Globalization and Emerging Societies: Development and Inequality

✍ Scribed by Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Boike Rehbein, eds.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 133
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the setting of twenty-first century globalization this volume focuses on emerging societies, rather than emerging markets or powers. Adopting a sociological perspective, each chapter focuses on development and social inequality in emerging societies, with contributions from renowned international scholars.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 4
Contributors......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Introduction 1: Development and Inequality
Jan Nederveen Pieterse......Page 8
1 Twenty-first Century Globalization: Global Sociology Jan Nederveen Pieterse
......Page 14
2 Rise of the Global South and the Emerging Contours of a New World Order
Ravi Arvind Palat......Page 26
3 Are More People Becoming Vulnerable to Poverty? Evidence from Grassroots Investigations in Five Countries Anirudh
Krishna......Page 37
4 Globalization and Development: Learning from Debates in China James H. Mittelman
......Page 49
5 Internal Migration in Mainland China: Regional and World-Systemic Aspects
Ganesh K. Trichur......Page 59
6 Paradigm Shift in India: Analysing the Impact of Liberalization and Globalization
Anand Kumar......Page 72
7 Hierarchical Integration: The Dollar Economy and the Rupee Economy
Anirudh Krishna and Jan Nederveen Pieterse......Page 78
8 Inequality, Culture and Globalization in Emerging Societies: Reflections on the
Brazilian Case Joanildo A. Burity......Page 87
9 Africa's Engagement with China: Perpetuating the Class Project?
Sanusha Naidu and Johanna Jansson......Page 98
10 The Renaissance of Society: From Emerging Powers to Emerging Societies in a European Perspective
Hermann Schwengel......Page 109
Bibliography......Page 120
Index......Page 131