books by Aihwa Ong (neoliberalism ethnographic anthropology)

books by Aihwa Ong

books:

Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty

1 review
Aihwa Ong

Duke University Press, 2006

The State of Exception in East Asia
Carl Schmidt defined sovereignty as ultimately the power to call a state of exception to the normalized condition of the law. Drawing on the German philosopher, Giorgio Agamben uses the exception as a fundamental principle of state rule that is predicated on the division between citizen in a judicial order and outsiders stripped of juridical and political protections. Aihwa Ong, a Berkeley ...

Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality

4 reviews
Aihwa Ong

Duke University Press, 1998

very important work
This is a great book. Much more thoughtful than most of the more fashionable post-colonial or globalization writers. Ong demonstrates how the Chinese transnational community confounds notions of peripheral non-westerners, or transnational community as weapon of the weak. She also demonstrates how the contemporary world is creating the context for the rise of China. The ultimate antidote to ...

Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America (Public Anthropology, 5)
Aihwa Ong

University of California Press, 2003

Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be self-reliant, individualistic, and free, even as the system and the culture constrain them within terms of ethnicity, race, and class. Buddha Is Hiding ...

Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline (Suny Series in Anthropology of Work)

4 reviews
Aihwa Ong

State University of New York Press, 1987

Ong's work is necessary in any discussion of globalization.
The American Dream. An ideal, the golden land, something to strive for, capitalism. For most immigrants of the early twentieth century, the "American" way of life was sought after as a better way than that found in the old country. Imagine the dilemma posed to you if that same type of capitalistic market was forced onto you, the villager of rural Malaysia, never having wanted a change in ...

Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems

2 reviews

Wiley-Blackwell, 2004

The best collection this decade
This book is a collection of the most exciting work being done in sociocultural anthropology and the social sciences more broadly. The innovation of this ethnographic research is that the authors examine their topics through very technical analyses, finding the ethical dimensions, often through expert interlocutors. A key premise of Global Assemblages is that epistemology (how to know) and ...

Privatizing China: Socialism from Afar

1 review

Cornell University Press, 2008

Strong contribution to understand the emerging society in China
Privatizing China discussed a very timely topic about the development of new form of society in China. Specifically, it is about a new social, that was badly understood by some western writings. The authors, within their specific encounters with Chinese culture, articulated the process of creating new private spaces for each individuals and institutions. From new apartments, to internet cafes, ...

Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia

1 review

University of California Press, 1995

gender studies of Southeast Asia
This is a mixture of Southeast Asian studies and gender studies. Though most of the articles are by women, some are by men. Though most articles are by people with European last names, there are some contributors with Asian names. Like many gender studies anthologies, there is more information on femininity than masculinity. However, I blame no one since men's studies is such a recently ...

Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism
Aihwa Ong

Routledge, 1996

In the last two decades, Chinese transnationalism has become a distinctive domain within the new "flexible" capitalism emerging in the Asia-Pacific region. Ungrounded Empires maps this domain as the intersection of cultural politics and global capitalism, drawing on recent ethnographic research to critique the impact of late capitalism's institutions--flexibility, travel, subcontracting, multiculturalism, and mass media--upon transnational ...

Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy

Duke University Press, 2006

With the NASDAQ having lost 70 percent of its value, the giddy, optimistic belief in perpetual growth that accompanied the economic boom of the 1990s had fizzled by 2002. Yet the advances in information and communication technology, management and production techniques, and global integration that spurred the ?New Economy? of the 1990s had triggered profound and lasting changes. Frontiers of Capital brings together ethnographies exploring how ...