Ethnicities and Global Multiculture: Pants for an Octopus - Rilegato

Pieterse, Jan Nederveen

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ISBN 10: 0742540634 ISBN 13: 9780742540637

Casa editrice: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2007

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Product Description:

Book by Nederveen Pieterse Jan

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0742540634
• ISBN 13: 9780742540637
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 243