Global assemblages : technology, politics, and ethics as anthropological problems

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Global assemblages : technology, politics, and ethics as anthropological problems

edited by Aihwa Ong and Stephen J. Collier ; [Geoffrey C. Bowker ... et al.]

Blackwell Pub., 2005

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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: cloth ISBN 9780631231752

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Part I: Introduction. 1. Global Assemblages, Anthropological Problems. (Stephen J. Collier and Aihwa Ong). 2. On Regimes of Living. (Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff). 3. Midst Anthropology's Problems. (Paul Rabinow). Part II: Bioscience And Biological Life. Ethics of Technoscientific Objects. 4. Stem Cells R Us: Emergent Life Forms and the Global Biological. (Sarah Franklin). 5. Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception. (Lawrence Cohen). 6. The Iceland Controversy: Reflections on the Transnational Market of Civic Virtue. (Gisli Palsson and Paul Rabinow). Value and Values. 7. Time, Money, and Biodiversity. (Geoffrey Bowker). 8. Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics, and Therapeutic Citizenship. (Vinh-Kim Nguyen). 9. The Last Commodity: Post-Human Ethics and the Global Traffic in "Fresh" Organs. (Nancy Scheper-Hughes). Part III: Social Technologies And Disciplines. Standards. 10. Standards and Person-Making in East Central Europe. (Elizabeth Dunn). 11. The Private Life of Numbers: Audit Firms and the Government of Expertise in Post-Welfare Argentina. (Andrew Lakoff). 12. Implementing Empirical Knowledge in Anthropology and Islamic Accountancy. (Bill Maurer). Practices of Calculating Selves. 13. Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization. Toward the Re-functioning of Ethnography. (Douglas Holmes and George Marcus). 14. The Discipline of Speculators. (Kate Zaloom). 15. Cultures on the Brink: Re-engineering the Soul of Capitalism - on a Global Scale. (Kris Olds and Nigel Thrift). Managing Uncertainty. 16. Heterarchies of Value: Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in a New Media Startup. (Monique Girard and David Stark). 17. Failure as an Endpoint. (Hirokazu Miyazaki and Annelise Riles). Part IV: Governmentality And Politics. Governing Populations. 18. Ecologies of Expertise. Asian Governmentality in the Knowledge Society. (Aihwa Ong). 19. Globalization and Population Governance in China. (Susan Greenhalgh). 20. Budgets and Biopolitics. (Stephen J. Collier). Security, Legitimacy, Justice. 21. State and Urban Space in Brazil: From Modernist Planning to Democratic Interventions. (Theresa Caldeira and Jim Holston). 22. The Garrison-Entrepot: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin. (Janet Roitman). Citizenship and Ethics. 23. Biological Citizenship. (Nikolas Rose and Carlos Novas). 24. Robust Knowledge and Fragile Futures. (Marilyn Strathern). Index.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9781405123587

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiii Part I Introduction 1 1 Global Assemblages, Anthropological Problems 3 Stephen J. Collier and Aihwa Ong 2 On Regimes of Living 22 Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff 3 Midst Anthropology's Problems 40 Paul Rabinow Part II Bioscience and Biological Life 55 Ethics of Technoscientific Objects 57 4 Stem Cells R Us: Emergent Life Forms and the Global Biological 59 Sarah Franklin 5 Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception 79 Lawrence Cohen 6 The Iceland Controversy: Reflections on the Transnational Market of Civic Virtue 91 Gisli Palsson and Paul Rabinow Value and Values 105 7 Time, Money, and Biodiversity 107 Geoffrey C. Bowker 8 Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics, and Therapeutic Citizenship 124 Vinh-kim Nguyen 9 The Last Commodity: Post-Human Ethics and the Global Traffic in ''Fresh'' Organs 145 Nancy Scheper-Hughes Part III Social Technologies and Disciplines 169 Standards 171 10 Standards and Person-Making in East Central Europe 173 Elizabeth C. Dunn 11 The Private Life of Numbers: Pharmaceutical Marketing in Post-Welfare Argentina 194 Andrew Lakoff 12 Implementing Empirical Knowledge in Anthropology and Islamic Accountancy 214 Bill Maurer Practices of Calculating Selves 233 13 Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization: Toward the Re-Functioning of Ethnography 235 Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus 14 The Discipline of Speculators 253 Caitlin Zaloom 15 Cultures on the Brink: Reengineering the Soul of Capitalism - On a Global Scale 270 Kris Olds and Nigel Thrift Managing Uncertainty 291 16 Heterarchies of Value: Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in a New Media Startup 293 Monique Girard and David Stark 17 Failure as an Endpoint 320 Hirokazu Miyazaki and Annelise Riles Part IV Governmentality and Politics 333 Governing Populations 335 18 Ecologies of Expertise: Assembling Flows, Managing Citizenship 337 Aihwa Ong 19 Globalization and Population Governance in China 354 Susan Greenhalgh 20 Budgets and Biopolitics 373 Stephen J. Collier Security, Legitimacy, Justice 391 21 State and Urban Space in Brazil: From Modernist Planning to Democratic Interventions 393 Teresa Caldeira and James Holston 22 The Garrison-Entrepot: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin 417 Janet Roitman Citizenship and Ethics 437 23 Biological Citizenship 439 Nikolas Rose and Carlos Novas 24 Robust Knowledge and Fragile Futures 464 Marilyn Strathern Index 482

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