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"Inequality is currently gaining considerable attention in academic, policy, and media circles. From Thomas Piketty to Robert Putnam, there is no shortage of economic, sociological, or political analyses. But what does anthropology, with its focus on the qualitative character of relationships between people, have to offer? Drawing on current scholarship and illustrative ethnographic case studies, McGill argues that anthropology is particularly well suited to interrogating global inequality, not just within nations, but across nations as well. The book is designed to be used flexibly in a variety of undergraduate classes--from introductory cultural anthropology, to courses on globalization, economic and political anthropology, and inequality. Brief, accessibly written, and peppered with vivid ethnographic examples that bring contemporary research to life, Global Inequality is a unique offering for undergraduate anthropology courses."--

Equality. --- Ethnology

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"Comment rendre intelligibles les plus extrêmes des injustices actuelles à partir d'elles-mêmes, des inégalités liées à la pauvreté ou bien celles qui engagent des risques et des violences ? À rebours d'une démarche qui continuerait de voir une réponse suffisante dans de grands principes atemporels et universels, qui définissent des idéaux à leur opposer, ce livre s'emploie à cerner les limites des théories de la justice, ce à quoi se sont résumées, depuis près de cinquante ans, la plupart des approches philosophiques des inégalités. Cette réflexion désidéalisée montre comment les inégalisations extrémisées fournissent comme une loupe qui grossit les ressorts de l'injustice. Après avoir proposé une cartographie critique des théories de la justice, les auteurs appliquent tour à tour leur démarche aux inégalités de genre, aux inégalités ethnoculturelles et à celles liées au changement climatique, ainsi qu'à leurs intersections les unes avec les autres et avec les données économiques. Les violences, les génocides, les migrations ouvrent alors des voies d'accès à de possibles remédiations aux inégalités injustifiables. Cet ouvrage n'a pas la naïveté d'améliorer le monde. Il a l'audace de transformer la philosophie politique en la rendant plus productrice d'intelligibilité et plus créatrice de normativités nouvelles, quand l'humanité continue de s'infliger à elle-même des maux que nous n'imaginerions pas si nous n'y étions confrontés avec brutalité par le monde tel qu'il est."

Justice. --- Justice (Philosophy) --- Equality.

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Equality. --- Poverty. --- Social history.

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"Intersectionality theory has emerged over the past thirty years as a way to think about the avenues by which inequalities (most often dealing with, but not limited to, race, gender, class and sexuality) are produced. Rather than seeing such categories as signaling distinct identities that can be adopted, imposed or rejected, intersectionality theory considers the logic by which each of these categories is socially constructed as well as how they operate within the diffusion of power relations. In other words, social and political power are conferred through categories of identity, and these identities bear vastly material effects. Rather than look at inequalities as a relationship between those at the center and those on the margins, intersectionality maps the relative ways in which identity politics create power. Though intersectionality theory has emerged as a highly influential school of thought in ethnic studies, gender studies, law, political science, sociology and psychology, no scholarship to date exists on the evolution of the theory. In the absence of a comprehensive intellectual history of the theory, it is often discussed in vague, ahistorical terms. And while scholars have called for greater specificity and attention to the historical foundations of intersectionality theory, their idea of the history to be included is generally limited to the particular currents in the United States. This book seeks to remedy the vagueness and murkiness attributed to intersectionality by attending to the historical, geographical, and cross-disciplinary myopia afflicting current intersectionality scholarship. This comprehensive intellectual history is an agenda-setting work for the theory"-- "Though intersectionality theory has emerged as a highly influential school of thought in ethnic studies, gender studies, law, political science, sociology and psychology, no scholarship to date exists on the evolution of the theory. This book seeks to remedy the gap by attending to the historical, geographical, and cross-disciplinary myopia afflicting current intersectionality scholarship. This comprehensive intellectual history will be an agenda-setting work for the theory"--

Prejudices. --- Discrimination. --- Equality. --- Group identity.

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In the last decades, inequality of opportunity has been extensively studied by economists on the assumption that, in addition to being normatively undesirable, it can be related to low potential for growth. This paper evaluates inequality of opportunity and the different sources of unequal opportunities in 11 Sub-Saharan Africa countries. The results indicate that the portion of total inequality that can be attributed to exogenous circumstances-that is, circumstances outside the control of individuals control-is between 30 percent and 40 percent in the countries considered. The results also indicate a positive association between total consumption inequality and inequality of opportunity. Finally, this paper addresses a number of methodological issues that typically arise when measuring inequality of opportunity with imperfect data, which is the typical case in developing countries.

Consumption Inequality --- Equality of Opportunity