How does globalization impact upon identities, politics and structures of inequality across the world’s major regions and continents? In this lecture, Dr. Rodney D. Coates traces the historical processes of globalization and examines how these processes transcends, transforms and restructures people’s identities, borders and boundaries of nation states, and regional integration processes. It identifies multiple sets of global systems of inequality and how they interact with cultural, political, economic and social systems at local and regional levels to reproduce and extend power and dominance.
A renowned public sociologist, Dr. Coates' scholarship has frequently garnered national recognition. He is the receipt of the Joseph Himes Career Award in Scholarship and Activism from the Association of Black Sociologists (2007), the Edward Said Award for public Sociology from Sociologists without Borders (2010), and the Founders Award for Scholarship and Service from the American Sociological Association (2014).