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Book SynopsisComprising a collection of interview essays with nineteen public intellectuals and scholars from around the world, this book reflects on some of the most pressing questions of our age: what is global inequality; what causes it; and how should we deal with it? Leading figures within the fields of History, Sociology, Economics, Anthropology and Postcolonial Studies, shed light on how their personal backgrounds, places of work, and hometowns have shaped their views on global inequality. We learn about the causes of global inequality, the historical factors that have shaped the world into an unequal place, and the challenges that humanity is confronted with in the face of the widening gap between the poor and the rich. Bringing together voices from the Global North and South, this book helps us to think more broadly about inequality and deepens our understanding of how this long-lasting phenomenon is, and has been, experienced across the globe.
Table of Contents1. Introduction; Christian Olaf Christiansen, Oliver Bugge Hunt, Melanie Lindbjerg Machado-Guichon, Sofía Mercader Priyanka Jha
Part I. Deep Roots: Legacies of Imperialism and Colonialism2. Global Equality and Inequality: Notes for a New History; Siep Sturrman
3. Poverty and Ideology: Historic Pathways to Global Inequality; Julia McClure
4. Anti-Imperalism and Global Inequality; Göran Therborn
5. The Colonial Matrix of Power as a Wakeup Call; Walter Mignolo
6. From Third World to First, and Back Again: Colonial Logics and Global Inequality; Kho Tung-Yi
Part II. Unequal Entanglements: A Capitalist World System7. Global Finance and Global Inequality: An Analysis Built on Global Measurement; James K. Galbraith
8. How the Global Movement of Money and People Turns the World Upside Down; Alastair Greig
9. The Need to Centre Imperialism in Our Study of Global Inequality; Ingrid Kvangraven
10. Global Inequality and the Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism; Gilbert Achcar
11. The Unequal Effects of Climate Change; Patrick Bond
Part III. The Inertia of Hierarchies: Class, Caste, Race and Gender12. Reflecting on Global Inequality through my Experience of Inequality in India; Krishnas Swamy
13. Writing about Poverty and Caste as a Novelist and Cultural Critic; Subramanian Shankar
14. From the Personal to the Global; Arabo Ewinyu
15. Global Solidarities against Global Inequality; Manushi Yami Bhattarai
Part IV. Thinking Beyond Economics: The Politics of Inequalities16. From Chile to New York: Inequality, Corruption and Ogliarchic Domination; Camila Vergara
17. Thinking about Global Inequality: From Buenos Aires to Belgrade; Agustín Cosovschi
18. Making the Familiar Strange: Anthropological Reflections on Global Inequality; Tania Li
19. Mauritius in an Unequal World; Sheila Bunwaree.
