Global Assemblages

This title 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. It offers a ground-breaking approach to central debates about globalization with chapters written by leading scholars from across the social sciences.It examines a range of phenomena that articulate broad structural transformations: technoscience, circuits of exchange, systems of governance, and regimes of ethics or values. It investigates these phenomena from the perspective of the 'anthropologica' problems they pose. It covers a broad range of geographical areas: Africa, the Middle East, East and South Asia, North America, South America, and Europe. It grapples with a number of empirical problems of popular and academic interest - from the organ trade, to accountancy, to pharmaceutical research, to neoliberal reform.

ISBN 1405123583   Pages 512 ISBN13 9781405123587 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 886 Imprint Blackwell Publishing Ltd   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Height (mm) 246 Publication date 31 Aug 2004   Width (mm) 173 Library of Congress HM831.G49   Spine width (mm) 28 DEWEY 303.4   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22   Alternative ISBN 9780470696569

Pt. I		Introduction		1
1		Global assemblages, anthropological problems by Stephen J. Collier and Aihwa Ong		3
2		On regimes of living by Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff		22
3		Midst anthropology's problems by Paul Rabinow		40
Pt. II		Bioscience and biological life		55
4		Stem cells R us : emergent life forms and the global biological by Sarah Franklin		59
5		Operability, bioavailability, and exception by Lawrence Cohen		79
6		The Iceland controversy : reflections on the transnational market of civic virtue by Gisli Palsson and Paul Rabinow		91
7		Time, money, and biodiversity by Geoffrey C. Bowker		107
8		Antiretroviral globalism, biopolitics, and therapeutic citizenship by Vinh-kim Nguyen		124
9		The last commodity : post-human ethics and the global traffic in "fresh" organs by Nancy Scheper-Hughes		145
Pt. III		Social technologies and disciplines		169
10		Standards and person-making in East Central Europe by Elizabeth C. Dunn		173
11		The private life of numbers : pharmaceutical marketing in post-welfare Argentina by Andrew Lakoff		194
12		Implementing empirical knowledge in anthropology and Islamic accountancy by Bill Maurer		214
13		Cultures of expertise and the management of globalization : toward the re-functioning of ethnography by Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus		235
14		The discipline of speculators by Caitlin Zaloom		253
15		Cultures on the brink : reengineering the soul of capitalism - on a global scale by Kris Olds and Nigel Thrift		270
16		Heterarchies of value : distributing intelligence and organizing diversity in a new media startup by Monique Girard and David Stark		293
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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-Universitat Munchen "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' Ecole des Hautes Etudes 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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