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Anthropologies of Modernity : Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics



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Autore: Inda Jonathan Xavier Visualizza persona
Titolo: Anthropologies of Modernity : Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
Disciplina: 301
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Soggetto topico: Culture and globalization
Culture and globaliztion
Foucault, Michel
Philosophy
Political anthropology
Political anthropology - Philosophy
Politics and culture
Anthropology
Social Sciences
Social & Cultural Anthropology
Persona (resp. second.): IndaJonathan Xavier
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Anthropologies of Modernity; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Analytics of the Modern: An Introduction; Part I Colonial Reasons; 1 Colonial Governmentality; 2 Foucault in the Tropics: Displacing the Panopticon; Part II Global Governance; 3 Graduated Sovereignty in South-East Asia; 4 Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography; Part III Technico Sciences; 5 Performing Criminal Anthropology: Science,; 6 Science and Citizenship under Postsocialism; Part IV Biosocial Subjects; 7 Artificiality and Enlightenment: From Sociobiology to Biosociality
8 Flexible Eugenics: Technologies of the Self in the Age of GeneticsPart V Necropolitical Projects; 9 Life During Wartime: Guatemala, Vitality, Conspiracy, Milieu; 10 Technologies of Invisibility: Politics of Life and Social Inequality; Index
Sommario/riassunto: This book brings together a range of anthropological writings that are inspired by the French philosopher Michel Foucault and examine Foucault's contribution to current theories of modernity. Treats modernity as an ethnographic object by focusing on its concrete manifestations. Tackles issues of broad interest: from colonialism and globalization to war, genetics, and AIDS. Draws on work from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. Contributors include James Ferguson, Akhil Gupta, Aihwa Ong, Paul Rabinow, and Rayna Rapp.</li
Titolo autorizzato: Anthropologies of Modernity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-28567-2
9786610285679
0-470-70445-4
0-470-77587-4
1-4051-5302-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910876572103321
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