Globalization and Emerging Societies: Development and Inequality

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 ...