By Christian Karner, Bernhard Weicht
Bringing jointly contributions from a world workforce of social scientists, this assortment examines diversified crises, either historic and modern, which implicate marketplace forces, widening inequalities, social exclusion, different types of resistance, and ideological polarisation. The Commonalities of world Crises bargains rigorously researched case reports which stretch throughout huge geographical distances- from Egypt to the U.S. and from northern, significant, jap and southern Europe to South the US- and covers well timed matters together with human rights, slavery, care, migration, racism, and the a ways correct. the quantity demonstrates that such assorted settings and numerous matters are characterised by means of a typical stress within which the crises that spread round pressures of widening marketization and commodification are met by means of the (re)building or re-assertion of varied groups, and competing politics of cohesion and nostalgia.
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