Special Issue of the Journal Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Deadline: 31.07.2012, CfP als PDF

Since the breakdown of socialist systems, all modern societies can be understood as effectively capitalist societies and hence revived in a stark form the confrontation and tensions between the original principle of formal equality expressed in bourgeois philosophical ethics and the ultimate outcome of ever greater economic inequality (between nations, groups, and individuals).
Historically, the economic order has been grounded in the division between domestic labour and gainful employment (work); and as well on ownership relations manifesting inequalities between class, gender, and ethnic groups within the state, and between rival nation states within a system of international dependencies. Empirically, these orders of inequality are exhibited within the social order, for example in the subordination of private households to the economy as a whole, in the unequal value ascribed to differing economic sectors and in the societal position of individuals.