Global Assemblages
Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 31. August 2004
Buch
Softcover
512 Seiten
978-1-4051-2358-7 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems
Provides an exciting approach to some of the most contentious issues in discussions around globalization-bioscientific research, neoliberalism, governance-from the perspective of the "anthropological" problems they pose; in other words, in terms of their implications for how individual and collective life is subject to technological, political, and ethical reflection and intervention.
Offers a ground-breaking approach to central debates about globalization with chapters written by leading scholars from across the social sciences.
Examines a range of phenomena that articulate broad structural transformations: technoscience, circuits of exchange, systems of governance, and regimes of ethics or values.
Investigates these phenomena from the perspective of the "anthropological" problems they pose.
Covers a broad range of geographical areas: Africa, the Middle East, East and South Asia, North America, South America, and Europe.
Grapples with a number of empirical problems of popular and academic interest - from the organ trade, to accountancy, to pharmaceutical research, to neoliberal reform.
Provides an exciting approach to some of the most contentious issues in discussions around globalization-bioscientific research, neoliberalism, governance-from the perspective of the "anthropological" problems they pose; in other words, in terms of their implications for how individual and collective life is subject to technological, political, and ethical reflection and intervention.
Offers a ground-breaking approach to central debates about globalization with chapters written by leading scholars from across the social sciences.
Examines a range of phenomena that articulate broad structural transformations: technoscience, circuits of exchange, systems of governance, and regimes of ethics or values.
Investigates these phenomena from the perspective of the "anthropological" problems they pose.
Covers a broad range of geographical areas: Africa, the Middle East, East and South Asia, North America, South America, and Europe.
Grapples with a number of empirical problems of popular and academic interest - from the organ trade, to accountancy, to pharmaceutical research, to neoliberal reform.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"This compelling book demonstrates how a very sophisticated anthropological perspective can transform 'globalization' into a useful tool for investigating emerging social forms and ways of ruling and living. Certainly this non-structural approach is needed-one that attends to the specificity of combinations, interactions, sites, and effects associated with the spread of technology and risk."Ulrich Beck, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
"Global Assemblages provides excellent and rich insight into a developing anthropology of the contemporary world. The intertwining of violence, capital flows, political fragmentation, and regimes of social and moral control are investigated here in what must be recognized as a major contribution to anthropological scholarship."
Jonathan Friedman, L' Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris and Lund University, Sweden
"This volume will give assemblages of many types a good name-the authors are astute, varied, and at the top of their game; the geographies do justice to the notion of global; and the book has a core intellectual inquiry about reflexive practices that holds together its wide-ranging essays. From transplanted kidneys to research audit protocols, the uneasy interrelationships of global assemblages emerge in the fleshy details of a knotted world."
Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz
Weitere Details
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
Hoboken
Großbritannien
Verlagsgruppe
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Produkt-Hinweis
Broschur/Paperback
Klebebindung
Maße
Höhe: 244 mm
Breite: 170 mm
Dicke: 28 mm
Gewicht
874 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-2358-7 (9781405123587)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Weitere Ausgaben
Andere Ausgaben
Aihwa Ong | Stephen J. Collier
Global Assemblages
Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems
E-Book
04/2008
Wiley-Blackwell
34,99 €
Als Download verfügbar
Aihwa Ong | Stephen J. Collier
Global Assemblages
Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems
Buch
08/2004
Wiley
163,50 €
Versand in 15-20 Tagen
Personen
Aihwa Ong is Professor of Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Stephen J. Collier is a faculty member at the Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School University.
Stephen J. Collier is a faculty member at the Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School University.
