Global Assemblages - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1405123583 ISBN 13 : 9781405123587

Editeur : WB, 2004

Synopsis

This title 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. It offers a ground-breaking approach to central debates about globalization with chapters written by leading scholars from across the social sciences.It examines a range of phenomena that articulate broad structural transformations: technoscience, circuits of exchange, systems of governance, and regimes of ethics or values. It investigates these phenomena from the perspective of the 'anthropologica' problems they pose. It covers a broad range of geographical areas: Africa, the Middle East, East and South Asia, North America, South America, and Europe. It grapples with a number of empirical problems of popular and academic interest - from the organ trade, to accountancy, to pharmaceutical research, to neoliberal reform.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

This compelling book demonstrates how a very sophisticated 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

Quatrième de couverture :

Global Assemblages presents a unique perspective on the current globalization debates. Rather than examining globalization as a marker for a new epoch or as a broad structural transformation, this volume examines specific technologies, ethical regimes, and administrative systems that articulate contemporary transformations. The chapters combine a sophisticated theoretical approach to these global phenomena with detailed study of the assemblages in which they become significant for individual and collective life.

The contributors to the volume are leading scholars from sociology, anthropology, and geography whose research spans Africa, the Middle East, East and South Asia, North America, South America, and Europe. Their work examines the conflicts and controversies at the heart of contemporary debates, in areas such as neoliberal reform, the pharmaceutical industry, financial practices, illegal trafficking, and information technology.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: WB
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1405123583
• ISBN 13: 9781405123587
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512