Ethnicities and Global Multiculture: Pants for an Octopus

By Jan Nederveen Pieterse and Jan Nederveen Pieterse Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology

Book Overview

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. His 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 cultural dynamics amid accelerated globalization.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742540642
• ISBN13: 9780742540644
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary