Jan Nederveen Pieterse is a Dutch-born scholar whose work centers on global political economy, development studies and cultural studies.[1] He currently serves as the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Distinguished Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[2]
Jan received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Amsterdam in cultural anthropology, and completed his Ph.D. in social science at the University of Nijmegen in 1988.[3] He has previously held professorships at Maastricht University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague; University of Cape Coast, Ghana, the University of Amsterdam and Malaysia National University. In addition, he has served as visiting professor at universities in Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, and Thailand.
Nederveen Pieterse has authored 10 books and co-edited 14 others. Several of Pieterse's published works have been translated into more than five languages.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] His most recent books are Multipolar Globalization and Coming Home to the Global.
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
2015. Globalization and Culture: Global Mélange. Rowman and Littlefield, third revised edition
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.
The JC Ruigrok Award of the Netherlands Society of Sciences, 1990 (for Empire and Emancipation: Power and Liberation on a World Scale. New York, Praeger, 1989)
He co-organized 7 international Global studies conferences across the world (Chicago, Dubai, Busan, Rio, Moscow, New Delhi, Shanghai), which led to publications co-edited with local scholars.[citation needed]
