Global Handbook of Inequality

This handbook provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive review of the literature on inequality. It provides comprehensive overviews of the main theoretical traditions, concepts, dimensions, methodologies and contemporary debates around inequality as well as outlines of the situation of inequality in the world regions. Each entry covers the most relevant literature on the respective topic and gives an introduction to the key discussions. This authoritative reference work includes contributions from established and upcoming scholars based all over the world, and is truly global in perspective. It serves as a first introduction to the study of a particular field or issue related to inequality. The distinctive aspect of this handbook is its emphasis on the lived realities of inequality, its relational and cultural aspects, as well as the economic and quantitative aspects. 

This is a must-read reference volume for students, researchers and professionals interested in thistopic across the spectrum of the social sciences.   

Economic Process and World Regions.- Exploitation and Inequality.- Karl Marx and Inequalities of Social Class.- Angela Davis on a New Kind of Universality.- Social Inequality in Africa.- Wealth and Inequality.

Surinder S Jodhka is Professor of Sociology at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He researches on different dimensions of social inequalities, contemporary dynamics of caste, agrarian change, rural India, and the political sociology of community identities. His recent publications include The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21st Century. Aleph 2023; The Oxford Handbook of Caste. OUP 2023 (ed with Jules Naudet); India’s Villages in the 21st Century: Revisits and Revisions OUP 2019 (edited with Edward Simpson); Mapping the Elite: Power, Privilege and Inequality. OUP 2019 (edited with Jules Naudet). A Handbook of Rural India. 2018 Orient Blackswan (ed.). Caste in Contemporary India Routledge 2015; Caste: Oxford India Short Introductions. OUP 2012. He is editor of the Routledge India book series on ‘Religion and Citizenship’ and co-editor of OUP book series on ‘Exploring India’s Elite’. He is a recipient of the ICSSR-Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists and Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies (2024). 

Boike Rehbein (1965-2022) studied philosophy, sociology and history in Freiburg, Frankfurt am Main, Göttingen, Berlin and Paris. He was the director of the Global Studies Programme and a professor of Society and Transformation in Asia and Africa at Humboldt University of Berlin. His work focused on the structure and genesis of social inequality, symbolic forms of domination, genealogy of capitalist society as a form of domination, capitalist globalization and questions of understanding and theory formation in a multipolar world. His recent publications include Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies (Palgrave 2011), Inequality in Capitalist Societies (with Surinder S. Jodhka and Jessé de Souza; Routledge 2018), Critical Theory after the Rise of the Global South: Kaleidoscopic Dialectic (Routledge 2018), Die kapitalistische Gesellschaft (2021), and Die globalisierte Welt (with Vincent Houben, 2022).