"Globalization and Culture: Global Melange discusses issues of race which are often overlooked in wider-ranging surveys of globalization and its possibilities, offering a more complex analysis that should be considered key to any political studies course. Cultural challenges involved in blending perspectives, worldviews and political structures are too often tagged onto the end of a political survey: here, it's at the forefront, offering an argument that cultural mixing is resulting in a global melange culture and considering common arguments surrounding hybridization. The result is a 'must' for any considering political and social global issues." -- Midwest Book Review "Pieterse takes a historically deep approach, developing the perspective of global mélange or hybridization of both territorial culture and translocal culture." -- Future Survey "Globalization and Culture launches a succinct attack on the 'anti-hybridity backlash' with a withering critique of its paradigmatic exemplar." -- Global Media and Communication "The discourse on cultural globalization is one of the best examples of itself: it is confusingly globalized. So we urgently need this enlightened unpacking of globalization by one of the pioneers of the debate--Jan Nederveen Pieterse." --Ulrich Beck, University of Munich "Critical, creative, and committed, Jan Nederveen Pieterse's Globalization and Culture is a work of highly impressive scholarship and rich imagination.

Historically informed and theoretically wide-ranging, this is a reader-friendly must read for all interested in this immensely topical subject. The author's deep personal engagement with the notion of hybridization makes a substantial contribution to the literature." --Anthony D. King, State University of New York, Binghamton "Cultural change is all too frequently either overlooked entirely in discussions of globalization or dismissed with glib and misleading generalities about homogenization or clashing civilizations. Jan Nederveen Pieterse offers a perspective that is more complex, truer to the ever-shifting realities of twenty-first-century life, and far more interesting. With this book, he establishes himself as a world-class thinker about the world." --Walter Truett Anderson, president, World Academy of Art and Science "Globalization and Culture is a significant contribution to a debate that is interdisciplinary, heated, and concerned with contemporary issues. Globalization produces cultural interaction, new permutations, and new differences which Nederveen Pieterse persuasively defends as part of the hybridization thesis.

Whether one agrees with him or not (and I do), this book is essential reading for those who want an intelligent and lively guide to the debate about the effects of globalization on culture." --Keith Griffin, University of California, Riverside "Globalization and Culture has been an excellent book for usage in my interdisciplinary, introductory culture and politics course. Cultural Studies is an emerging field, and it is difficult to find books that ground students in the fundamental principles and precepts of the 'discipline.' This book like no other achieves this goal. The book is interesting, written in an accessible style for undergraduates, and especially targets the relationship between globalization and culture in ways that I have found in no other book. I highly recommend this book for both the international relations and the cultural studies classrooms." --Rita Kiki Edozie, Michigan State University.