Anthropologies of modernity : Foucault, governmentality, and life politics
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Anthropologies of modernity : Foucault, governmentality, and life politics
Blackwell Publishing, 2005
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgments.
Analytics of Modern: An Introduction.
Part I: Colonial Reasons.
1. Colonial Governmentality. (David Scott).
2. Foucault in the Tropics: Displacing the Panopticon. (Peter Redfield).
Part II: Global Governance.
3. Graduated Sovereignty in South East Asia. (Aihwa Ong).
4. Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality. (James Ferguson and Akhil Gupta).
Part III: Technico Sciences.
5. Performing Criminal Anthropology: Science, Popular Wisdom, and the Body. (David Horn).
6. Science and Citizenship under Postsocialism. (Adriana Petryna).
Part IV: Biosocial Subjects.
7. Artificiality and Enlightenment: From Sociobiology to Biosociality. (Paul Rabinow).
8. Flexible Eugenics: Technologies of Self in the Age of Genetics. (Karen-Sue Taussig, Rayna Rapp, and Deborah Heath).
Part V: Necropolitical Projects.
9. Life During Wartime: Guatemala, Vitality, Conspiracy, Milieu. (Diane M. Nelson) 10. Technologies of Invisibility: Politics of Life and Social Inequality. (Joao Biehl).
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