Global Assemblages

PUBLICATION DATE: October 15, 2004
ISBN - 10: 1405123583

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.