Beyond Classical Concepts of Social Inequality: A Postcolonial Perspective on Global Inequality and Stratification

Beyond Classical Concepts of Social Inequality: A Postcolonial Perspective on Global Inequality and Stratification
ISBN-10
1409442802
ISBN-13
9781409442806
Category
Political Science
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2014-06-28
Publisher
Lund Humphries Publishers
Author
Manuela Boatcă

Description

Based on theoretical developments in research on world-systems analysis, transnational migration, postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, whilst considering continuities of inequality patterns in the context of colonial and postcolonial realities, Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism proposes an original framework for the study of the long-term reproduction of inequalities under global capitalism. With attention to the critical assessment of both Marxist and Weberian perspectives, this book examines the wider implications of transferring classical approaches to inequality to a twenty-first century context, calling for a reconceptualization of inequality that is both theoretically informed and methodologically consistent, and able to cater for the implications of shifts from national and Western structures to global structures.

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