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Taylor & Francis Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism 2016 Edition by Manuela Boatca
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 reconceptualisation 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. Engaging with approaches to the study of class, gender, racial and ethnic inequalities at the global level, this innovative work adopts a relational perspective in the study of social inequalities that is able to reveal how historical interdependencies between world regions have translated as processes of inequality production and reproduction. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of sociology, political and social theory and anthropology concerned with questions of globalisation and inequality. Table of contents :- Contents: Introduction: what is new about global inequalities? Part I Marx and Political-Economy Approaches: Class vs. other: coloniality as anomaly in Karl Marx; World-systems analysis and the feminist subsistence perspective; Orientalism vs. occidentalism: the decolonial perspective; The world-historical model: relational inequalities and global processes. Part II Weber and Historical-Comparative Models: The West vs. the rest: modernity as uniqueness in Max Weber; Citizenship as social closure: Weberian perspectives and beyond; After uniqueness: entangled modernities and multiple Europes; Conclusions: for a sociology of global inequalities beyond occidentalism. References; Index.