Title Property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa / Franklin Obeng-Odoom, University of Helsinki

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 364 pages) Series [Cambridge studies in stratification economics] Cambridge studies in stratification economics. Summary "The Global South is relatively neglected in research about our "compartmentalised world". The volume of publications on inequality has increased five-fold since 1992, but many of these focus on the top one per cent of households located in the Global North (International Social Science Council 2016) much like Thomas Piketty's work (e.g., Piketty, 2014) and others published in leading journals such asSocial Forces (see, for example, Kwon 2016). Yet, both spatial and social inequalities are widespread and increasing within and between groups in Africa and between Africa and the rest of the world (Obeng-Odoom, 2013b, 2014a). So, in this book my focus is on stratification in the "Global South" or what Frantz Fanon (1961) called "the wretched of the earth", their experiences of appalling economic inequalities, the dire implications for society, economy and environment, why this compartmentalization continues to deepen, and what can be done about it. Analytically, the focus on stratification provides a more comprehensive approach to studying the "Global South" because the question of stratification leads to additional questions about inquality in relation to whom, what, where, why and how and, hence, throws the searchlight on the bigger question of "economic backwardness" in the Global South"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 22, 2020) Subject Social stratification -- Africa Equality -- Economic aspects -- Africa Economic development -- Africa Economics -- Sociological aspects. Economic development Economics -- Sociological aspects Equality -- Economic aspects Social stratification Africa. Development economics & emerging economies. Development studies. Economic growth. Social discrimination & equal treatment. Society & culture: general. Society. Africa Form Electronic book LC no. 2019040442 ISBN 9781108590372 1108590373 9781108693899 110869389X

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