Raquel Sosa Elzaga has assembled an incredibly complete set of analyses of inequality written by a range of scholars about a wide range of issues. Incomparable essential reading. aaaa- Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scientist, Sociology, Yale University Over recent decades, living conditions in poorer countries have deteriorated, leaving us faced with the present phenomenon of global inequality. Arguably the biggest challenge of the 21st Century is the confrontation and eventual elimination of the processes of structural inequality that affect these millions of human beings today. Facing an Unequal World tackles and critically examines key issues and challenges for global sociology across these interrelated themes: O The dimensions of inequality and the configurations of structural inequalities and structures of power O Conceptions of justice in different historical and cultural traditions O Conflicts on environmental justice and sustainable futures O The social injuries of inequality, andaovercoming inequalitiesa Written by a selection of international key sociologists and academics, this is a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers in sociology alike.
Chapter 1: Introduction - Raquel Sosa Elizaga Part One: Capitalism and Inequality: Globalized Economies and Fractured Societies Chapter 2: When Extractive Logics Rule: Proliferating Expulsions - Saskia Sassen Chapter 3: Resilience, Resistance and Rewiring the World Economy: A View from the South - Ari Sitas Chapter 4: Stratification Requiescat in Pace: Paradigm Shift: From 'Stratification' and Mobility to Inequality - Goeran Therborn Part Two: Economic, Territorial and Social Dimensions of Inequality Chapter 5: Globalization, Uneven Economic Development, Inequality and Poverty: The Interactive Effects Between Position in the Modern World System and Domestic Stratification Systems - Harold Kerbo Chapter 6: Poverty and Inequality in the Arab World - Habibul Haque Khondker Chapter 7: Amazonia: Territorial Tensions in Progress - Carlos Walter Porto-Goncalves Chapter 8: Climate Change and Vulnerable Urban Groups: Comparative Analysis of Taipei and Kaohsiung - Keng-Ming Hsu & Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao Chapter 9: The Coming of the New Class Society: Gender Matters - Chizuko Ueno Chapter 10: Duel of the Dualisms: Production and Reproduction Reconfiguring - Susan A. McDaniel Chapter 11: The Historic Environment in Opposition to Social Inequalities - Hiroyuki Torigoe Chapter 12: The Capability Approach, Social Development and Human Rights - Jean-Michel Bonvin Chapter 13: Two Dissident Ways of Reading on Inequality - Ana Esther Cecena Chapter 14: Framing Arab Poverty Knowledge Production: A Socio-bibliometric Study - Sarah El Jamal & Sari Hanafi Part Three: Reforms, Resistance and Alternatives: New Ways Towards Social Justice Chapter 15: The Limits of Reform in Liberal Democracies - Walden Bello Chapter 16: Tensions Between Development, Public Policies to Confront Poverty/Inequality and the Defense of Pluriculturality in South America - Edgardo Lander Chapter 17: Inequitable Access to Citizenship in Democratic States: An Exploration of the Limits of Gendered Social Policies for the Attainment of Gender Inequality - Grace Khunou Chapter 18: Collective Right to Life and New Social Justice: the Case of the Bolivian Indigenous Movement - Paulo Henrique Martins Chapter 19: Demanding Justice: Popular Protests in China - Chih-Jou Jay Chen Chapter 20: Thomas Piketty and the Marikana Massacre - Peter Alexander Chapter 21: From Tekel to Gezi Resistance in Turkey: Possibilities for a Combined Rights Movement - Aylin Topal Chapter 22: Socio-ecological Inequality and the Democratization Process - Jose Esteban Castro
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