Inhalt
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I Introduction 1
1 Global Assemblages, Anthropological Problems 3
Stephen J. Collier and Aihwa Ong
2 On Regimes of Living 22
Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff
3 Midst Anthropology's Problems 40
Paul Rabinow
Part II Bioscience and Biological Life 55
Ethics of Technoscientific Objects 57
4 Stem Cells R Us: Emergent Life Forms and the Global Biological 59
Sarah Franklin
5 Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception 79
Lawrence Cohen
6 The Iceland Controversy: Reflections on the Transnational Market of Civic Virtue 91
Gisli Palsson and Paul Rabinow
Value and Values 105
7 Time, Money, and Biodiversity 107
Geoffrey C. Bowker
8 Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics, and Therapeutic Citizenship 124
Vinh-kim Nguyen
9 The Last Commodity: Post-Human Ethics and the Global Traffic in ''Fresh'' Organs 145
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Part III Social Technologies and Disciplines 169
Standards 171
10 Standards and Person-Making in East Central Europe 173
Elizabeth C. Dunn
11 The Private Life of Numbers: Pharmaceutical Marketing in Post-Welfare Argentina 194
Andrew Lakoff
12 Implementing Empirical Knowledge in Anthropology and Islamic Accountancy 214
Bill Maurer
Practices of Calculating Selves 233
13 Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization: Toward the Re-Functioning of Ethnography 235
Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus
14 The Discipline of Speculators 253
Caitlin Zaloom
15 Cultures on the Brink: Reengineering the Soul of Capitalism - On a Global Scale 270
Kris Olds and Nigel Thrift
Managing Uncertainty 291
16 Heterarchies of Value: Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in a New Media Startup 293
Monique Girard and David Stark
17 Failure as an Endpoint 320
Hirokazu Miyazaki and Annelise Riles
Part IV Governmentality and Politics 333
Governing Populations 335
18 Ecologies of Expertise: Assembling Flows, Managing Citizenship 337
Aihwa Ong
19 Globalization and Population Governance in China 354
Susan Greenhalgh
20 Budgets and Biopolitics 373
Stephen J. Collier
Security, Legitimacy, Justice 391
21 State and Urban Space in Brazil: From Modernist Planning to Democratic Interventions 393
Teresa Caldeira and James Holston
22 The Garrison-Entrepot: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin 417
Janet Roitman
Citizenship and Ethics 437
23 Biological Citizenship 439
Nikolas Rose and Carlos Novas
24 Robust Knowledge and Fragile Futures 464
Marilyn Strathern
Index 482
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I Introduction 1
1 Global Assemblages, Anthropological Problems 3
Stephen J. Collier and Aihwa Ong
2 On Regimes of Living 22
Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff
3 Midst Anthropology's Problems 40
Paul Rabinow
Part II Bioscience and Biological Life 55
Ethics of Technoscientific Objects 57
4 Stem Cells R Us: Emergent Life Forms and the Global Biological 59
Sarah Franklin
5 Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception 79
Lawrence Cohen
6 The Iceland Controversy: Reflections on the Transnational Market of Civic Virtue 91
Gisli Palsson and Paul Rabinow
Value and Values 105
7 Time, Money, and Biodiversity 107
Geoffrey C. Bowker
8 Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics, and Therapeutic Citizenship 124
Vinh-kim Nguyen
9 The Last Commodity: Post-Human Ethics and the Global Traffic in ''Fresh'' Organs 145
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Part III Social Technologies and Disciplines 169
Standards 171
10 Standards and Person-Making in East Central Europe 173
Elizabeth C. Dunn
11 The Private Life of Numbers: Pharmaceutical Marketing in Post-Welfare Argentina 194
Andrew Lakoff
12 Implementing Empirical Knowledge in Anthropology and Islamic Accountancy 214
Bill Maurer
Practices of Calculating Selves 233
13 Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization: Toward the Re-Functioning of Ethnography 235
Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus
14 The Discipline of Speculators 253
Caitlin Zaloom
15 Cultures on the Brink: Reengineering the Soul of Capitalism - On a Global Scale 270
Kris Olds and Nigel Thrift
Managing Uncertainty 291
16 Heterarchies of Value: Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in a New Media Startup 293
Monique Girard and David Stark
17 Failure as an Endpoint 320
Hirokazu Miyazaki and Annelise Riles
Part IV Governmentality and Politics 333
Governing Populations 335
18 Ecologies of Expertise: Assembling Flows, Managing Citizenship 337
Aihwa Ong
19 Globalization and Population Governance in China 354
Susan Greenhalgh
20 Budgets and Biopolitics 373
Stephen J. Collier
Security, Legitimacy, Justice 391
21 State and Urban Space in Brazil: From Modernist Planning to Democratic Interventions 393
Teresa Caldeira and James Holston
22 The Garrison-Entrepot: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin 417
Janet Roitman
Citizenship and Ethics 437
23 Biological Citizenship 439
Nikolas Rose and Carlos Novas
24 Robust Knowledge and Fragile Futures 464
Marilyn Strathern
Index 482