Globalization and Inequalities : Complexity and Contested Modernities

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ISBN: 9780803985179 | 0803985177
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Copyright: 8/5/2009

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This groundbreaking book places globalisation, difference and gender at the heart of social theory, and demonstrates the powerful capacity of complexity theory to enable innovative social analysis. The author challenges social theory to incorporate gender and other forms of difference and inequality, rejecting the practice of treating gender as a separate category of analysis and demonstrates the relevance of gender and difference for central issues in contemporary social theory and analysis.

Introduction: Progress and modernities
What is Progress?
More money or longer life?
Progress as a contested project
Economic development
Equality
Human Rights
Human development, well-being and capabilities
Competing projects: neoliberalism and social democracy
Contesting conceptions of progress
Conclusions
Multiple Complex Inequalities
Introduction
Multiple and intersecting inequalities
Complex inequalities: difference, inequality and progress
Modernity? Postmodernity? Not yet Modern? Varieties of Modernity?
Introduction
Modernity or postmodernity?
Late, second or liquid modernity?
Multiple modernities?
Not yet modern?
Varieties of modernity
Defining modernity
Globalization
Introduction
Globalization as the erosion of distinctive and separate societies
Resistant to globalization
Already global
Coevolution of global processes with trajectories of development
Implications of globalization for social theory
Complexity Theory
The Book
Theorising multiple social systems
Introduction
Multiple Inequalities and Intersectionality
Regimes and Domains
System and Its Environment: Over-Lapping, Non-Saturating, Non-Nested Systems
Societalisation not Societies
Emergence and Projects
Bodies, Technologies and the Social
Path Dependency
Co-evolution of Complex Adaptive Systems in Changing Fitness Landscapes
Wave
Conclusions
Economies
Introduction
Redefining the Economy
Domestic Labour as Labour
State Welfare as part of the Economy
What are Economic Inequalities? What is Progress in the Economy?
From Pre-Modern to Modern: The Second Great Transformation
Global Processes and Economic Inequalities
What global processes?
Country Processes
Summary
Varieties of Political Economy
Varieties of employment relations
Varieties of Welfare Provision
Critical turning points into varieties of political economy
Conclusions
Polities
Introduction
Reconceptualising Types of Polities
Introduction
States
Nations
Nation-States?
Organised religions
Empires
Hegemon
Global political institutions
Polities Overlap and do not Politically Saturate a Territory
Democracy
Democracy and modernity
Redefining democracy
The development of democracy
Conclusions
Violence
Introduction
Developing the Ontology of Violence
Modernity and Violence
Path Dependency in Trajections of Violence
Global
Conclusions
Civil societies
Introduction
Theorising Civil Society
Modernity and Civil Society
Civil Society Projects
Global Civil Societies and Waves
Examples of waves
Conclusions
Regimes of complex inequality
Introduction
Beyond Class Regimes
Gender Regimes
Ethnic Regimes
Further Regimes of Complex Inequalities
Disability
Sexual orientation
Intersecting Regimes of Complex Inequality
Conclusions
Varieties of modernity
Introduction
Neoliberal and Social Democratic Varieties of Modernity
Path Dependency at the Economy/Polity Nexus?
Welfare provision
Conclusions on welfare
Employment regulation
Inequality
Conclusions on political economy
Path Dependency at the Violence Nexus
Modernity and path dependency
Indicators
Development, inequality and violence
Gendered violence
Path dependency of the violence nexus in OECD countries
Violence, economic inequality and the polity/economy nexus
Conclusions on violence
Gender Regime
Public and domestic gender regimes
Development and the public gender regime
Domestic and public gender regimes and gender inequality
Varieties of public gender regimes
Democracy and Inequality
Conclusions
Measuring progress
Introduction
Economic Development
Equality
Economic inequality
Global economic inequality
Beyond the household
Economic inequalities and flows
Economic inequalities in summary
Inequalities in non-economic domains
Democracy
Human Rights
Human Development, Well-Being and Capabilities
Key Indicator Sets: What Indicators; What Underlying Concepts of Progress?
Extending the Frameworks and Indicators of Progress: Where do Environmental
Sustainability and Violence Fit?
Environmental sustainability
Violence
Achievement of Visions of Progress: Comparing Neoliberalism and Social Democracy
Economic development: neoliberalism vs. social democracy
Equality: neoliberalism vs. social democracy
Human rights: neoliberalism vs. social democracy
Human development, well-being and capabilities: neoliberalism vs. social democracy
Trade offs or complementary?
Conclusions
Comparative paths through modernity: neoliberalism and social democracy
Introduction
Political Economy
Introduction
US
Sweden
UK
Ireland
Conclusions
Violence
US
Sweden
UK
Ireland
Conclusion
Gender Transformations: The Emergence of Employed Women as the New Champions of Social Democracy
Employed women as the new champions of social democracy
Dampeners and Catalysts of Economic Growth: War and Gender Regime
Transformations
Conclusions
Contested futures
Introduction
Financial and Economic Crisis 2007-9
Contesting Hegemons and the Future of the World
Conclusions
Introduction
The Challenge of Complex Inequalities and Globalization to Social Theory
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