Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies: (Frontiers of Globalization)

The aim of this volume is to study inequality by linking Global and Area Studies. Discourses on inequality usually tend to focus on two issues: inequality within nation states and inequality on a global scale. As far as nation states are concerned, traditional research has dealt with industrialized Western countries, while recently the great emerging powers of China, India, Brazil and South Africa have shifted into the focus of attention. As far as global inequality is concerned, research has either ranked countries or tried to aim at something like a global social structure. Recent attempts at the analysis of global and national inequality have revealed their close interdependence as well as a rapid increase in complexity. There are huge local imbalances within nation states, important transnational structures, influential institutions beyond the nation states, tendencies of region-building and shifting hubs of economic activities. They can neither be analyzed merely from a global (macro) perspective nor from a (micro) regional perspective. Therefore, each chapter addresses inequality in an empirical setting linking it to globalization, and contributes to the development of a new theory of inequality beyond the nation state and beyond Eurocentrism.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; B.Rehbein PART I: REGIONAL INEQUALITIES The Persistence of Socio-Cultures and Inequality in Contemporary Southeast Asia; V.Houben & B.Rehbein Globalization and Social Inequality in Asia; H.Khondker Inequality, Exclusion and Poverty in Latin America: The Vast Social Debt of Neoliberalism; R.Elizaga PART II: NATIONAL INEQUALITIES For a Critical Theory of Modernization: Are the Brazilian Lower Classes Universal?; J.Souza The Militarization of Urban Marginality: Lessons from the Brazilian Metropolis; L.Wacquant Global Expansion of Capitalism, Inequality and Social Movements: The Iranian Case; S.Fadaee Outward Bound, Tangled Nightmares: Rereading Globalization in Contemporary Nigeria; O.Adesina Higher Education in Russia: Is There a Way out of a Neoliberal Impasse?; A.Magun PART III: TRANSNATIONAL INEQUALITIES Emerging Powers Development, Global Economic Crisis and Value Chains Restructuring; G.Antonelli Global and National Elites in South America: Limited Transnationalization Processes and the Persistence of Inequality; A.Pelfini Access of Highly Skilled Migrants to Transnational Labour Markets: Is Class Formation Transcending National Divides?; A.Weiss & S.Mensah Transnational Inequalities, Transnational Responses: The Politicization of Migrant Rights in Asia; N.Piper & S.Rother Global Inequalities - Local Hierarchies: Peruvian Migrants' Labour Niches and Occupational Mobility in Chile; C.Mora Conclusion; J.Pieterse

About the Author :
BOIKE REHBEIN is Professor for the Sociology of Asia and Africa at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. He has published widely on social theory, globalization and Southeast Asia. Recent publications include Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos and Globalization and Emerging Societies (co-edited with Jan Nederveen Pieterse).