Coming Home to the Global: Global Studies

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4739-1334-9
Verlag: SAGE PUBN

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 242 mm

In Coming home to the Global, Jan Nederveen Pieterse takes a critical look at the past, present and future of globalization, challenging the assumption that it is a modern phenomenon by skillfully highlighting sociological, cultural and politico-economic examples of globalized behavior throughout human history, from Ancient Rome to the present.

Divided into three sections, this book focuses on the meaning of globalization and challenges its novelty, it then substantiates the challenge by attempting to periodize globalization in order to uncover the roots of the process. In the final section, the author illustrates the theoretical arguments outlined in sections one and two, through the use of extended case studies on globalization, including Wikileaks, Samsung, Art and Regionalism.

A book for anybody interested in a critical socio-cultural analysis of globalization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nederveen Pieterse, Jan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Global why: Coming home to the global
Global how
Global tools
Forty two theses on globalization
Deep histories of globalization
Decentering Rome
Contemporary art/contemporary globalization
Information war: Hyperconnectivity and transparency
Borderlessness and borders: Enlargement and containment
References

Über Autor(innen)

Nederveen Pieterse, Jan
Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in globalization, development studies and cultural anthropology. He was previously at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and the University of Amsterdam. He holds a part-time chair at Maastricht University. He currently focuses on new trends in twenty-first-century globalization and the implications of economic crisis. He has been visiting a professor in Argentina, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, and Thailand. He is on the editorial board of Clarity Press, the Journal of Global Studies and e-global, and is associate editor of the European Journal of Social Theory, Ethnicities, Third Text and the Journal of Social Affairs.