{"product_id":"global-assemblages-isbn-9781405123587","title":"Global Assemblages","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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a ground-breaking approach to central debates about globalization with chapters written by leading scholars from across the social sciences.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines a range of phenomena that articulate broad structural transformations: technoscience, circuits of exchange, systems of governance, and regimes of ethics or values.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInvestigates these phenomena from the perspective of the “anthropological” problems they pose.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers a broad range of geographical areas: Africa, the Middle East, East and South Asia, North America, South America, and Europe.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGrapples with a number of empirical problems of popular and academic interest — from the organ trade, to accountancy, to pharmaceutical research, to neoliberal reform.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Introduction 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Global Assemblages, Anthropological Problems 3\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephen J. Collier and Aihwa Ong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 On Regimes of Living 22\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Midst Anthropology’s Problems 40\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul Rabinow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Bioscience and Biological Life 55\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEthics of Technoscientific Objects 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Stem Cells R Us: Emergent Life Forms and the Global Biological 59\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSarah Franklin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception 79\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLawrence Cohen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Iceland Controversy: Reflections on the Transnational Market of Civic Virtue 91\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGísli Pálsson and Paul Rabinow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eValue and Values 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Time, Money, and Biodiversity 107\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeoffrey C. Bowker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics, and Therapeutic Citizenship 124\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVinh-kim Nguyen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Last Commodity: Post-Human Ethics and the Global Traffic in ‘‘Fresh’’ Organs 145\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNancy Scheper-Hughes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Social Technologies and Disciplines 169\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStandards 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Standards and Person-Making in East Central Europe 173\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElizabeth C. Dunn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Private Life of Numbers: Pharmaceutical Marketing in Post-Welfare Argentina 194\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew Lakoff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Implementing Empirical Knowledge in Anthropology and Islamic Accountancy 214\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBill Maurer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePractices of Calculating Selves 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization: Toward the Re-Functioning of Ethnography 235\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDouglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The Discipline of Speculators 253\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCaitlin Zaloom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Cultures on the Brink: Reengineering the Soul of Capitalism – On a Global Scale 270\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKris Olds and Nigel Thrift\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eManaging Uncertainty 291\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Heterarchies of Value: Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in a New Media Startup 293\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMonique Girard and David Stark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Failure as an Endpoint 320\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHirokazu Miyazaki and Annelise Riles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Governmentality and Politics 333\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoverning Populations 335\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Ecologies of Expertise: Assembling Flows, Managing Citizenship 337\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAihwa Ong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Globalization and Population Governance in China 354\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan Greenhalgh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Budgets and Biopolitics 373\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephen J. Collier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecurity, Legitimacy, Justice 391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 State and Urban Space in Brazil: From Modernist Planning to Democratic Interventions 393\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTeresa Caldeira and James Holston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 The Garrison–Entrepôt: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin 417\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJanet Roitman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCitizenship and Ethics 437\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Biological Citizenship 439\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNikolas Rose and Carlos Novas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Robust Knowledge and Fragile Futures 464\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarilyn Strathern\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 482\u003c\/p\u003e  “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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUlrich Beck, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGlobal Assemblages\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Friedman, L’ École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand Lund University, Sweden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDonna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eAihwa Ong\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen J. Collier\u003c\/b\u003e is a faculty member at the Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School University.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003eGlobal Assemblages\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989292597477,"sku":"NP9781405123587","price":68.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405123587.jpg?v=1761783546","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/global-assemblages-isbn-9781405123587","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}