Global Assemblages

Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems

By: Aihwa Ong (Editor), Stephen J. Collier (Editor)

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Paperback | 6 October 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Provides an exciting approach to some of the most contentious issues in discussions around globalizationâ"bioscientific research, neoliberalism, governanceâ"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 âanthropologicalâ 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 â" from the organ trade, to accountancy, to pharmaceutical research, to neoliberal reform.

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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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