Investigate how modern science, technology, political systems, and ethical dilemmas interact across borders to shape contemporary human societies.
Interdisciplinary collection of anthropological essays and theoretical analyses across 494 pages edited by Aihwa Ong and Stephen J. Collier.
Defines and articulates the concept of global assemblages to study emergent, mobile phenomena that cross traditional cultural and political boundaries.
Examines the restructuring of power, ethics, and governance in response to rapidly evolving technological and global systems.
Abstract
Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems . Aihwa Ong and Stephen J. Collier, eds. Williston, VT: Blackwell Publishers, 2005. 494 pp.