Global Entangled Inequalities

Taylor & Francis

Global Entangled InequalitiesConceptual Debates and Evidence from Latin America\nAuthor(s): Elizabeth Jelin, Renata Motta, Srgio Costa\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138740600, 978-1138740600\nSynopsis\nThis book presents studies from across Latin America to take up the challenge of exploring the plurality of social inequalities from a global perspective. Accordingly, it identifies the structural forces of social inequalities on a world scale as they shape asymmetries observed in a wide array of phenomena, such as racial and gender inequality, urbanization, migration, commodity production, indigenous mobilization, ecological conflicts, and the \""new middle class\"". A rich contribution to the study of the interconnections between the global social structure and multiple local and national hierarchies, Global Entangled Inequalities brings consistently together a variety of conceptual approaches, ranging from ethn.