This edited collection aims to contribute to the decolonial social and cultural analyses of global entangled inequalities by focusing on their local articulations. Drawing on empirical research conducted by scholars in Germany, Trinidad and Tobago, Australia and in Canada, the book engages with the conceptual framework of global inequalities and the methodological perspective on entanglement. It does so by approaching global inequalities and their local articulations: (a) global political economy, structural violence, entangled inequalities; (b) financial inequalities and state injustice; (c) inequality within and beyond race and ethnicity; (d) decolonial struggles against inequality; and (e) decolonial futurities. It is on these grounds that this edited volume aims to contribute to the analysis of entangled global inequalities by mobilizing a decolonial framework paying attention to the intersections of race, gender, labour, finances and the State.

‘This highly original volume is a much needed contribution to decolonial and postcolonial studies, as well as research on migration, (anti-)racism and socio-economic inequalities. Its’ unique dialogue between studies from the Caribbean and Europe that all share a focus on decoloniality and neoliberal capitalism opens up both theoretical and methodological pathways for future research. The book is especially important in its insistence on the connections of economic, political, cultural, subjective and affective processes and in its impressive operationalization of this approach to a broad range of empirical studies from the Global South and the Global North.’—Suvi Keskinen, University of Helsinki, Finland

‘This innovative book brings together leading and emergent authors to offer us an incisive decolonial perspective on a range of contemporary social processes. With astonishing breadth, geographical and thematic coverage, it puts a decolonial analysis centre stage to understand diverse social processes, from domestic work, to financialization, and refugee movements’ — Umut Erel, The Open University, UK

‘The book is absolutely an enjoyable read. Its methodological focus on colonial entanglement as historically produced, culturally reproduced and materializing in different local and specific contexts is important.’ —Salla Tuori, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Decolonial Perspectives on Entangled Inequalities is an intellectual contribution to the discourse on decoloniality. The anthology, which explores global connections that encompass Europe and the Caribbean, comprises a plurality of methodological approaches. It is dedicated to Kari Polanyi Levitt, whose essay sets the stage by offering a political economy/historical account of the transition of society from mercantilism to neoliberalism, examining the impact of the 2008 financial crisis in the process. —Linden F. Lewis Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Bucknell University.

This volume is studded with a cutting-edge set of fascinating and rigorously analysed case studies from both the Caribbean and Europe that make empirical and analytical contributions on their own; yet, they also gain deeper traction when read and studied together comparatively under the insightful guidance of the editors. —Social and Economic Studies.

Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez is a sociologist engaged with decolonial-feminist-queer analysis on affect, care, conviviality, migration, racism and work.

Rhoda Reddock is a feminist sociologist, social historian, development studies scholar and social activist.