Global Inequalities and Pandemic Diseases--Recent and Historical Impacts of Contagious Diseases on within- and between-Country Inequalities

Global inequalities have not shown any recent sign of improvement, revealing increasing disparities between the Haves and the Have Nots. The recent pandemic has exacerbated deep divisions, and the disparities today are widening due to the continuing pandemic impacts on the world economy. How have economic growth and development and the distributions of wealth and income been impacted by the recent and earlier pandemics and how have national and global policies changed in ways that can help mitigate growing inequalities within countries and in the larger global social system.

The session calls for papers that explore global inequalities and their links with health disparities and pandemic diseases and anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic environmental changes in recent and historical perspectives.

The session is open to studies that investigate socio-economic disparities and their relationships with pandemics impacts, environmental issues, inter-generational mobility and conflict, precarious class formations, gender, race/ethnicity, education, and migration. And we seek contributors who will address political, economic, social, and psychological aspects of these issues.