CALL FOR CHAPTERS
Economic Inequality
Editors-in-Chief:
Rajendra Baikady Ph.D., Department of Social Work, School of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Email: rajendra.baikady@mail.huji.ac.il
Jaroslaw Przeperski Ph.D. Director, Centre for Family Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland
Email: jarek.przeperski@gmail.com
Berch Berberoglu, Ph.D., Foundation Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Nevada, United States.
Email: berchb@unr.edu
Dear colleagues we invite you to take part in one of the largest editorial projects on Inequality - Mapping Global Inequality - Major Reference Work Book Series being published by Springer Nature, United States.
The Series encompasses several volumes, but we will publish an individual call for contributions to each volume separately. In this call for contributions, we are particularly seeking authors for the volume on Economic Inequality
This volume in the mapping global inequality series aims to provide an understanding and tools to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze economic inequality within different political, economic, cultural and geographic boundaries. While exploring different aspects of economic inequality we aim to understand the connection between Globalization, Neoliberal Policies and Economic Inequality across the globe. The process of globalization and technological advancement in the 21st century resulted in unequal distribution of wealth and economic resources between and within different countries and thus leaving a huge number of people experiencing discrimination and unequal treatment. Unequal distribution of economic resources brings inequality and disparities between and within the countries, communities and different population groups which further leads to several social problems. Economic inequality is a concern in almost all countries around the world and often people are trapped in poverty with little chance to climb up the social ladder as they experience lack of resources and opportunities. This volume invites contributions approaching economic inequality at different levels of global society (whether local, regional, national, or transnational) --the micro, meso, and macro.
The volume is multidisciplinary in its approach and encourages scholars to respond to the following four questions:
- What do we know about economic inequality (i.e., what is the definition and perception of inequality)?
- Why is economic inequality still existing in the country and what are the consequences (i.e., root causes from micro, meso or macro level)?
- What are the current trends in economic inequality?
Chapters in this volume will explore how economic resources such as land, labor, capital, and technology are unequally distributed among different population groups and its impact on the overall human development. Further, this will also focus on how economic inequality experienced in a country will affect its progress towards achieving different Sustainable Development Goals. We invite chapters that examine:
(i) anatomy of economic inequality ; (ii) globalization, labor market and economic inequality; (iii) patterns of globalization, regionalization and their consequences on economic development (iv) analytical and normative responses to globalization; (v) agriculture and economic development in developed countries; (vi) measuring economic inequality; (vii) the influence of the urban informal sector on economic inequality; (viii) identifying and measuring economic discrimination; (ix) role of higher education to reduce inequality in developing countries; (x) skill development and economic development; (xi) trade, foreign investment, and economic inequality in developing countries; (xii) progressive social security programs; (xiii) entrepreneurship, jobs, and economic growth; (xiv) role of policymakers in reducing economic inequality; (xv) technological development, digital transformation, big data, and the future of economic development.
The goal is to gather the best possible contributions in the respective areas and make this reference work as a truly global project. There will be a minimum of 40 chapters from at least 30 countries in this and each volume discussing various aspects of inequality in different socio-political and economic contexts providing a valuable source for researchers, academics and policy makers at both local and global contexts. Each of the Mapping Global Inequality volumes will also include chapters on cross-country comparison to provide an understanding of similarities and differences in many aspects of inequality across different regions. Additionally, an exclusive and extensive introductory chapter with an overview of the volume, its scope and comparative understanding of all the contributions will be covered in this and all the other volumes.
Structure of the Volume:
Level of Your Contribution: Our aim is to provide an accessible and exciting handbook for specialists, academicians, advanced students, and readers who are familiar with the field as well as those from other related disciplines.
The size of each chapter that we are expecting will be circa 8000-10,000 words (including the reference list). We are inviting chapters that are critical summaries/synopses (tertiary literature) rather than original research reports.
We are accepting contributions on a rolling basis and writing and reviewing is scheduled to take place until approximately July 2024 and final proofing between then and the end of the year. The sooner you submit your chapter the sooner it will be published online and citable. Contributions to all the volumes in this series are peer-reviewed.
Online-First Publication of Chapters: Once the production and proofing loop is completed, the chapter will be published online-first on Springer Nature's online publication webpage SpringerLink http://link.springer.com. At that stage, the article is DOI citable. You will be able to access it via your chapter page on METEOR. As the author of this project, you can also access via METEOR all other online published Springer Nature References.
Please keep in mind: the sooner you send in your manuscript, the sooner it will be published and citable.
Print Publication: The print publication of the volume you contribute to will be finalized once the last chapter of the volume has been reviewed and gone through the production workflow.
Online Update of Chapters: One copy of the published version of your chapter is re-ingested to METEOR for further updates. The chapter opens up for updates again in METEOR and the status of your chapter changes to ‘Open for Submission’. At this time, you can up-load fresh or updated files, if you wish. The updated and approved chapters will be published as a new version in the living reference version of this project. Editors and authors can submit updates to articles at the pace of the advancement of science. On behalf of the Editors of Palgrave/Springer Nature, we thank you for your contributions. Please don't hesitate to contact us with any queries you might have.
Interested authors, please send a 250-word abstract and author bio By 25 March 2022, to Dr. Rajendra Baikady rajendra.baikady@mail.huji.ac.il. Please give the subject header as - Economic Inequality: Chapter proposal. The editorial team members will evaluate the submitted abstracts on a rolling basis and notify the authors along with full chapter submission guidelines.
Qualifications: We recommend that academic authors have, be supervised by, or in pursuit of their Ph.D., whereas non-academic professionals should have at least 3 years of experience in the field.
Full chapter submission Schedule:
December 25, 2022 | June 25, 2023 |
December 25, 2023 | June 25, 2024 |
Rajendra Baikady Ph.D., Department of Social Work, School of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
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