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Aihwa Ong

    January 1, 1950

    Aihwa Ong is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work delves deeply into the dynamics of power, globalization, and the transformations of identity in the modern world. Ong explores how neoliberalism and transnationalism shape and reshape our experience of citizenship and sovereignty.

    Global Assemblages
    • 2005

      Global Assemblages

      • 512 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      4.1(43)Add rating

      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.

      Global Assemblages