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Global Assemblages (eBook, PDF)

Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems

Redaktion: Ong, Aihwa; Collier, Stephen J.

Beschreibung

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.

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 2.34MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470695814
• Artikelnr.: 38204757

Rezensionen

"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 Cruz