Aihwa Ong è Professoressa di Antropologia all'Università della California, Berkeley. Il suo lavoro approfondisce le dinamiche di potere, la globalizzazione e le trasformazioni dell'identità nel mondo moderno. Ong esplora come il neoliberismo e la transnazionalità plasmano e rimodellano la nostra esperienza di cittadinanza e sovranità.
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.
This ethnographic study explores the lives of Malay women working in factories, highlighting their experiences, struggles, and resilience in a rapidly changing economic landscape. It examines the intersection of gender, labor, and cultural identity, providing a nuanced understanding of how these women navigate their roles within both the workplace and their communities. The new edition offers updated insights and reflections, making it a vital resource for understanding contemporary issues related to labor and gender in Malaysia.
Are nation-states being transformed by globalisation into a single globalised economy? Do global cultural forces herald a postnational millennium? Tying ethnography to structural analysis, this title explores such questions with a focus on the links between the cultural logics of human action and on economic and political processes.
Tells the story of Cambodian Americans experiencing American citizenship from the bottom-up. This study aims to put a human face on how American institutions - of health, welfare, law, police, church, and industry - affect minority citizens as they negotiate American culture and re-interpret the American dream. schovat popis
Through a series of ethnographic case studies, Aihwa Ong reconceptualizes neoliberalism as an extraordinarily malleable technology of governing that is taken up in different ways by different regimes, be they authoritarian, democratic, or communist.
In Fungible Life Aihwa Ong traces the revolutionary scientific developments in Asia by investigating how biomedical centers in Biopolis, Singapore and China mobilize ethnicized Asian bodies and health data for genomic research.