Globalization and Emerging Societies

This upper level textbook provides readers with evocative and analytical accounts of
social processes that are linked to globalization and connectivity, which includes a wide
range of multi-centred connections in history, DNA analysis, technology, art populism
and political economy.


Rather than globalization, Nederveen Pieterse focuses on connectivity. His approach
to globalization differs from both structuralist accounts of the world-system, and the
institutionally-centred focus of much work in international studies. This synthesis will
provide a new resource to reconstruct theoretical approaches to globalization and
global studies.


Fluently written, clearly organized and with an interdisciplinary approach, the book
will be accessible to upper division undergraduates and graduates in social sciences and
humanities, including students and researchers from the fields of sociology, politics,
political economy, development studies and international relations.

• development
• economy
• Europe
• globalization
• Integration
• learning
• migration
• Nation
• poverty
• social inequality
• sociology
• world order
• development policy

'This original collection offers a novel perspective: that of emerging societies and global inequalities. It is comprehensive yet focused; comparative yet cumulative; interdisciplinary yet cohesive. It presents a range of critical voices from and about the global South yet cautions that not all countries and sectors will benefit: only some capitalisms and communities will thrive as the BRICs supersede the dominance of the G-8.' - Timothy M Shaw, Professor & Director, Institute of International Relations at The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago

'A remarkably coherent collection of impressive essays exploring both the opportunities and the dark consequences of globalization. Between them the chapters deconstruct the concept of development, show what it means in different contexts in different societies, and alert us to the dangerous in egalitarian consequences of unplanned growth. A most welcome contribution to the growing literature on globalisation.' - Bhikhu Parekh, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Westminster, UK

• Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

  Jan Nederveen Pieterse

• Inst. für Asien- und Afrikastudien, Humoldt-Univ. zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Boike Rehbein

JOANILDO A. BURITY is Senior Researcher, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, and Lecturer in Sociology and Political Science, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil JOHANNA JANSSON is a Senior Analyst at the Centre for Chinese Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa ANIRUDH KRSHNA is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, USA ANAND KUMAR is Professor of Sociology and chair of the Department of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, President of the Indian Association of Sociology and Coordinator of the Global Studies Programme, India JAMES H. MITTELMAN is University Professor of International Affairs at American University, Washington, DC, USA SANUSHA NAIDU is Research Director of the China in Africa programme based with FAHAMU in South Africa JAN NEDERVEEN PIETERSE is Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology, University of California-Santa Barbara, USA RAVI A. PALAT is Associate Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University, New York, USA BOIKE REHBEIN is Director of Global Studies Programme, University of Freiburg, Germany HERMANN SCHWENGEL is Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Freiburg, Germany GANESH K. TRICHUR teaches Global Political Economy and Asian Political Economy in the Global Studies department at St. Lawrence University, New York, USA

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