{"product_id":"global-assemblages-9781405123587","title":"Global Assemblages","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvides an exciting approach to some of the most contentious issues in discussions around globalizationbioscientific research, neoliberalism, governancefrom 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 Am\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407861162327,"sku":"9781405123587","price":33.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405123587.jpg?v=1730500770","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/global-assemblages-9781405123587","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}