Global assemblages : technology, politics, and ethics as anthropological problems / edited by Aihwa Ong and Stephen J. Collier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ong, Aihwa.

Collier, Stephen J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Technological innovations--Social aspects.

Technological innovations.

Discoveries in science--Social aspects.

Discoveries in science.

Physical Description:

xiii, 494 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Summary:

Global Assemblages presents a unique perspective on the current globalization debates. Rather than examining globalization as a marker for a new epoch or as a broad structural transformation, this volume examines specific technologies, ethical regimes, and administrative systems that articulate contemporary transformations. The chapters combine a sophisticated theoretical approach to these ldquo; globalrdquo; phenomena with detailed study of the assemblages in which they become significant for individual and collective life. The contributors to the volume are leading scholars from sociology, anthropology, and geography whose research spans Africa, the Middle East, East and South Asia, North America, South America, and Europe. Their work examines the conflicts and controversies at the heart of contemporary debates, in areas such as neoliberal reform, the pharmaceutical industry, financial practices, illegal trafficking, and information technology.

Contents:

1 Global Assemblages, Anthropological Problems / Stephen J. Collier, Aihwa Ong 3

2 On Regimes of Living / Stephen J. Collier, Andrew Lakoff 22

3 Midst Anthropology's Problems / Paul Rabinow 40

Part II Bioscience and Biological Life 55

Ethics of Technoscientific Objects 57

4 Stem Cells R Us: Emergent Life Forms and the Global Biological / Sarah Franklin 59

5 Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception / Lawrence Cohen 79

6 The Iceland Controversy: Reflections on the Transnational Market of Civic Virtue / Gisli Palsson, Paul Rabinow 91

Value and Values 105

7 Time, Money, and Biodiversity / Geoffrey C. Bowker 107

8 Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics, and Therapeutic Citizenship / Vinh-kim Nguyen 124

9 The Last Commodity: Post-Human Ethics and the Global Traffic in "Fresh" Organs / Nancy Scheper-Hughes 145

Part III Social Technologies and Disciplines 169

Standards 171

10 Standards and Person-Making in East Central Europe / Elizabeth C. Dunn 173

11 The Private Life of Numbers: Pharmaceutical Marketing in Post-Welfare Argentina / Andrew Lakoff 194

12 Implementing Empirical Knowledge in Anthropology and Islamic Accountancy / Bill Maurer 214

Practices of Calculating Selves 233

13 Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization: Toward the Re-Functioning of Ethnography / Douglas R. Holmes, George E. Marcus 235

14 The Discipline of Speculators / Caitlin Zaloom 253

15 Cultures on the Brink: Reengineering the Soul of Capitalism - On a Global Scale / Kris Olds, Nigel Thrift 270

Managing Uncertainty 291

16 Heterarchies of Value: Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in a New Media Startup / Monique Girard, David Stark 293

17 Failure as an Endpoint / Hirokazu Miyazaki, Annelise Riles 320

Part IV Governmentality and Politics 333

Governing Populations 335

18 Ecologies of Expertise: Assembling Flows, Managing Citizenship / Aihwa Ong 337

19 Globalization and Population Governance in China / Susan Greenhalgh 354

20 Budgets and Biopolitics / Stephen J. Collier 373

Security, Legitimacy, Justice 391

21 State and Urban Space in Brazil: From Modernist Planning to Democratic Interventions / Teresa Caldeira, James Holston 393

22 The Garrison-Entrepot: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin / Janet Roitman 417

Citizenship and Ethics 437

23 Biological Citizenship / Nikolas Rose, Carlos Novas 439

24 Robust Knowledge and Fragile Futures / Marilyn Strathern 464.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0631231757

1405123583

OCLC:

53932585