Connectivity and Global Studies

This 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, including students and researchers from the fields of sociology, politics, political economy, development studies and international relations.

Views connectivity as the central meridian of globalization Examines contemporary questions such as global trade, the rise of populism, Brexit, regional conflicts and emerging economies within the context of of long term, historical patterns and perspectives Clarifies the concepts of connectivity and 'entanglement' that have traditionally been difficult to follow in the study of globalization.

Autorentext

Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Duncan Mellichamp Distinguished Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at University of California Santa Barbara, USA. He specializes in globalization, development studies and cultural anthropology.

Inhalt
Introduction.- 1. Global Why.- 2. Global How.- 3. Forty Four Theses on Globalization.- 4. Pattern Analysis.- 5. Histories of Globalization.- 6. Decentering Rome.- 7. DNA and Connectivity. - 8. Technology and Connectivity.- 9. Art and Connectivity.- 10. Borders and Connectivity, Enlargement-and-Containment.- 11. Paradoxes of Populism.