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9780470695814

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470695814

  • ISBN10:

    0470695811

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Global Assemblages, Anthropological Problems
On Regimes of Living
Midst Anthropology's Problems
Bioscience And Biological Life
Ethics of Technoscientific Objects
Stem Cells R Us: Emergent Life Forms and the Global Biological
Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception
The Iceland Controversy: Reflections on the Transnational Market of Civic Virtue
Value and Values
Time, Money, and Biodiversity
Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics, and Therapeutic Citizenship
The Last Commodity: Post-Human Ethics and the Global Traffic in "Fresh" Organs
Social Technologies And Disciplines
Standards
Standards and Person-Making in East Central Europe
The Private Life of Numbers: Audit Firms and the Government of Expertise in Post-Welfare Argentina
Implementing Empirical Knowledge in Anthropology and Islamic Accountancy
Practices of Calculating Selves
Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization. Toward the Re-functioning of Ethnography
The Discipline of Speculators
Cultures on the Brink: Re-engineering the Soul of Capitalism - on a Global Scale
Managing Uncertainty
Heterarchies of Value: Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in a New Media Startup
Failure as an Endpoint
Governmentality And Politics
Governing Populations
Ecologies of Expertise. Asian Governmentality in the Knowledge Society
Globalization and Population Governance in China
Budgets and Biopolitics
Security, Legitimacy, Justice
State and Urban Space in Brazil: From Modernist Planning to Democratic Interventions
The Garrison-Entrepôt: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin
Citizenship and Ethics
Biological Citizenship
Robust Knowledge and Fragile Futures
Index
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