Publisher's Synopsis
This upper level 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 and
humanities, including students and researchers from the fields of sociology, politics,
political economy, development studies and international relations.
