Anthropologies of Modernity Foucault Governmentality and Life Politics 1st Edition by Jonathan Xavier Inda ISBN 978-0631228264 0631228268

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ISBN 10: 0631228268

ISBN 13:  978-0631228264

Author:  Jonathan Xavier Inda

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.

Table of contents: 

1. Notes on Contributors
2. Acknowledgments
3. Analytics of Modern: An Introduction

Part I: Colonial Reasons
4. Colonial Governmentality (David Scott)
5. Foucault in the Tropics: Displacing the Panopticon (Peter Redfield)

Part II: Global Governance
6. Graduated Sovereignty in South East Asia (Aihwa Ong)
7. Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality (James Ferguson and Akhil Gupta)

Part III: Technico Sciences
8. Performing Criminal Anthropology: Science, Popular Wisdom, and the Body (David Horn)
9. Science and Citizenship under Postsocialism (Adriana Petryna)

Part IV: Biosocial Subjects
10. Artificiality and Enlightenment: From Sociobiology to Biosociality (Paul Rabinow)
11. Flexible Eugenics: Technologies of Self in the Age of Genetics (Karen-Sue Taussig, Rayna Rapp, and Deborah Heath)

Part V: Necropolitical Projects
12. Life During Wartime: Guatemala, Vitality, Conspiracy, Milieu (Diane M. Nelson)
13. Technologies of Invisibility: Politics of Life and Social Inequality (João Biehl)

14. Index

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