Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I Introduction 1
1 Global Assemblages, Anthropological Problems 3 Stephen J. Collier and Aihwa Ong
2 On Regimes of Living 22 Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff
3 Midst Anthropology’s Problems 40 Paul Rabinow
Part II Bioscience and Biological Life 55
Ethics of Technoscientific Objects 57
4 Stem Cells R Us: Emergent Life Forms and the Global Biological 59 Sarah Franklin
5 Operability, Bioavailability, and Exception 79 Lawrence Cohen
6 The Iceland Controversy: Reflections on the Transnational Market of Civic Virtue 91 Gísli Pálsson and Paul Rabinow
Value and Values 105
7 Time, Money, and Biodiversity 107 Geoffrey C. Bowker
8 Antiretroviral Globalism, Biopolitics, and Therapeutic Citizenship 124 Vinh-kim Nguyen
9 The Last Commodity: Post-Human Ethics and the Global Traffic in ‘‘Fresh’’ Organs 145 Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Part III Social Technologies and Disciplines 169
Standards 171
10 Standards and Person-Making in East Central Europe 173 Elizabeth C. Dunn
11 The Private Life of Numbers: Pharmaceutical Marketing in Post-Welfare Argentina 194 Andrew Lakoff
12 Implementing Empirical Knowledge in Anthropology and Islamic Accountancy 214 Bill Maurer
Practices of Calculating Selves 233
13 Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization: Toward the Re-Functioning of Ethnography 235 Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus
14 The Discipline of Speculators 253 Caitlin Zaloom
15 Cultures on the Brink: Reengineering the Soul of Capitalism – On a Global Scale 270 Kris Olds and Nigel Thrift
Managing Uncertainty 291
16 Heterarchies of Value: Distributing Intelligence and Organizing Diversity in a New Media Startup 293 Monique Girard and David Stark
17 Failure as an Endpoint 320 Hirokazu Miyazaki and Annelise Riles
Part IV Governmentality and Politics 333
Governing Populations 335
18 Ecologies of Expertise: Assembling Flows, Managing Citizenship 337 Aihwa Ong
19 Globalization and Population Governance in China 354 Susan Greenhalgh
20 Budgets and Biopolitics 373 Stephen J. Collier
Security, Legitimacy, Justice 391
21 State and Urban Space in Brazil: From Modernist Planning to Democratic Interventions 393 Teresa Caldeira and James Holston
22 The Garrison–Entrepôt: A Mode of Governing in the Chad Basin 417 Janet Roitman
Citizenship and Ethics 437
23 Biological Citizenship 439 Nikolas Rose and Carlos Novas
24 Robust Knowledge and Fragile Futures 464 Marilyn Strathern
Index 482