Global Assemblages
Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems
Erschienen am 30. April 2008
512 Seiten
978-0-470-69581-4 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Provides an exciting approach to some of the most contentiousissues in discussions around globalization--bioscientificresearch, neoliberalism, governance--from the perspective ofthe "anthropological" problems they pose; in other words, in termsof their implications for how individual and collective life issubject to technological, political, and ethical reflection andintervention.
* * Offers a ground-breaking approach to central debates aboutglobalization with chapters written by leading scholars from acrossthe social sciences.
* Examines a range of phenomena that articulate broad structuraltransformations: technoscience, circuits of exchange, systems ofgovernance, 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 MiddleEast, East and South Asia, North America, South America, andEurope.
* Grapples with a number of empirical problems of popular andacademic interest -- from the organ trade, to accountancy, topharmaceutical research, to neoliberal reform.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"This compelling book demonstrates how a very sophisticatedanthropological perspective can transform'globalization' into a useful tool for investigatingemerging social forms and ways of ruling and living. Certainly thisnon-structural approach is needed--one that attends to thespecificity of combinations, interactions, sites, and effectsassociated with the spread of technology and risk." Ulrich Beck, Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversitätMünchen "Global Assemblages provides excellent and richinsight into a developing anthropology of the contemporary world.The intertwining of violence, capital flows, politicalfragmentation, and regimes of social and moral control areinvestigated here in what must be recognized as a majorcontribution to anthropological scholarship." Jonathan Friedman, L' École des Hautes Étudesen Sciences Sociales, Paris and Lund University,Sweden "This volume will give assemblages of many types a goodname--the authors are astute, varied, and at the top of theirgame; the geographies do justice to the notion of global; and thebook has a core intellectual inquiry about reflexive practices thatholds together its wide-ranging essays. From transplanted kidneysto research audit protocols, the uneasy interrelationships ofglobal assemblages emerge in the fleshy details of a knottedworld." Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa CruzWeitere Details
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Aihwa Ong is Professor of Anthropology and Southeast AsianStudies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Stephen J. Collier is a faculty member at the GraduateProgram in International Affairs, The New School University.
Inhalt
Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Part I: Introduction.
1. Global Assemblages, Anthropological Problems. (Stephen J.Collier and Aihwa Ong).
2. On Regimes of Living. (Stephen J. Collier and AndrewLakoff).
3. Midst Anthropology's Problems. (Paul Rabinow).
Part II: Bioscience And Biological Life.
Ethics of Technoscientific Objects.
4. Stem Cells R Us: Emergent Life Forms and the GlobalBiological. (Sarah Franklin).
5. Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception. (LawrenceCohen).
6. The Iceland Controversy: Reflections on the TransnationalMarket of Civic Virtue. (Gísli Pálsson and PaulRabinow).
Value and Values.
7. Time, Money, and Biodiversity. (Geoffrey Bowker).
8. Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics, and TherapeuticCitizenship. (Vinh-Kim Nguyen).
9. The Last Commodity: Post-Human Ethics and the Global Trafficin "Fresh" Organs. (Nancy Scheper-Hughes).
Part III: Social Technologies And Disciplines.
Standards.
10. Standards and Person-Making in East Central Europe.(Elizabeth Dunn).
11. The Private Life of Numbers: Audit Firms and the Governmentof Expertise in Post-Welfare Argentina. (Andrew Lakoff).
12. Implementing Empirical Knowledge in Anthropology and IslamicAccountancy. (Bill Maurer).
Practices of Calculating Selves.
13. Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization.Toward the Re-functioning of Ethnography. (Douglas Holmes andGeorge Marcus).
14. The Discipline of Speculators. (Kate Zaloom).
15. Cultures on the Brink: Re-engineering the Soul of Capitalism- on a Global Scale. (Kris Olds and Nigel Thrift).
Managing Uncertainty.
16. Heterarchies of Value: Distributing Intelligence andOrganizing Diversity in a New Media Startup. (Monique Girard andDavid Stark).
17. Failure as an Endpoint. (Hirokazu Miyazaki and AnneliseRiles).
Part IV: Governmentality And Politics.
Governing Populations.
18. Ecologies of Expertise. Asian Governmentality in theKnowledge Society. (Aihwa Ong).
19. Globalization and Population Governance in China. (SusanGreenhalgh).
20. Budgets and Biopolitics. (Stephen J. Collier).
Security, Legitimacy, Justice.
21. State and Urban Space in Brazil: From Modernist Planning toDemocratic Interventions. (Theresa Caldeira and Jim Holston).
22. The Garrison-Entrepôt: A Mode of Governing in the ChadBasin. (Janet Roitman).
Citizenship and Ethics.
23. Biological Citizenship. (Nikolas Rose and Carlos Novas).
24. Robust Knowledge and Fragile Futures. (MarilynStrathern).
Index.
