Volume 3: Polarisation and Inequality: Examining the Links and Consequences and Overcoming these Challenges
In this edition, we present a combination of academic pieces and perspective articles—a deliberate editorial choice designed to capture the complexity of inequality from multiple angles. The featured academic pieces provide rigorous, in-depth analyses that draw on empirical data and case studies to explore the structural dimensions of inequality. The perspective articles offer more concise and reflective insights, capturing personal or professional viewpoints on specific aspects of inequality. These articles add depth to the discussion by presenting alternative, sometimes more immediate, interpretations of how inequality manifests in society.
Beyond general articles, this volume is centred around the theme of “Polarisation and Inequality: Examining the Links and Consequences and Overcoming these Challenges”. While polarisation and inequality are distinct phenomena, they are deeply interconnected. Polarisation often exacerbates inequalities, creating divisions that extend beyond the economic and political realms into social and cultural spheres. As inequality deepens, it fuels polarisation, leading to a cyclical pattern that is difficult to break.
Beyond general articles, this volume is centred around the theme of “Polarisation and Inequality: Examining the Links and Consequences and Overcoming these Challenges”. While polarisation and inequality are distinct phenomena, they are deeply interconnected. Polarisation often exacerbates inequalities, creating divisions that extend beyond the economic and political realms into social and cultural spheres. As inequality deepens, it fuels polarisation, leading to a cyclical pattern that is difficult to break.
Volume 2: Constructing A Better Future: A Blueprint for Overcoming Inequality
We live in a world divided. Our societies are increasingly polarised by geopolitical conflict, threatened by the climate crisis, ruptured by technological change, and shaped by deep economic disparities – all the while reeling, still, from the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, communities across the globe – from social movements and political reform efforts to cultural organisations and scientific networks – offer glimmers of more just and equitable futures. At this moment of unpredictability and possibility, this year's edition of the Graduate Inequality Review seeks to help construct a blueprint for the path forward. Future is broadly defined, to allow authors to explore the social, political and philosophical ramifications of the concept.
Volume 1: Rising From the Ashes: Inequality, Crisis, and Response
As we emerged from the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic and stared down a burgeoning series of economic, political, environmental, and health crises around the world, our editors wanted a theme that captured both the stark challenges this reality presented, and the opportunities for rebuilding it offered. We hoped that this theme would allow us to couple a realism about the immense obstacles tied to inequality all over the world, with a radical form of optimism about the ways communities have arisen out of crises and used them as opportunities for transformative change. Crisis, in this title, is broadly defined – it is meant to be a term that allows authors to reflect on the many ways philosophical, political, and cultural challenges can manifest in communities big and small, and how solutions can be found in both the intuitive and unintuitive, the expected and unfounded. The submissions we received for this year embraced this openness – producing a variety of works that engage with the idea of crisis in all of its various forms. We are incredibly proud of the diversity of perspectives and approaches this first volume of the Inequality Review presents – and hope it will act as a harbinger of things to come for future editions.