Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems (Repost)

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. Content: Chapter 1 Global Assemblages Anthropological Problems (pages 3–21): Stephen J. Collier and Aihwa OngChapter 2 On Regimes of Living (pages 22–39): Stephen J. Collier and Andrew LakoffChapter 3 Midst Anthropology's Problems (pages 40–53): Paul RabinowChapter 4 Stem Cells R Us: Emergent Life Forms and the Global Biological (pages 59–78): Sarah FranklinChapter 5 Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception (pages 79–90): Lawrence CohenChapter 6 The Iceland Controversy: Reflections on the Transnational Market of Civic Virtue (pages 91–103): Gisli Palsson and Paul RabinowChapter 7 Time, Money, and Biodiversity (pages 107–123): Geoffrey C. BowkerChapter 8 Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics, and Therapeutic Citizenship (pages 124–144): Vinh?Kim NguyenChapter 9 The Last Commodity: Post?Human Ethics and the Global Traffic in “Fresh” Organs (pages 145–167): Nancy Scheper?HughesChapter 10 Standards and Person?Making in East Central Europe (pages 173–193): Elizabeth C. DunnChapter 11 The Private Life of Numbers: Pharmaceutical Marketing in Post?Welfare Argentina (pages 194–213): Andrew LakoffChapter 12 Implementing Empirical Knowledge in Anthropology and Islamic Accountancy (pages 214–231): Bill MaurerChapter 13 Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization: Toward the Re?Functioning of Ethnography (pages 235–252): Douglas R. Holmes and George E. MarcusChapter 14 The Discipline of Speculators (pages 253–269): Caitlin ZaloomChapter 15 Cultures on the Brink: Reengineering the Soul of Capitalism — On a Global Scale (pages 270–290): Kris Olds and Nigel ThriftChapter 16 Heterarchies of Value: Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in a New Media Startup (pages 293–319): Monique Girard and David StarkChapter 17 Failure as an Endpoint (pages 320–331): Hirokazu Miyazaki and Annelise RilesChapter 18 Ecologies of Expertise: Assembling Flows, Managing Citizenship (pages 337–353): Aihwa OngChapter 19 Globalization and Population Governance in China (pages 354–372): Susan GreenhalghChapter 20 Budgets and Biopolitics (pages 373–390): Stephen J. CollierChapter 21 State and Urban Space in Brazil: From Modernist Planning to Democratic Interventions (pages 393–416): Teresa Caldeira and James HolstonChapter 22 The Garrison?Entrepot: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin (pages 417–436): Janet RoitmanChapter 23 Biological Citizenship (pages 439–463): Nikolas Rose and Carlos NovasChapter 24 Robust Knowledge and Fragile Futures (pages 464–481): Marilyn Strathern