The Killing Fields of Inequality

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Beschreibung

Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in the world. This book shows that inequality is literally a killing field, with millions of people dying premature deaths because of it. These lethal effects of inequality operate not only in the poor world, but also, and increasingly, in rich countries, as Therborn demonstrates with data ranging from the US, the UK, Finland and elsewhere. Even when they survive inequality, millions of human lives are stunted by the humiliations and degradations of inequality linked to gender, race and ethnicity, and class.

But this book is about experiences of equalization too, highlighting moments and processes of equalization in different parts of the world - from India and other parts of Asia, from the Americas, as well as from Europe. South Africa illustrates the toughest challenges. The killing fields of inequality can be avoided: this book shows how.

Clear, succinct, wide-ranging in scope and empirical in its approach, this timely book by one of the world's leading social scientists will appeal to a wide readership.

Über den Autor

Göran Therborn is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and author of The World: A Beginner's Guide.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures page vi

Tables vii

Introduction 1

I. The Fields 5

1. Human, Nasty and Short: Life under Inequality 7

2. Behind the Doors of Exclusion 20

II. Theory 35

3. Theoretical Cross-Draught 37

4. Three Kinds of (In)Equality and Their Production 48

III. History 69

5. Inequality and the Rise of Modernity 71

6. A Historical Six-Pack: Three Inequalities in

Global and National History 79

IV. Today's Unequal World 101

7. Current World Patterns and Dynamics of Inequalities 103

8. Three Puzzles of Contemporary Inequalities 132

V. Possible Futures 151

9. Overcoming Inequality - Yesterday and Tomorrow 153

10. The Decisive Battlefields of Future (In)Equality 166

References 185

Index 202

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Figures page viTables viiIntroduction 1I. The Fields 51. Human Nasty and Short: Life under Inequality 72. Behind the Doors of Exclusion 20II. Theory 353. Theoretical Cross-Draught 374. Three Kinds of (In)Equality and Their Production 48III. History 695.
ISBN-13:	9780745662596
ISBN-10:	0745662595
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Therborn, Goran
Hersteller:	John Wiley & Sons John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 136 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Goran Therborn
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.11.2013
Gewicht:	0,297 kg

Artikel-ID: 105604496