Mondes Sociaux

Magazine de sciences humaines et sociales en openaccess

  • La place des pauvres dans la mondialisation est souvent oubliée ou expliquée de manière simpliste. Or les pauvres portent “discrètement” la mondialisation… tout en la subissant #mondialisation #pauvres #inégalités

    https://sms.hypotheses.org/22125

    There is more to globalization than successful multinationals and the wealth of an affluent minority. Other actors are involved, but they remain inconspicuous, mostly invisible, in often unknown or unexpected spaces.

    Globalization does produce inequalities, but the way it affects the poor often tends to be explained rather inadequately. It is either analysed as inevitable or as the consequence of the obscure force of the market which will eventually gradually turn the poor into a global middle class while others claim that the poor are definitely left behind. On closer analysis, these populations characterised as « poor », indeed suffer globalisation. But our approach aims at complementing this basic observation by trying to understand how the poor also participate, support and call for this globalization (...)