Global Assemblages
Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems
1. Auflage August 2004
512 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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.
Part II: Bioscience And Biological Life.
Part III: Social Technologies And Disciplines
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
Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Stephen J. Collier is a faculty member at the Graduate
Program in International Affairs, The New School University.
