Aihwa Ong

Neoliberalism as Exception

Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A successor to FLEXIBLE CITIZENSHIP, focusing on the meanings of citizenship to different classes of immigrants and transnational subjects.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337362
• ISBN-10: 0822337363
• Artikelnr.: 21131028

Autorenporträt

Aihwa Ong is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems (coedited with Stephen J. Collier); Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America; and Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality, winner of the Association for Asian American Studies’ Cultural Studies Book Award and also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Neoliberalism as Exception, Exception to Neoliberalism 1
I. Ethics in Contention
1. Sisterly Solidarity: Feminist Virtue under “Moderate Islam” 31
2. Cyberpublics and the Pitfalls of Diasporic Chinese Politics 53
II. Spaces of Governing
3. Graduated Sovereignty 75
4. Zoning Technologies in East Asia 97
III. Circuits of Expertise
5. Latitudes, or How Markets Stretch the Bounds of Governmentality 121
6. Higher Learning in Global Space 139
7. Labor Arbitrage: Displacements and Betrayals in Silicon Valley 157
IV. The Edge of Emergence
8. Baroque Ecology, Effervescent Citizenship 177
9. A Biocartography: Maids, Neoslavery, and NGOs 195
10. Reengineering the “Chinese Soul” in Shanghai? 219
Notes 241
Bibliography 261
Index 279