By Aihwa Ong, Stephen J. Collier
Presents a thrilling method of the most contentious concerns in discussions round globalization—bioscientific study, neoliberalism, governance—from the viewpoint of the "anthropological" difficulties they pose; in different phrases, by way of their implications for the way person and collective lifestyles is topic to technological, political, and moral mirrored image and intervention.
- Offers a ground-breaking method of significant debates approximately globalization with chapters written by means of top students from around the social sciences.
- Examines more than a few phenomena that articulate huge structural ameliorations: technoscience, circuits of alternate, structures of governance, and regimes of ethics or values.
- Investigates those phenomena from the viewpoint of the “anthropological” difficulties they pose.
- Covers a vast diversity of geographical parts: Africa, the center East, East and South Asia, North the USA, South the United States, and Europe.
- Grapples with a couple of empirical difficulties of well known and educational curiosity — from the organ exchange, to accountancy, to pharmaceutical study, to neoliberal reform.
Content:
Chapter 1 worldwide Assemblages Anthropological difficulties (pages 3–21): Stephen J. Collier and Aihwa Ong
Chapter 2 On Regimes of residing (pages 22–39): Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff
Chapter three Midst Anthropology's difficulties (pages 40–53): Paul Rabinow
Chapter four Stem Cells R Us: Emergent existence types and the worldwide organic (pages 59–78): Sarah Franklin
Chapter five Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception (pages 79–90): Lawrence Cohen
Chapter 6 The Iceland Controversy: Reflections at the Transnational marketplace of Civic advantage (pages 91–103): Gisli Palsson and Paul Rabinow
Chapter 7 Time, funds, and Biodiversity (pages 107–123): Geoffrey C. Bowker
Chapter eight Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics, and healing Citizenship (pages 124–144): Vinh?Kim Nguyen
Chapter nine The final Commodity: Post?Human Ethics and the worldwide site visitors in “Fresh” Organs (pages 145–167): Nancy Scheper?Hughes
Chapter 10 criteria and Person?Making in East relevant Europe (pages 173–193): Elizabeth C. Dunn
Chapter eleven the non-public lifetime of Numbers: Pharmaceutical advertising in Post?Welfare Argentina (pages 194–213): Andrew Lakoff
Chapter 12 enforcing Empirical wisdom in Anthropology and Islamic Accountancy (pages 214–231): invoice Maurer
Chapter thirteen Cultures of craftsmanship and the administration of Globalization: towards the Re?Functioning of Ethnography (pages 235–252): Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus
Chapter 14 The self-discipline of Speculators (pages 253–269): Caitlin Zaloom
Chapter 15 Cultures at the breaking point: Reengineering the Soul of Capitalism — On a world Scale (pages 270–290): Kris Olds and Nigel Thrift
Chapter sixteen Heterarchies of price: dispensing Intelligence and Organizing variety in a brand new Media Startup (pages 293–319): Monique Girard and David Stark
Chapter 17 Failure as an Endpoint (pages 320–331): Hirokazu Miyazaki and Annelise Riles
Chapter 18 Ecologies of craftsmanship: Assembling Flows, coping with Citizenship (pages 337–353): Aihwa Ong
Chapter 19 Globalization and inhabitants Governance in China (pages 354–372): Susan Greenhalgh
Chapter 20 Budgets and Biopolitics (pages 373–390): Stephen J. Collier
Chapter 21 nation and concrete house in Brazil: From Modernist making plans to Democratic Interventions (pages 393–416): Teresa Caldeira and James Holston
Chapter 22 The Garrison?Entrepot: a method of Governing within the Chad Basin (pages 417–436): Janet Roitman
Chapter 23 organic Citizenship (pages 439–463): Nikolas Rose and Carlos Novas
Chapter 24 strong wisdom and Fragile Futures (pages 464–481): Marilyn Strathern
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Collier and andrew lakoff love – might be used to destabilize taken-for-granted ethical judgments about organ sales. Roitman neither celebrates nor condemns the life of banditry so much as she uses its analysis to inquire into the structure of ethical positionings around the legality or illegality of failed states. Finally, Caldeira and Holston cautiously treat the substantial gains of squatter movements in the democratization of the 1990s, examining the tensions between the extension of political franchise and the erosion of public space that has resulted from deregulation and neoliberal reform.
110. 12 MacIntyre, After Virtue, pp. 110–111, p. 10. 13 Charles Taylor, ‘‘Justice after Virtue,’’ in After MacIntyre: A Critical Perspective on the Work of Alasdair MacIntyre, John Horton and Susan Mendus, eds. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994). As Michel Foucault’s work on the human sciences would seem to suggest, this use of ‘‘anthropology’’ is clearly anachronistic: see Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Vintage, 1973). 14 MacIntyre, After Virtue, p.
20 Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958). 21 Arendt, The Human Condition, pp. 36–37. 22 Taylor, ‘‘Justice after Virtue,’’ p. 31. 23 See Leo Strauss, The City and Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964). 24 MacIntyre, After Virtue, p. 133. 25 MacIntyre’s emphasis on the ability of Aristotelian ethics to accommodate itself to a more modern understanding of an ethics embedded in a cultural tradition is a distinctive feature of his reading of Aristotle.