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Anthropologies of Modernity (eBook, PDF)

Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics

Redaktion: Inda, Jonathan Xavier

Beschreibung

This book brings together a range of anthropological writings that are inspired by the French philosopher Michel Foucault and examine Foucault's contribution to current theories of modernity.

• Treats modernity as an ethnographic object by focusing on its concrete manifestations.
• Tackles issues of broad interest: from colonialism and globalization to war, genetics, and AIDS.
• Draws on work from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.
• Contributors include James Ferguson, Akhil Gupta, Aihwa Ong, Paul Rabinow, and Rayna Rapp.

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
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• Größe: 3.12MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Jonathan Xavier Inda teaches anthropology and global cultural studies in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Among his previous publications are the co-edited volumes Race, Identity and Citizenship (Blackwell Publishing, 1999) and The Anthropology of Globalization (Blackwell Publishing, 2002).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405153027
• Artikelnr.: 38281580

Rezensionen

"This is one of the best collections of its kind. Written byleading anthropologists, this volume takes up Foucault'schallenge to modern knowledge and significantly expands thediscourse on our current cultural and epistemologicalpredicament." Bill Maurer, University of California,Irvine

"Ranging across colonialism, globalization, technoscience,biosociality, and necropolitics, each gem in this superblyintegrated collection demonstrates how anthropologists inspired byFoucault's ideas about modern government can transcend hisEurocentrism while building on his original provocations."John Gledhill, University of Manchester