Aihwa Ong, Stephen J. Collier, Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems
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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.
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