Covers a broad range of geographical areas: Africa, the Middle East, East and South Asia, North Am
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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-Universität München
“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’ École des Hautes Études 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
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I Introduction 1
1 Global Assemblages, Anthropological Problems 3
Stephen J. Collier and Aihwa Ong
2 On Regimes of Living 22
Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff
3 Midst Anthropology’s Problems 40
Paul Rabinow
Part II Bioscience and Biological Life 55
Ethics of Technoscientific Objects 57
4 Stem Cells R Us: Emergent Life Forms and the Global Biological 59
Sarah Franklin
5 Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception 79
Lawrence Cohen
6 The Iceland Controversy: Reflections on the Transnational Market of Civic Virtue 91
Gísli Pálsson and Paul Rabinow
Value and Values 105
7 Time, Money, and Biodiversity 107
Geoffrey C. Bowker
8 Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics, and Therapeutic Citizenship 124
Vinh-kim Nguyen
9 The Last Commodity: Post-Human Ethics and the Global Traffic in ‘‘Fresh’’ Organs 145
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Part III Social Technologies and Disciplines 169
Standards 171
10 Standards and Person-Making in East Central Europe 173
Elizabeth C. Dunn
11 The Private Life of Numbers: Pharmaceutical Marketing in Post-Welfare Argentina 194
Andrew Lakoff
12 Implementing Empirical Knowledge in Anthropology and Islamic Accountancy 214
Bill Maurer
Practices of Calculating Selves 233
13 Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization: Toward the Re-Functioning of Ethnography 235
Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus
14 The Discipline of Speculators 253
Caitlin Zaloom
15 Cultures on the Brink: Reengineering the Soul of Capitalism – On a Global Scale 270
Kris Olds and Nigel Thrift
Managing Uncertainty 291
16 Heterarchies of Value: Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in a New Media Startup 293
Monique Girard and David Stark
17 Failure as an Endpoint 320
Hirokazu Miyazaki and Annelise Riles
Part IV Governmentality and Politics 333
Governing Populations 335
18 Ecologies of Expertise: Assembling Flows, Managing Citizenship 337
Aihwa Ong
19 Globalization and Population Governance in China 354
Susan Greenhalgh
20 Budgets and Biopolitics 373
Stephen J. Collier
Security, Legitimacy, Justice 391
21 State and Urban Space in Brazil: From Modernist Planning to Democratic Interventions 393
Teresa Caldeira and James Holston
22 The Garrison–Entrepôt: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin 417
Janet Roitman
Citizenship and Ethics 437
23 Biological Citizenship 439
Nikolas Rose and Carlos Novas
24 Robust Knowledge and Fragile Futures 464
Marilyn Strathern
Index 482
