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	PDFs Between Emancipation and Regulation: The Pillars of Modernity Representation is a strategic question. Santos addresses representation in science by way of the lessons of painting (perspective), cartography (scale), photography (resolution) and other modes... Can the United States Correct Itself? Can the United States correct itself? Is the balance of forces such that, short of undergoing a major economic and political crisis, theUnited States can chart a significantly different course? Capitalisms: Asian-European Dialogue after Enron This dicussion suggests three steps. One is to retrieve the varieties of capitalism from the propaganda that claims there is no alternative to free market capitalism. Second is to examine the growing inﬂuence of American capitalism and the diversity or convergence of capitalisms in light of Enron and related episodes. Deconstruction/Reconstructing Ethnicity Ethnicity is here viewed as a continuum, varying widely in terms of salience, intensity and meaning... Digital Capitalism and Development: The Unbearable Lightness of ICT4D The application of infomation and communication technologies (ICT) in development poicies- in short, information-for-development or ICT4D- follows ideas of digital divide and cyber apartheid. This discussion situates ICT4D in critical development studies and global political economy and argues that information-for-development is primarily driven by market deepening. Emancipatory Cosmopolitanism: Towards an Agenda This contribution explores what, in outline, an agenda of emancipatory cosmopolitanism would consist of. The first step in this treatment is to scrutinize capitalist cosmopolitanism as the dominant variant of cosmopolitanism... Ethnicities and multiculturalisms: politics of boundaries How far have ethnic studies advanced past the ﬁnding that ethnicity is constructed, not primordial? While the “decolonization of ethnicity” is still under way, at times the stream of ethnic studies seems to add up to little more than a series of vignettes... Global inequality: Bringing politics back in Data on contemporary global inequality are dramatic, widely known and a new conventional backdrop. In research and policy economists lead the way and the emphasis is on global poverty rather than inequality. Within nations poverty is a challenge, while inequality is not... Global Multiculturalism, Flexible Acculturations Multiculti, said critics, is only different wallpaper and a wider choice in restaurants. But he Danish cartoon episode, the murder of Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam, 7/7 in London and the car burnings in the French banlieues show that more is at stake. Multiculturalism is a global arena. Yet most treatments still conceive of multiculturalism as a national arena... Globalization: Consensus and Controversies Globalization is like a prism in which major disputes over the collective human condition are now refracted... Globalization North and South: Representations of Uneven Development and the Interaction of Modernities A MAJOR FEATURE of the global condition is the wide and glaring hiatus between wealth and poverty. One would like to say it's a feature of global experience, but for how many of us is it a matter of experience? Globalization the next round: Sociological perspectives The twenty-ﬁrst century momentum of globalizationis markedly different from the twentieth century globalization (a new geography of trade,weaker hegemony, and growing multipolarity) andpresents major questions. Is the rise of East Asia, China and India just another episode in the rise and decline of nations... Hierarchical Integration: The Dollar Economy and the Rupee Economy While contemporary globalization makes the world more interconnected, it also reworks and builds on existing cleavages and uneven development. This is an under-researched dimension of the emerging twenty-f irst century inter-national division of labour... Hybrid Modernities: Melange Modernities in Asia Globalization and localization are themes of such universal moment and salience that it is clear that they represent a new frontier... Hybridity, So What? The Anti-hybridity Backlash and the Riddles of Recognition Opening up to identity politics and politics of difference is one of the changes of recent times, and recognition further widens this frame. As the goalposts are shifted towards recognition and difference new problems arise. As identity politics comes to the fore, does interest politics fade into the background? Hyperpower Exceptionalism: Globalisation the American Way In international affairs the USA displays growing unilateralism. International development policies have been constrained by the Washington consensus. The USA fails to sign on to international greening protocols. Until recently the USA was perennially