Series: ThirdWorlds

This volume explores how difference is constructed, manifested, mobilised, and obscured in socially uneven societies, particularly those fuelled by neoliberal economic growth in recent years. The book approaches difference as a double-edged concept that allows one to make sense of the tensions that are played out between ‘cosmopolitan’ convergence and ‘multicultural’ diversity, between expanding middle classes and increasingly disenfranchised poor...