Beyong Piketty: A different perspective to social inequality.

• Grant number: 24/22690-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 27, 2025
• End date: July 26, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science
• Principal Investigator: Hélio Alexandre da Silva
• Grantee: Eduarda Pereira Pires Barboza
• Supervisor: Gurminder K Bhambra
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais (FCHS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Franca. Franca , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Sussex (US), England
• Associated to the scholarship: 24/08763-8 - Inequality, ideology and colonialism in Thomas Piketty's work "Capital and Ideology", BP.IC

Abstract

This project aims to develop a critical analysis of the concept of the nation-state in Thomas Piketty's Capital and Ideology (2020), through the investigation of works by Gurminder K. Bhambra. In other words, it seeks to understand how Bhambra critiques the notion of the nation-state as employed by Piketty when he describes the structuring of inequality and its ideological legitimation in modern societies. This work intends to expand upon the analysis proposed in the initial undergraduate research project, of which the present project is a part, titled Inequality, Ideology, and Colonialism in Thomas Piketty's Capital and Ideology, that seeks to answer the following question: "What are the relations between social inequality, ideology, and colonialism in Thomas Piketty's Capital and Ideology (2020)?" In this sense, the opportunity of developing an analysis of the concept of the nation-state as utilized by Piketty, drawing on the works of Gurminder K. Bhambra, offers a critical perspective on Piketty's work, thereby enriching the ongoing research.