Facing An Unequal World

Raquel Sosa Elízaga has degrees in Sociology, Latin American Studies, and PhD in History, National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has been Full Time Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, since January, 1976. Past positions held include:- Vice President of Program of the International Sociological Association, from 2010 to 2014- A member of its Program Committee from 1998 to 2002- A member of its Executive Committee, from 2006 to 2010- President of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología, from 1985 to 1987- A member of its Council of Ex Presidents, since 2013- Secretary of Social Development and of Culture in the Mexico City Government, from 2000 to 2005, and from 2005 to 2006. Her publications include Educación y exclusión (UNAM, 2017), “Reflexiones sobre la tradición sociológica, los dilemas de nuestro tiempo y el porvenir” en Castañeda, Dávila et al, El futuro de las ciencias sociales en un entorno globalizado (UNAM, 2017); Hacia la recuperación de la soberanía educativa en América Latina: conciencia crítica y programa (UNAM/CLACSO, 2012); Pensar con cabeza propia. Educación y pensamiento crítico en América Latina (CLACSO, 2011); Cuadernos del pensamiento crítico latinoamericano, Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales 45(4) (2011); Co author with Irene Sánchez, América Latina: los desafíos del pensamiento crítico (Siglo XXI, 2004).

Raquel Sosa has assembled an incredibly complete set of analyses of inequality written by a range of scholars about a wide range of issues. Incomparable essential reading.

• Chapter 1: Introduction - Raquel Sosa ElízagaPart One: Capitalism and Inequality: Globalized Economies and Fractured SocietiesChapter 2: When Extractive Logics Rule: Proliferating Expulsions - Saskia SassenChapter 3: Resilience, Resistance and Rewiring the World Economy: A View from the South - Ari SitasChapter 4: Stratification Requiescat in Pace: Paradigm Shift: From ′Stratification′ and Mobility to Inequality - Göran TherbornPart Two: Economic, Territorial and Social Dimensions of InequalityChapter 5: Globalization, Uneven Economic Development, Inequality and Poverty: The Interactive Effects Between Position in the Modern World System and Domestic Stratification Systems - Harold KerboChapter 6: Poverty and Inequality in the Arab World - Habibul Haque KhondkerChapter 7: Amazonia: Territorial Tensions in Progress - Carlos Walter Porto-GoncalvesChapter 8: Climate Change and Vulnerable Urban Groups: Comparative Analysis of Taipei and Kaohsiung - Keng-Ming Hsu & Hsin-Huang Michael HsiaoChapter 9: The Coming of the New Class Society: Gender Matters - Chizuko UenoChapter 10: Duel of the Dualisms: Production and Reproduction Reconfiguring - Susan A. McDanielChapter 11: The Historic Environment in Opposition to Social Inequalities - Hiroyuki TorigoeChapter 12: The Capability Approach, Social Development and Human Rights - Jean-Michel BonvinChapter 13: Two Dissident Ways of Reading on Inequality - Ana Esther CeceñaChapter 14: Framing Arab Poverty Knowledge Production: A Socio-bibliometric Study - Sarah El Jamal & Sari HanafiPart Three: Reforms, Resistance and Alternatives: New Ways Towards Social JusticeChapter 15: The Limits of Reform in Liberal Democracies - Walden BelloChapter 16: Tensions Between Development, Public Policies to Confront Poverty/Inequality and the Defense of Pluriculturality in South America - Edgardo LanderChapter 17: Inequitable Access to Citizenship in Democratic States: An Exploration of the Limits of Gendered Social Policies for the Attainment of Gender Inequality - Grace KhunouChapter 18: Collective Right to Life and New Social Justice: the Case of the Bolivian Indigenous Movement - Paulo Henrique MartinsChapter 19: Demanding Justice: Popular Protests in China - Chih-Jou Jay ChenChapter 20: Thomas Piketty and the Marikana Massacre - Peter AlexanderChapter 21: From Tekel to Gezi Resistance in Turkey: Possibilities for a Combined Rights Movement - Aylin TopalChapter 22: Socio-ecological Inequality and the Democratization Process - José Esteban Castro