Review
This is an exciting new book from one of the foremost commentators on global cultural change. Jan Nederveen Pieterse explains why growing globalization means a growing quest for ethnicity, faith, and difference, and he begins to outline a multiculture in the service of reconciliation and understanding. — Ash Amin, Professor, University of Cambridge, author of Land of Strangers, Polity, 2012
Recommended as a means of stimulating debate in upper-division social science courses that explore questions of identity, class, and power in the postcolonial world.
Pieterse has very effectively analyzed the forces shaping the contemporary world and has connected these dynamic tensions to the past as well as to a rationally and optimistically envisioned future. Here is one of those rare books that scholars in the humanities and the social sciences should read as quickly as possible in order to advance to the next level of scholarly discourse.
A comprehensive and timely resource for thinking and teaching about the range of issues raised by the question of multiculture. There is no one better positioned for a study with such global reach than Jan Nederveen Pieterse. — David Theo Goldberg, Director, Humanities Research Institute, University of California
The book is a distillation of years of profound reflection on the interplay between ethnicity and globalization. It is well researched, displays considerable mastery of the literature on the subject, cuts through much conceptional confusion, and offers a most reliable guide to the current state of the world. The beautiful blend of moral passion and sociological realism adds greatly to its value. — Bhikhu Parekh, University of Westminster
About the Author
Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Mellichamp Distinguished Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His current research interests include connectivity, Covid-19, and multicentric globalization. A project underway is comparative study of capitalisms and varieties of market economies with a focus on inequality. He is the author or editor of 30 books. Nederveen Pieterse’s early work concerns anthropology, cultural studies, Eurocentrism, ethnicity and multiculturalism (Globalization and Culture, 2019; Ethnicities and global multiculture, 2007; The Decolonization of Imagination, 1995), race (White on Black, 1992), imperialism (Empire and Emancipation, 1989; Globalization or Empire? 2004), religion (Christianity and Hegemony, 1992), social movements and social theory (Globalization and social movements, 2001; Emancipations, modern and postmodern, 1992). A further cycle concerns development studies (Development Theory, 2010), emerging economies (Globalization and Emerging Societies, 2009), sociology of United States (Beyond the American Bubble, 2008), East Asia (Capitalisms in Asia, 2018; Globalization and development in East Asia, 2012), comparative study of Southeast and Northeast Asia (Changing constellations of Southeast Asia, 2017), China (China’s contingencies and globalization, 2017), the Emirates (Perspectives from the Gulf, 2010), Brazil (Brazil Emerging, 2013), humanitarian intervention (World Orders in the Making, 1998) and futures studies (Global Futures, 2000). Books have been translated in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. He was previously at Maastricht University; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Institute of Social Studies, The Hague; University of Cape Coast, Ghana and University of Amsterdam. He held visiting professorships at National University of Malaysia (endowed research chair), Freiburg University; Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta; JNU, New Delhi; National College of Arts, Lahore; Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; Shanghai University; fellowships at EHESS, Paris, Stockholm University, Indiana University, India Social Science Research Council. He did lecture tours in India, Pakistan, Westbank and Gaza, Thailand, and Brazil, and gave lectures in several countries (Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Chechia, China, Cuba, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Macau, Mexico, Nepal, Norway, Peru, Poland, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, UAE, UK, Ukraine). He is organizer of lecture series and conferences (including global studies conferences in Chicago, Dubai, Busan, Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, New Delhi, Shanghai), edits book series with Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan and advises universities on international programming.
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