A highly productive scholar, Nederveen Pieterse is author of 10 single-authored books and 14 co-edited books, several of which have been translated into more than five languages. Jan works on a variety of themes, ranging from development and globalization to cultural studies. His work concerns multiple regions of the world including Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, China, the Middle East, Europe and North and Latin America. Jan's current work focuses on new trends in 21st century globalization and the rise of emerging economies. His most recent books are Multipolar Globalization and Coming Home to the Global.
Selected Books
2017. Multipolar Globalization: Emerging Economies and Development. London, Routledge
2017. Changing Constellations of Southeast Asia: From Northeast Asia to China, co-edited with Abdul Rahman Embong, and Siew Yean Tham, eds. 2017 London, Routledge.
2017. China’s Contingencies and Globalization, co-edited with Changgang Guo and Liu Debin. London, Routledge
2014. Globalization and Development in East Asia, co-edited with Jongtae Kim. New York, Routledge.
2013. Brazil Emerging: Inequality and Emancipation, co-edited with Adalberto Cardoso. London, Routledge.
2011. 21st Century Globalization: Perspectives from the Gulf, co-edited with Habibul Haque Khondker. Abu Dhabi, Zayed University Press.
2010. Development Theory, 2nd edition. London, Sage.
2009. Globalization and Emerging Societies: Development and Inequality, Boike Rehbein. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
2009. Is There Hope for Uncle Sam? Beyond the American Bubble. London, Zed Books.
2007. Ethnicities and Global Multiculture: Pants for an Octopus. Rowman & Littlefield
2004. Globalization or Empire? New York, Routledge.
2000. Global Futures: Shaping Globalization. London, Zed Books.
1998. World Orders in the Making: Humanitarian Intervention and Beyond. London, Palgrave.
1995. White on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture. Yale UP
1995. The Decolonization of Imagination, co-edited with Bhikhu Parekh. London, Zed Books.
1992. Christianity and Hegemony. Oxford, Berg
1992. Emancipations, Modern and Postmodern. London, Sage
1989. Empire and Emancipation: Power and Liberation on a World Scale. New York, Praeger.
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
2016 Multipolarity means Thinking Plural: Modernities, in G. Preyer and M. Sussmann, eds. Varieties of Multiple Modernities. Leiden, Brill, 109-121.
2015 China’s contingencies and globalization, Third World Quarterly 36, 11: 1985-2001.
2015 What happened to the Miracle Eight? Looking East in the twenty-first century, Canadian Journal of Development Studies 63, 3: 263-282.
2014 Rethinking Modernity and Capitalism: Add Context and Stir, Sociopedia Colloquium
2013 What is global studies? Globalizations 10, 4: 499-514
2012 Leaking Superpower: WikiLeaks and the contradictions of democracy, Third World Quarterly 33, 10: 1909-1924
2012 Periodizing globalization: Histories of globalization, New Global Studies 6, 2: 1-25
2012 Twenty-first century globalization: A new development era, Forum for Development Studies 39, 1: 1-19
2011 Global rebalancing: Crisis and the East-South turn, Development and Change 42, 1: 22-48
2009 Representing the rise of the rest as threat: Media and global divides, Global Media and Communication, 5, 2: 1-17
2007 Global Multiculture, Flexible Acculturation, Globalizations, 4, 1: 65-79
1998 My Paradigm or Yours? Alternative Development, Post Development, Reflexive Development Development and Change, 29, 2: 343-73
1994 Globalization as Hybridization, International Sociology, 9, 2, 1994: 161-84
Awards
The JC Ruigrok Award of the Netherlands Society of Sciences, 1990 He co-organized 7 international Global studies conferences across the world, which led to publications co-edited with local scholars.
