Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Ethnicities and Global Multiculture (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Arguing that ethnicity and multiculturalism are essential for understanding globalization, Jan Nederveen Pieterse offers one of the first sustained treatments of the reach of these key forces beyond a limited national context. He shows that multiethnicity preceded the nation-state by millennia; but argues that states, feeling the threat to their national identities, seek to control or suppress it. Contemporary multiculturalism, another attempt to regulate multiethnicity, is a work in progress in which dramas of global inequality are played out. This groundbreaking book adopts a kaleidoscopic and comparative-historical perspective that intertwines strands of social science and western and non-western research as a strategy to overcome the disciplinary and regional fragmentation of most discussions. Moving beyond worn notions of ethnicity and multiculturalism, Nederveen Pieterse proposes ethnicities and global multiculture as alternative, wide-angle perspectives on cultural diversity. Global multiculture, he convincingly demonstrates, offers a fresh account of layered cultural dynamics amid accelerated globalization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216309130
• Artikelnr.: 75139970

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Ethos and Ethnos
Chapter 2: Deconstructing/Reconstructing Ethnicity
Chapter 3: Social Capital and Migration: Beyond Ethnic Economies
Chapter 4: Many Doors to Multiculturalism
Chapter 5: Politics of Boundaries: Ethnicities, Multiculturalisms
Chapter 6: Multiculturalism and Museums: Representing Others in the Age of
Globalization
Chapter 7: Islam and Cosmopolitanism
Chapter 8: Global Multiculture, Flexible Acculturation
Conclusion: Global Multiculture