000			02225 a2200217 4500
020			_a9781138106789
040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a330.905 _bG51
245			_aGlobal inequalities in world-systems perspective _btheoretical debates and methodological innovations _cedited by Manuela Boatca, Andrea Komlosy, Hans-Heinrich Nolte
260			_bRoutledge _c2018 _aNew York
300			_axv, 205p
520			_aDuring its 500-year history, the modern world-system has seen several shifts in hegemony. Yet, since the decline of the U.S. in the 1970s, no single core power has attained a hegemonic position in an increasingly polarized world. As income inequalities have become more pronounced in core countries, especially in the U.S. and the U.K., global inequalities emerged as a "new" topic of social scientific scholarship, ignoring the constant move toward polarization that has been characteristic of the entire modern world-system. At the same time, the rise of new states (most notably, the BRICS) and the relative economic growth of particular regions (especially East Asia) have prompted speculations about the next hegemon that largely disregard both the longue durée of hegemonic shifts and the constraints that regional differentiations place on the concentration of capital and geopolitical power in one location. Authors in this book place the issue of rising inequalities at the center of their analyses. They explore the concept and reality of semiperipheries in the 21st century world-system, the role of the state and of transnational migration in current patterns of global stratification, types of catching-up development and new spatial configurations of inequality in Europe’s Eastern periphery as well as the prospects for the Global Left in the new systemic order. The book links novel theoretical debates on the rise of global inequalities to methodologically innovative approaches to the urgent task of addressing them.
650			_aSociology &​ Social policy
650			_aInternational political economy
650			_aGlobalization
700			_aBoatca, Manuela [ed.]
700			_aKomlosy, Andrea [ed.]
700			_aNolte, Hans-Heinrich [ed.]
942			_cBK
999			_c560573 _d560573