Narratives Of Inequality

Author : Melissa Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319599571

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Narratives of Inequality by Melissa Kennedy Pdf

This book reveals the economic motivations underpinning colonial, neocolonial and neoliberal eras of global capitalism that are represented in critiques of inequality in postcolonial fiction. Today’s economic inequality, suffered disproportionately by indigenous and minority groups of postcolonial societies in both developed and developing countries, is a direct outcome of the colonial-era imposition of capitalist structures and practices. The longue durée, world-systems approach in this study reveals repeating patterns and trends in the mechanics of capitalism that create and maintain inequality. As well as this, it reveals the social and cultural beliefs and practices that justify and support inequality, yet equally which resist and condemn it. Through analysis of narrative representations of wealth accumulation and ownership, structures of internal inequality between the rich and the poor within cultural communities, and the psychology of capitalism that engenders particular emotions and behaviour, this study brings postcolonial literary economics to the neoliberal debate, arguing for the important contribution of the imaginary to the pressing issue of economic inequality and its solutions.

Author : Dell Hymes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135745660

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Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative Inequality by Dell Hymes Pdf

This collection of work addresses the contribution that ethnography and linguistics make to education, and the contribution that research in education makes to anthropology and linguistics.; The first section of the book pinpoints characteristics of anthropology that most make a difference to research in education. The second section describes the perspective that is needed if the study of language is to contribute adequately to problems of education and inequality. Finally, the third section takes up discoveries about narrative, which show that young people's narratives may have a depth of form and skill that has gone largely unrecognized.

Author : Kate Crehan
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373742

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Gramsci's Common Sense by Kate Crehan Pdf

Acknowledged as one of the classics of twentieth-century Marxism, Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks contains a rich and nuanced theorization of class that provides insights that extend far beyond economic inequality. In Gramsci's Common Sense Kate Crehan offers new ways to understand the many forms that structural inequality can take, including in regards to race, gender, sexual orientation, and religion. Presupposing no previous knowledge of Gramsci on the part of the reader, she introduces the Prison Notebooks and provides an overview of Gramsci’s notions of subalternity, intellectuals, and common sense, putting them in relation to the work of thinkers such as Bourdieu, Arendt, Spivak, and Said. In the case studies of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements, Crehan theorizes the complex relationships between the experience of inequality, exploitation, and oppression, as well as the construction of political narratives. Gramsci's Common Sense is an accessible and concise introduction to a key Marxist thinker whose works illuminate the increasing inequality in the twenty-first century.

Author : David Grusky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429974090

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The Inequality Reader by David Grusky Pdf

Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors, David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi, have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are generated and how they might be reduced. With thirty new readings, the second edition provides new materials on anti-poverty policies as well as new qualitative readings that make the scholarship more alive, more accessible, and more relevant. Now more than ever, The Inequality Reader is the one-stop compendium of all the must-read pieces, simply the best available introduction to the stratifi cation canon.

Author : Chuck Collins
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781603586832

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Born on Third Base by Chuck Collins Pdf

"With the heart of an agitator and the soul of a storyteller, inequality expert Chuck Collins upends our assumptions about America's deep wealth divide - one that, for the first time in recent history, locks the nation's youth into a future defined by their class and wealth at birth; limits our ability to address crises like climate change; and creates a world that no one, not even the rich, will ultimately want to live in. In [this book], Collins calls for an end to class war, busts the myths that define our views of rich and poor, and offers bold new solutions for bridging the economic divide and re-engaging the wealthy in rebuilding communities for a resilient future."--

Author : John Freeman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780143131038

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Tales of Two Americas by John Freeman Pdf

Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America—including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Russo, Eula Bliss, Karen Russell, and many more America is broken. You don’t need a fistful of statistics to know this. Visit any city, and evidence of our shattered social compact will present itself. From Appalachia to the Rust Belt and down to rural Texas, the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest stretches to unimaginable chasms. Whether the cause of this inequality is systemic injustice, the entrenchment of racism in our culture, the long war on drugs, or immigration policies, it endangers not only the American Dream but our very lives. In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world’s most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a suffering that touches so many people.

Author : Earl Wysong,Robert Perrucci
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442266469

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Deep Inequality by Earl Wysong,Robert Perrucci Pdf

Forbes reports that the richest 1 percent of the world’s population owns nearly half the world’s wealth, and the gap between the richest and poorest of the world only continues to increase. Deep Inequality looks behind these stark statistics to understand not only wealth inequality but also rising disparities in other elements of life—from education to the media. The authors argue that inequality has become so pervasive that it is the new normal. When we do recognize troubling inequality, we look at individual or small-scale problems without understanding the broader structural issues that shape the economy, the global political system, and more. Only by understanding the structural forces at play can we recognize the deep divisions in our society and work for meaningful change. Deep Inequality explains the changing landscape of inequality to help readers see society in a new way.

