Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems

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Offers an approach to central debates about globalization with chapters written by scholars from across the social sciences. This work examines a range of phenomena that articulate broad structural transformations: technoscience, circuits of exchange, systems of governance, and regimes of ethics or values.

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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.

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Global Assemblages presents a unique perspective on the current globalization debates. Rather than examining globalization as a marker for a new epoch or as a broad structural transformation, this volume examines specific technologies, ethical regimes, and administrative systems that articulate contemporary transformations. The chapters combine a sophisticated theoretical approach to these “global” phenomena with detailed study of the assemblages in which they become significant for individual and collective life.The contributors to the volume are leading scholars from sociology, anthropology, and geography whose research spans Africa, the Middle East, East and South Asia, North America, South America, and Europe. Their work examines the conflicts and controversies at the heart of contemporary debates, in areas such as neoliberal reform, the pharmaceutical industry, financial practices, illegal trafficking, and information technology.

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Global Assemblages presents a unique perspective on the current globalization debates. Rather than examining globalization as a marker for a new epoch or as a broad structural transformation, this volume examines specific technologies, ethical regimes, and administrative systems that articulate contemporary transformations. The chapters combine a sophisticated theoretical approach to these "global" phenomena with detailed study of the assemblages in which they become significant for individual and collective life. The contributors to the volume are leading scholars from sociology, anthropology, and geography whose research spans Africa, the Middle East, East and South Asia, North America, South America, and Europe. Their work examines the conflicts and controversies at the heart of contemporary debates, in areas such as neoliberal reform, the pharmaceutical industry, financial practices, illegal trafficking, and information technology.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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

Review

"This compelling book demonstrates how a very sophisticated anthropological perspective can transform 'globalization' into a useful tool for investigating emerging social forms and ways of ruling and living. Certainly this non-structural approach is needed—one that attends to the specificity of combinations, interactions, sites, and effects associated with the spread of technology and risk."Ulrich Beck, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München"Global Assemblages provides excellent and rich insight into a developing anthropology of the contemporary world. The intertwining of violence, capital flows, political fragmentation, and regimes of social and moral control are investigated here in what must be recognized as a major contribution to anthropological scholarship."Jonathan Friedman, L' École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and Lund University, Sweden"This volume will give assemblages of many types a good name—the authors are astute, varied, and at the top of their game; the geographies do justice to the notion of global; and the book has a core intellectual inquiry about reflexive practices that holds together its wide-ranging essays. From transplanted kidneys to research audit protocols, the uneasy interrelationships of global assemblages emerge in the fleshy details of a knotted world."Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Global Assemblages presents a unique perspective on the current globalization debates. Rather than examining globalization as a marker for a new epoch or as a broad structural transformation, this volume examines specific technologies, ethical regimes, and administrative systems that articulate contemporary transformations. The chapters combine a sophisticated theoretical approach to these global phenomena with detailed study of the assemblages in which they become significant for individual and collective life. The contributors to the volume are leading scholars from sociology, anthropology, and geography whose research spans Africa, the Middle East, East and South Asia, North America, South America, and Europe. Their work examines the conflicts and controversies at the heart of contemporary debates, in areas such as neoliberal reform, the pharmaceutical industry, financial practices, illegal trafficking, and information technology.

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?This compelling book demonstrates how a very sophisticated anthropological perspective can transform ?globalization? into a useful tool for investigating emerging social forms and ways of ruling and living. Certainly this non-structural approach is needed?one that attends to the specificity of combinations, interactions, sites, and effects associated with the spread of technology and risk.?Ulrich Beck, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München?Global Assemblages provides excellent and rich insight into a developing anthropology of the contemporary world. The intertwining of violence, capital flows, political fragmentation, and regimes of social and moral control are investigated here in what must be recognized as a major contribution to anthropological scholarship.?Jonathan Friedman, L? École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and Lund University, Sweden?This volume will give assemblages of many types a good name?the authors are astute, varied, and at the top of their game; the geographies do justice to the notion of global; and the book has a core intellectual inquiry about reflexive practices that holds together its wide-ranging essays. From transplanted kidneys to research audit protocols, the uneasy interrelationships of global assemblages emerge in the fleshy details of a knotted world.?Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz

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& "This compelling book demonstrates how a very sophisticated anthropological perspective can transform'globalization' into a useful tool for investigating emerging social forms and ways of ruling and living. Certainly this non-structural approach is needed-one that attends to the specificity of combinations, interactions, sites, and effects associated with the spread of technology and risk."Ulrich Beck, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit

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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.

Details ISBN1405123583 Short Title GLOBAL ASSEMBLAGES Language English ISBN-10 1405123583 ISBN-13 9781405123587 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Year 2004 Subtitle Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems Edited by Aihwa Ong Author Aihwa Ong Edition 1st DOI 10.1604/9781405123587 UK Release Date 2004-08-31 AU Release Date 2004-08-31 NZ Release Date 2004-08-31 US Release Date 2004-08-31 Pages 512 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd Publication Date 2004-08-31 Imprint Wiley-Blackwell Place of Publication Hoboken Alternative 9780631231752 DEWEY 306 Audience Professional & Vocational Country of Publication United Kingdom We've got this

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