Global Assemblages

Aihwa Ong is Professor of Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.Stephen J. Collier is a faculty member at the Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School University.

“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

• 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