Nederveen Pieterse, Jan

Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at Uni-versity of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in globalization, development studies and cultural anthropology. He was previously at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague, the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and the University of Amsterdam. He is Honorary Professor of Globalization at Maastricht University. He co-organizes annual Global Studies conferences. He currently focuses on new trends in twenty-first century globalization, implications of economic crisis and growing South-South cooperation. He has been visiting professor in Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swe-den and Thailand. He is on the editorial board of Clarity Press, the Journal of Global Studies and e-global, and is associate editor of the European Journal of Social Theory, Ethnicities, Third Text and the Journal of Social Affairs. He edits book series on Emerging Societies (Routledge) and Frontiers of Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan).