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Political economy of inequalities


Dozent/in Balthazar de Robiano
Veranstaltungsart Masterseminar
Code HS231304
Semester Herbstsemester 2023
Durchführender Fachbereich Politikwissenschaft
Studienstufe Bachelor Master
Termin/e Mi, 20.09.2023, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, HS 8
Fr, 13.10.2023, 09:15 - 17:00 Uhr, 3.B52
Sa, 14.10.2023, 09:15 - 17:00 Uhr, 3.B52
Fr, 27.10.2023, 09:15 - 17:00 Uhr, 3.B52
Sa, 28.10.2023, 09:15 - 17:00 Uhr, 3.B52
Umfang 2 Semesterwochenstunden
Turnus Blockveranstaltung
Inhalt

This seminar will engage with the topic of economic inequalities in the tradition of political economy. Therefore, it will engage first with the observed trends in economic and social inequalities before discussing the potential political, social, and economic causes sustaining such trends. The seminar will pay particular consideration to the diverse forms of inequalities and insist on the interplay between national and global inequalities as well as interpersonal and group-level inequalities. It will engage with the mechanisms of inequalities’ social reproduction and present the normative theoretical debates surrounding the concept of equity in a liberal meritocracy. Building on the precedent discussions, it will conclude by presenting another perspective on inequalities, that of their political consequences.

Schlagworte Gender/Diversity
E-Learning https://lms.uzh.ch/url/RepositoryEntry/17430413682
Lernziele The seminar aims to provide students with the capacities to a) understand the current scientific consensi and dissensi regarding trends in inequalities and their causes which have profoundly changed in the last decade, b) critically engage with state-of-the-art scientific literature on inequalities and c) understand the normative grounds in debates surrounding inequalities. Hence, it is directed not only at students interested in future academic research in the field of inequalities, but to all students interested in a scientific understanding of a major global social changes and in a subject that has come to prominence in the public debate around the notion of justice.
Sprache Englisch
Anmeldung ***Important*** In order to acquire credits, it is mandatory to register for the course via the UniPortal. Registration opens two weeks before and ends two weeks after the start of the semester. Registrations and cancellations are no longer possible after this period. The exact registration dates can be found here: www.unilu.ch/ksf/semesterdaten
Prüfung Final paper (either a research paper or a research design) / Class presentation.
Abschlussform / Credits Final paper (either a research paper or a research design)/ Class presentation. / 4 Credits
Hörer-/innen Nach Vereinbarung
Kontakt antoinebalthazar.derobiano@eui.eu
Material OLAT
Literatur


1.       Wilkinson, Richard G and Pickett, Kate. The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better. London; New York: Allen Lane, 2009. Chapters 1, 2 and 13, pp. 3-30 & 173-193.

2.       Sen, Amartya, 'The Demands of Equality', Inequality Reexamined. Oxford, 1995, Chapter 9, pp. 129-152.

3.       Milanovic, Branko. Global inequality: a new approach for the age of globalization. Cambridge, Massachusetts: HUP, 2016. Chapter 2, pp. 46-117.

4.       Milanovic, Branko. The three eras of global inequality, 1820-2020 with the focus on the past thirty years. Stone center on socio-economic inequality, WPS 59. 2022.

5.       Bourdieu, Pierre. “The Forms of Capital” in Richardson, J., Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education, Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986. pp. 241–58.


1.       Weber, Max. Economy and society: an outline of interpretive sociology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Chapters IV and IX (section 6), pp. 302-307 & 926-936.

2.       Ridgeway, Cecilia L. and Tamar Kricheli-Katz. “Intersecting Cultural Beliefs in Social Relations: Gender, Race, and Class Binds and Freedoms.” Gender & Society, 2013. 27(3): 294–318.

3.       Wacquant, Loïc. “For an Analytic of Racial Domination.” Political Power and Social Theory, 1997, n°11, pp. 221-234.

4.       Reskin, Barbara. “The Race Discrimination System.” Annual Review of Sociology, 2012, n°38: 17-35.