Jan Nederveen-Pieterse
Contact Information
- Office: 329 Lincoln Hall
- Phone: (217) 333-1210
- Email: jnp@illinois.edu
- Personal Website
Field of Study
Development Theory, Globalization, Ethnic and Race Relations
PhD
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
About
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Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Professor of sociology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign specializing in transnational sociology [from September 2001]. His research interests include globalization, development studies and cultural studies. He taught at Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, in Ghana and United States, was visiting professor in Japan and Indonesia and is faculty of the Graduate School of National College of Arts, Lahore. Co-editor of Review of International Political Economy and advisory editor of Futures, European Journal of Social Theory, Third Text, Ethnicities and Culture & Society. Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science.
Books
- Development Theory: Deconstructions/ Reconstructions (Sage and TCS, 2001).
- White on Black: Images of Africa and blacks in western popular culture (Yale UP, 1992).
- Empire and Emancipation: power and liberation on a world scale (Praeger, 1989; Pluto, 1990; 1990 JC Ruigrok Award of the Netherlands Society of Sciences).
- Racism and Stereotyping for Beginners (Dutch, 1994)
- Global Futures: Shaping Globalization (edited, Zed, 2000)
- Globalization and Social Movements (co-edited, Macmillan, 2001).
- World Orders in the Making: humanitarian intervention and beyond (edited, Macmillan and St Martin's, 1998)
- The Decolonization of Imagination (co-edited, Oxford UP, 1997; Zed, 1995)
- Emancipations Modern and Postmodern (edited, Sage, 1992)
- Christianity and Hegemony (edited, Berg, 1992).