Understanding the Dynamics of Global Inequality Social Exclusion, Power Shift, and Structural Changes

Alexander Lenger
is a research fellow at the collaborative research centre 1015 »Otium/Leisure«, lecturer at the institute for sociology, and research affiliate at the Global Studies Programme at Freiburg University. Previously he was research fellow at the department for business ethics at the Goethe University Frankfurt and director of the Global Studies Programme at Freiburg University. His research interests include theories of social inequality, science studies, economic sociology, globalization processes, business ethics and social justice research.

Florian Schumacher
is Sociologist and Literary Scholar at Freiburg University and Director of the Global Studies Programme (Freiburg, Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, New Delhi). His research focuses on social structure, globalisation, the comparison of national identities and the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu.