Globalization and Emerging Societies: Development and Inequality

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.

JAN NEDERVEEN PIETERSE is Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara, USA, and University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. He has published extensively on globalization, development studies and cultural studies. His publications include: Ethnicities and Global Multiculture: Pants for an Octopus; Globalization or Empire?; Globalization and Culture: Global Mélange and Development Theory: Deconstructions/Reconstructions.

BOIKE REHBEIN is Director of the Global Studies Program at University of Freiburg, Germany. He has published widely on Southeast Asia, Bordieu and Globalization.