Based on theoretical developments in research on world-systems analysis, transnational migration, postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, whilst considering continuities of inequality patterns in the context of colonial and postcolonial realities, Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism proposes an original framework for the study of the long-term reproduction of inequalities under global capitalism. With attention to the critical assessment of both Marxist and Weberian perspectives, this book examines the wider implications of transferring classical approaches to inequality to a twenty-first century context, calling for a reconceptualization of inequality that is both theoretically informed and methodologically consistent, and able to cater for the implications of shifts from national and Western structures to global structures.

Manuela Boatc¿ is Professor of Sociology at Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany. She is co-editor of Decolonizing European Sociology; and Global, Multiple and Postcolonial Modernities; and author of From Neoevolutionism to World-Systems Analysis.

Introduction What is New about Global Inequalities?; Part I Marx and Political-Economy Approaches; Chapter 1 Class vs. Other: Coloniality as Anomaly in Karl Marx; Chapter 2 World-Systems Analysis and the Feminist Subsistence Perspective; Chapter 3 Orientalism vs. Occidentalism: The Decolonial Perspective; Chapter 4 The World-Historical Model: Relational Inequalities and Global Processes; Part II Weber and Historical-Comparative Models; Chapter 5 The West vs. the Rest: Modernity as Uniqueness in Max Weber; Chapter 6 Citizenship as Social Closure: Weberian Perspectives and Beyond; Chapter 7 After Uniqueness: Entangled Modernities and Multiple Europes; Chapter 8 Conclusions: For a Sociology of Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism;