Special Issue: Wealth Inequality and Elites in the global South

This special edition arises out of a workshop of economists, anthropologists and sociologists from the global South at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies in April 2019. The academics came from Chile, Mexico, Ghana, Uganda, Brazil, India, and South Africa.

The workshop explored how to meaningfully study wealth inequality in countries in the global South. This special issue brings together papers looking at important topics in the production and reproduction of wealth inequality in these countries.

The special edition has two principal aims. The first is to highlight the need for a distinctive research agenda for countries in the global South, as wealth inequality manifests itself in a different institutional environment to the global North, where much of the research agenda is determined and universalised. Secondly, it demonstrates how an inter- and multi-disciplinary approach is crucial in understanding how wealth inequality is produced and reproduced.