Global Assemblages

Provides an exciting approach to some of the most contentious issues in discussions around globalization bioscientific research, neoliberalism, governance from the perspective of the "e;anthropological"e; 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.

Provides an exciting approach to some of the most contentiousissues in discussions around globalization--bioscientificresearch, neoliberalism, governance--from the perspective ofthe "anthropological" problems they pose; in other words, in termsof their implications for how individual and collective life issubject to technological, political, and ethical reflection andintervention.* * Offers a ground-breaking approach to central debates aboutglobalization with chapters written by leading scholars from acrossthe social sciences.* Examines a range of phenomena that articulate broad structuraltransformations: technoscience, circuits of exchange, systems ofgovernance, 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 MiddleEast, East and South Asia, North America, South America, andEurope.* Grapples with a number of empirical problems of popular andacademic interest -- from the organ trade, to accountancy, topharmaceutical research, to neoliberal reform.

Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xiiiPart I Introduction 11 Global Assemblages, Anthropological Problems 3Stephen J. Collier and Aihwa Ong2 On Regimes of Living 22Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff3 Midst Anthropology's Problems 40Paul RabinowPart II Bioscience and Biological Life 55Ethics of Technoscientific Objects 574 Stem Cells R Us: Emergent Life Forms and the Global Biological 59Sarah Franklin5 Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception 79Lawrence Cohen6 The Iceland Controversy: Reflections on the Transnational Market of Civic Virtue 91Gísli Pálsson and Paul RabinowValue and Values 1057 Time, Money, and Biodiversity 107Geoffrey C. Bowker8 Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics, and Therapeutic Citizenship 124Vinh-kim Nguyen9 The Last Commodity: Post-Human Ethics and the Global Traffic in ''Fresh'' Organs 145Nancy Scheper-HughesPart III Social Technologies and Disciplines 169Standards 17110 Standards and Person-Making in East Central Europe 173Elizabeth C. Dunn11 The Private Life of Numbers: Pharmaceutical Marketing in Post-Welfare Argentina 194Andrew Lakoff12 Implementing Empirical Knowledge in Anthropology and Islamic Accountancy 214Bill MaurerPractices of Calculating Selves 23313 Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization: Toward the Re-Functioning of Ethnography 235Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus14 The Discipline of Speculators 253Caitlin Zaloom15 Cultures on the Brink: Reengineering the Soul of Capitalism - On a Global Scale 270Kris Olds and Nigel ThriftManaging Uncertainty 29116 Heterarchies of Value: Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in a New Media Startup 293Monique Girard and David Stark17 Failure as an Endpoint 320Hirokazu Miyazaki and Annelise RilesPart IV Governmentality and Politics 333Governing Populations 33518 Ecologies of Expertise: Assembling Flows, Managing Citizenship 337Aihwa Ong19 Globalization and Population Governance in China 354Susan Greenhalgh20 Budgets and Biopolitics 373Stephen J. CollierSecurity, Legitimacy, Justice 39121 State and Urban Space in Brazil: From Modernist Planning to Democratic Interventions 393Teresa Caldeira and James Holston22 The Garrison-Entrepôt: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin 417Janet RoitmanCitizenship and Ethics 43723 Biological Citizenship 439Nikolas Rose and Carlos Novas24 Robust Knowledge and Fragile Futures 464Marilyn StrathernIndex 482