ONG A AIHWA / COLLIER J STEPHEN J

Broschiertes Buch

Global Assemblages

Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems

Herausgeber: Ong, Aihwa; Collier, Stephen J

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 874g
• ISBN-13: 9781405123587
• ISBN-10: 1405123583
• Artikelnr.: 21366628

Rezensionen

"This compelling book demonstrates how a very sophisticatedanthropological perspective can transform'globalization' into a useful tool for investigatingemerging social forms and ways of ruling and living. Certainly thisnon-structural approach is needed--one that attends to thespecificity of combinations, interactions, sites, and effectsassociated with the spread of technology and risk."

Ulrich Beck, Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversitätMünchen

"Global Assemblages provides excellent and richinsight into a developing anthropology of the contemporary world.The intertwining of violence, capital flows, politicalfragmentation, and regimes of social and moral control areinvestigated here in what must be recognized as a majorcontribution to anthropological scholarship."

Jonathan Friedman, L' École des Hautes Étudesen Sciences Sociales, Paris and Lund University,Sweden

"This volume will give assemblages of many types a goodname--the authors are astute, varied, and at the top of theirgame; the geographies do justice to the notion of global; and thebook has a core intellectual inquiry about reflexive practices thatholds together its wide-ranging essays. From transplanted kidneysto research audit protocols, the uneasy interrelationships ofglobal assemblages emerge in the fleshy details of a knottedworld."

Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz