late Modern Capitalism with Marx and Bourdieu
Jan Weckwerth
6 The ‘Middle Classes’ in Latin America: a Reconstruction of Social Changes and Social Science Discourses
Bahareh Gondani, Matthias Riedmann and Adrian Scholz Alvarado
Part 2 Global Power and Class: Suffering and Privilege
7 Symbolic Domination and the Dividing Line of Respectability: Marginalization in Brazil and Germany
Christopher Wimmer and Jessé Souza
8 Class and Trauma under Escalatory Capitalist Conditions: Theoretical Reflections
Giorgos Bithymitris
9 Appropriating Developmentalism: the Transmodern Experience of a Community in the Colombian Pacific Basin
Andrés Bateman
10 Universities as Elite Allies: Disclosing Global Patterns of Inequality in Tertiary Education across Time
Magdalena Fellner
11 Undignified Capitalism, Authoritarianism and Racism: On the Brazilian Business Elite
Fabrício Maciel
Part 3 Inequalities in the (Global) Labor Market
12 Global Value Chains or Global Inequality Chains? Uneven Power Relations and Rents in International Production
Karin Fischer and Christian Reiner
13 The Need-Based Sector in the Global South: Surplus Populations and Socio-Ecological Conflicts in the Peripheries of 21st Century Capitalism
Jakob Graf
14 Informal Work in Companies and Households: a Saving Couple for Global Capitalism?
Johanna Sittel
15 A Class Approach for Characterizing and Comparing the Experiences of the Working Classes Across Countries
Francisco Javier Ardila Suarez
Part 4 Social Class and Political Struggle
16 Social Class and the Far-Right
Fabio Braun Carrasco
17 Social Class and Socio-Political Camps in Europe
Tobias Rieder and Christian Schneickert
18 We’re Not All In This Together – We’re Not All Responsible: a Class Perspective on Socio-ecological Inequalities
Hans Rackwitz
19 Investments and Innovation in Different Stages of Markets Globalization
Gilberto Antonelli
20 Global Class Formation and the Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism
Ronald W. Cox and Joshua Gold