Introduction: Language, inequality and global care work

Language documentation and archiving: a work in progress Workshop introduction

The pairing of documentation and archiving also appears in several other contexts, including ethics, access and training. United via ethics we find, for example, Dwyer (2006:40) emphasising that ‘... properly archiving collected data is far more respectful to a speaker community than piling it in the back of a closet’. Dwyer (2006:35) also identifies archiving as a ‘phase’ of documentation that...

Introduction [Poverty and Inequality]

Introduction: inequality and housing

Global Economic Integration and Global Inequality

Gaps between the poorest and the richest people and countries have continued to widen…This continues the trend of two centuries. Some have predicted convergence, but the past decade has shown increasing concentration of income among people, corporations, and countries. – UN Human Development Report 1999 …globalization has dramatically increased inequality between and within nations. – Jay Mazur...

Measuring Global and International Inequality

ing from what seem to be the transitory phenomena, like the post-Communist and East Asian crises, we seem to be in the presence of an interesting situation where world inequality is driven by what happens to the relative incomes of the three large areas: (1) the rich countries of the West, (2) urban incomes in China and India, and (3) rural incomes in these two countries. The ratio between (2) ...