Global Assemblages

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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.

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Aihwa Ong

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Anthropologie Anthropology Cultural Studies Kulturwissenschaften Social & Cultural Anthropology Soziale u. kulturelle Anthropologie

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"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
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