{"product_id":"global-assemblages-9780631231752","title":"Global Assemblages","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Global Assemblages, Anthropological Problems. (Stephen J. Collier and Aihwa Ong).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. On Regimes of Living. (Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Midst Anthropology's Problems. (Paul Rabinow).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Bioscience And Biological Life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEthics of Technoscientific Objects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Stem Cells R Us: Emergent Life Forms and the Global Biological. (Sarah Franklin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception. (Lawrence Cohen).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Iceland Controversy: Reflections on the Transnational Market of Civic Virtue. (Gísli Pálsson and Paul Rabinow).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eValue and Values.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Time, Money, and Biodiversity. (Geoffrey Bowker).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics, and Therapeutic Citizenship. (Vinh-Kim Nguyen).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. The Last Commodity: Post-Human Ethics and the Global Traffic in \"Fresh\" Organs. (Nancy Scheper-Hughes).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Social Technologies And Disciplines.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStandards.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Standards and Person-Making in East Central Europe. (Elizabeth Dunn).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The Private Life of Numbers: Audit Firms and the Government of Expertise in Post-Welfare Argentina. (Andrew Lakoff).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Implementing Empirical Knowledge in Anthropology and Islamic Accountancy. (Bill Maurer).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePractices of Calculating Selves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization. Toward the Re-functioning of Ethnography. (Douglas Holmes and George Marcus).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. The Discipline of Speculators. (Kate Zaloom).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Cultures on the Brink: Re-engineering the Soul of Capitalism - on a Global Scale. (Kris Olds and Nigel Thrift).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eManaging Uncertainty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Heterarchies of Value: Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in a New Media Startup. (Monique Girard and David Stark).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Failure as an Endpoint. (Hirokazu Miyazaki and Annelise Riles).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Governmentality And Politics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoverning Populations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Ecologies of Expertise. Asian Governmentality in the Knowledge Society. (Aihwa Ong).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Globalization and Population Governance in China. (Susan Greenhalgh).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Budgets and Biopolitics. (Stephen J. Collier).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecurity, Legitimacy, Justice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. State and Urban Space in Brazil: From Modernist Planning to Democratic Interventions. (Theresa Caldeira and Jim Holston).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. The Garrison-Entrepôt: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin. (Janet Roitman).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCitizenship and Ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Biological Citizenship. (Nikolas Rose and Carlos Novas).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. Robust Knowledge and Fragile Futures. (Marilyn Strathern).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403453473111,"sku":"9780631231752","price":101.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631231752.jpg?v=1730483518","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/global-assemblages-9780631231752","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}