perspectives on global injustice and inequality
Edición de la obra Lives in the balance
| Autor | Pat Lauderdale, Randall Amster |
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| Editorial | Brill |
| Fecha de publicación | 1997 |
| Lugar | Leiden, New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 154 |
| ISBN-10 | 9004108750 |
| OCLC | 36746461 |
| LCCN | 97016211 |
| Serie | International studies in sociology and social anthropology, · v. 66 |
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We find ourselves in a world that reflects a tension between the totalizing discourses of global corporate capitalism and representative democracy on the one hand, and the contingent, fragmentary nature of post-colonial life on the other. How (indeed, whether) this dialectic will be reconciled in the new millennium is not merely a question for academic consideration, but has real implications for the lives of people in the 'developing' world who are caught at the interstices of these conflicting forces. What a comparative, critical sociological perspective can provide is a window into the souls of people struggling for self-determination, equality, and justice. It is in this spirit that we present this work focusing on the study of injustice and inequality in the world system.