Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological ProblemsISBN: 978-0-631-23175-2
Hardcover
512 pages
October 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.