Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics As Anthropological Problems
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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.
Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and Ethics As Anthropological Problems,Aihwa Ong,Stephen J. Collier,Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated,1405123583,Anthropology - General,Discoveries in science,General,Globalization,Social Science,Social aspects,Social change,Sociology,Technological innovations,Anthropology,Ethical issues & debates,POLITICS & GOVERNMENT,Science / History
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