in arrears in United Nations dues... Leviathon or Mammon? The Scope of Imperialism Theories Two perspectives have dominanted thinking about imperialism: Marxist theories... and political, mainly state-oriented interpretations... Maitreyee: E-Bulletin of the Human Development and Capability Association In view of the political spillover of ethnic and religious movements—as in former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan and several Muslim countries—the policy relevance of the cultural dimensions of development is increasingly prominent. So it plays large in the 2004 Human Development Report devoted to culture. Media and Global Divides: Representing the Rise of the Rest as Threat Like a giant oil tanker, the world is turning. New growth poles of the world economy have been emerging in the south and east. Globalization once belonged to the west and now the tables areturning. We have entered the era of the ‘rise of the rest'. Mirakels Multiculturalisme: Zwarte Piet als Trickster Wat doet Zwarte Piet in Nederland, jaar in jaar uit? Buitenlanders die in de Sinterklaasperiode in het land vertoeven staan versteld van het feit dat stereotypen die elders allang niet meer kunnen, hier kennelijk nog steeds in zwang zijn... Multipolarity means thinking plural: Modernities Modernities are a theme of our times. Recognizing that modernities are multiple and diverse andtranscending ideal-type modernity and its Eurocentric legacy, acknowledges the multi- polar realities of twenty-first century globalization and the ‘rise of the rest’. Real-existing mo- dernities are mixed social formations in that they straddle past and present and import and translate styles and customs from other cultures. Neoliberal Empire The war on terrorism involves a new round in the worldwide projec- tion of American power and fossil fuel geopolitics and the threat of preventive strikes. A headline sums up the drift in American media: ‘American Empire, not “if” but “what kind?”' (Daalder and Lindsay, 2003). What then are the characteristics of this empire? Neoliberal Globalization Chapter One of Globalization or Empire Oriental Globalization: Past and Present The critique of Eurocentrism has gone through several rounds. The first roundwas primarily a critique of Orientalism. Edward Said and Martin Bernal, among others, focused on cultural bias and racism in Eurocentric history. Others addressed Eurocentric biases... Paradigm making while paradigm breaking: Andre Gunder Frank As Thomas Kuhn pointed out, most science is puzzle solving and paradigm breakers and paradigm makers are rare. Gunder was among them, and besides, such a contrarian that he was a renegade also of many of his own positions... Participatory Democratization Reconceived Since the 1970s participatory democracy has been a catchword for genuine, popular or progressive democratization. Since then the general climate has changed in several respects. How is participatory democracy now being conceived and reconceived? To contextualize this question I ﬁrst consider ongoing discussions of democracy and democratization generally, and then zero in on participatory democracy and its various current meanings. Shaping Globalization Chapter One Social capital and migration: Beyond ethnic economies Intercultural trafﬁc and mingling have been vital to economic innovation past and present – witness the role of travellers, migrants and diasporas as cultural brokers. While intercultural exchange is a prominent theme in cultural studies, studies of ethnicity have often been more occupied by group boundaries... The Cultural Turn in Development: Questions of Power After the cultural turn has upset most of the social sciences, it finally comes to economics and to the bundle of practices called development. The History of a Metaphor: Christian Zionism and the Politics of Apocalypse In the 1970s and 1980s, after prolonged slumber, the themes of Christian Zionism returned to the front pages... The Human Development Report and Cultural Liberty: Tough Liberalism In view of the political spillover of ethnic and religious movements — as in former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan and several Muslim countries — the policy relevance of the cultural dimensions of development is increasingly prominent. So it is no wonder that this should play a large part in a Human Development Report devoted to culture... Towards Democratic Globalization: To WTO or not to WTO? In his paper on ‘Economic globalization and institutions of global governance’, Keith Griffin (2003) adopts a welcome forward-looking focus. Griffin is committed to symmetric and democratic globalization and presents policies towards implementing this; I will comment on his argument and then focus on the WTO. Home I Publications I Abstracts I Conferences I CV I PDFs I Contact © 2009 Jan Nederveen Pieterse\| All Rights Reserved