Author : Carlos Gradín,Murray Leibbrandt,Finn Tarp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198863960

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Inequality in the Developing World by Carlos Gradín,Murray Leibbrandt,Finn Tarp Pdf

Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty. For these reasons, it underpins intense public and academic debates and has become a dominant policy concern within many countries and in all multilateral agencies. It is at the core of the 17 goals of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This book contributes to this important discussion by presenting assessments of the measurement and analysis of global inequality by leading inequality scholars, aligning these to comprehensive reviews of inequality trends in five of the world's largest developing countries - Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa.

Author : Dell Hymes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:847184856

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Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative Inequality by Dell Hymes Pdf

Author : Chuck Collins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509522545

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Is Inequality in America Irreversible? by Chuck Collins Pdf

We are living in a time of extreme inequality: America’s three richest people now own as much wealth as the bottom half of the population. Although most accept that this is grotesque, many politicians accept it as irreversible. In this book, leading US researcher and activist Chuck Collins succinctly diagnoses the drivers of rampant inequality, arguing that such disparities have their roots in 40 years of the powerful rigging the system in their favor. He proposes a far-reaching policy agenda, analyzes the barriers to progress, and shows how transformative local campaigns can become a national movement for change. This book is a powerful analysis of how the plutocracy sold us a toxic lie, and what we can do to reverse inequality.

Author : Youyenn Teo,Kian Woon Kwok
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Equality
ISBN : 9811405956

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This is what Inequality Looks Like by Youyenn Teo,Kian Woon Kwok Pdf

Author : Carles Lalueza-Fox
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262046787

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Inequality by Carles Lalueza-Fox Pdf

How genomics reveals deep histories of inequality, going back many thousands of years. Inequality is an urgent global concern, with pundits, politicians, academics, and best-selling books all taking up its causes and consequences. In Inequality, Carles Lalueza-Fox offers an entirely new perspective on the subject, examining the genetic marks left by inequality on humans throughout history. Lalueza-Fox describes genetic studies, made possible by novel DNA sequencing technologies, that reveal layers of inequality in past societies, manifested in patterns of migration, social structures, and funerary practices. Through their DNA, ancient skeletons have much to tell us, yielding anonymous stories of inequality, bias, and suffering. Lalueza-Fox, a leader in paleogenomics, offers the deep history of inequality. He explores the ancestral shifts associated with migration and describes the gender bias unearthed in these migrations—the brutal sexual asymmetries, for example, between male European explorers and the women of Latin America that are revealed by DNA analysis. He considers social structures, and the evidence that high social standing was inherited—the ancient world was not a meritocracy. He untangles social and genetic factors to consider whether wealth is an advantage in reproduction, showing why we are more likely to be descended from a king than a peasant. And he explores the effects of ancient inequality on the human gene pool. Marshaling a range of evidence, Lalueza-Fox shows that understanding past inequalities is key to understanding present ones.

Author : Paul V. Kroskrity,Anthony K. Webster
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780253019653

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The Legacy of Dell Hymes by Paul V. Kroskrity,Anthony K. Webster Pdf

The accomplishments and enduring influence of renowned anthropologist Dell Hymes are showcased in these essays by leading practitioners in the field. Hymes (1927–2009) is arguably best known for his pioneering work in ethnopoetics, a studied approach to Native verbal art that elucidates cultural significance and aesthetic form. As these essays amply demonstrate, nearly six decades later ethnopoetics and Hymes's focus on narrative inequality and voice provide a still valuable critical lens for current research in anthropology and folklore. Through ethnopoetics, so much can be understood in diverse cultural settings and situations: gleaning the voices of individual Koryak storytellers and aesthetic sensibilities from century-old wax cylinder recordings; understanding the similarities and differences between Apache life stories told 58 years apart; how Navajo punning and an expressive device illuminate the work of a Navajo poet; decolonizing Western Mono and Yokuts stories by bringing to the surface the performances behind the texts written down by scholars long ago; and keenly appreciating the potency of language revitalization projects among First Nations communities in the Yukon and northwestern California. Fascinating and topical, these essays not only honor a legacy but also point the way forward.

Author : David Grusky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429963018

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The Inequality Reader by David Grusky Pdf

Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors, David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi, have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are generated and how they might be reduced. With thirty new readings, the second edition provides new materials on anti-poverty policies as well as new qualitative readings that make the scholarship more alive, more accessible, and more relevant. Now more than ever, The Inequality Reader is the one-stop compendium of all the must-read pieces, simply the best available introduction to the stratifi cation canon.

Author : David B. Grusky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429963193

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Social Stratification by David B. Grusky Pdf

The book covers the research on economic inequality, including the social construction of racial categories, the uneven and stalled gender revolution, and the role of new educational forms and institutions in generating both equality and inequality.