Arguing that ethnicity and multiculturalism are essential for
understanding globalization, Jan Nederveen Pieterse offers one of
the first sustained treatments of the reach of these key forces
beyond a limited national context. He shows that multiethnicity
preceded the nation-state by millennia; but argues that states,
feeling the threat to their national identities, seek to control or
suppress it. Contemporary multiculturalism, another attempt to
regulate multiethnicity, is a work in progress in which dramas of
global inequality are played out. This groundbreaking book adopts a
kaleidoscopic and comparative-historical perspective that
intertwines strands of social science and western and non-western
research as a strategy to overcome the disciplinary and regional
fragmentation of most discussions. Moving beyond worn notions of
ethnicity and multiculturalism, Nederveen Pieterse proposes
ethnicities and global multiculture as alternative, wide-angle
perspectives on cultural diversity. Global multiculture, he
convincingly demonstrates, offers a fresh account of layered
cultural dynamics amid accelerated globalization.
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