Introduction / Boike Rehbein -- Part I. Regional Inequalities: 1. The persistence of sociocultures and inequality in contemporary Southeast Asia / Vincent Houben and Boike Rehbein; 2. Globalization and social inequality in Asia / Habibul Haque Khondker; 3. Inequality, exclusion and poverty in Latin America: the vast social debt of neoliberalism / Raquel Sosa Elízaga -- Part II. National Inequalities: 4. Are the Brazilian lower classes universal?: towards a critical theory of modernization / Jessé Souza; 5. The militarization of urban marginality: lessons from the Brazilian metropolis / Loïc Wacquant; 6. Global expansion of capitalism, inequality and social movements: the Iranian case / Simin Fadaee; 7. Outward bound, tangled nightmares: rereading globalization in contemporary Nigeria / Olutayo Charles Adesina; 8. Higher education in Russia: is there a way out of a meoliberal impasse? / Artemy Magun -- Part III. Transnational Inequalities: 9. Emerging powers development, global economic crisis and value chains restructuring / Gilberto Antonelli; 10. Global and national elites in South America: limited transnationalization processes and the persistence of inequality / Alejandro Pelfini; 11. Access of highly-skilled migrants to transnational labor markets: is class formation transcending national divides? / Anja Weiss and Samuel N.-A. Mensah; 12. Transnational inequalities, transnational responses: the politicization of migrant rights in Asia / Nicola Piper and Stefan Rother; 13. Global inequalities: local hierarchies : Peruvian migrants' labor niches and occupational mobility in Chile / Claudia Mora; 14. Conclusion: globalization and inequality / Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Summary
"This volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new theory of inequality beyond the nation state and beyond Eurocentrism"-- Provided by publisher
