Globalization and Emerging Societies

JOANILDO A. BURITY Senior Researcher, Fundacao Joaquim Nabuco, and Lecturer in Sociology and Political Science, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil JOHANNA JANSSON Senior Analyst at the Centre for Chinese Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa ANIRUDH KRSHNA Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, USA ANAND KUMAR Professor of Sociology and chair of the Department of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, President of the Indian Association of Sociology and Coordinator of the Global Studies Programme, India JAMES H. MITTELMAN University Professor of International Affairs at American University, Washington, DC, USA SANUSHA NAIDU Research Director of the China in Africa programme based with FAHAMU in South Africa RAVI A. PALAT Associate Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University, New York, USA HERMANN SCHWENGEL Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Freiburg, Germany GANESH K. TRICHUR teaches Global Political Economy and Asian Political Economy in the Global Studies department at St. Lawrence University, New York, USA

In the setting of twenty-first century globalization this volume focuses on emerging societies, rather than emerging markets or powers. Adopting a sociological perspective, each chapter focuses on development and social inequality in emerging societies, with contributions from renowned international scholars.This upper level textbook provides readers with evocative and analytical accounts ofsocial processes that are linked to globalization and connectivity, which includes a widerange of multi-centred connections in history, DNA analysis, technology, art populismand political economy.
Rather than globalization, Nederveen Pieterse focuses on connectivity. His approachto globalization differs from both structuralist accounts of the world-system, and theinstitutionally-centred focus of much work in international studies. This synthesis willprovide a new resource to reconstruct theoretical approaches to globalization andglobal studies.
Fluently written, clearly organized and with an interdisciplinary approach, the bookwill be accessible to upper division undergraduates and graduates in social sciences andhumanities, including students and researchers from the fields of sociology, politics,political economy, development studies and international relations.