Neoliberalism as Exception

Informationen zum Autor Aihwa Ong is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems (coedited with Stephen J. Collier); Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America; and Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality, winner of the Association for Asian American Studies' Cultural Studies Book Award and also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext A successor to FLEXIBLE CITIZENSHIP, focusing on the meanings of citizenship to different classes of immigrants and transnational subjects. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements ix Introduction: Neoliberalism as Exception, Exception to Neoliberalism 1 I. Ethics in Contention 1. Sisterly Solidarity: Feminist Virtue under Moderate Islam 31 2. Cyberpublics and the Pitfalls of Diasporic Chinese Politics 53 II. Spaces of Governing 3. Graduated Sovereignty 75 4. Zoning Technologies in East Asia 97 III. Circuits of Expertise 5. Latitudes, or How Markets Stretch the Bounds of Governmentality 121 6. Higher Learning in Global Space 139 7. Labor Arbitrage: Displacements and Betrayals in Silicon Valley 157 IV. The Edge of Emergence 8. Baroque Ecology, Effervescent Citizenship 177 9. A Biocartography: Maids, Neoslavery, and NGOs 195 10. Reengineering the Chinese Soul in Shanghai? 219 Notes 241 Bibliography 261 Index 279

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A successor to FLEXIBLE CITIZENSHIP, focusing on the meanings of citizenship to different classes of immigrants and transnational subjects.

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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.

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Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Neoliberalism as Exception, Exception to Neoliberalism 1
I. Ethics in Contention

1. Sisterly Solidarity: Feminist Virtue under “Moderate Islam” 31
2. Cyberpublics and the Pitfalls of Diasporic Chinese Politics 53
   II. Spaces of Governing
3. Graduated Sovereignty 75
4. Zoning Technologies in East Asia 97
   III. Circuits of Expertise
5. Latitudes, or How Markets Stretch the Bounds of Governmentality 121
6. Higher Learning in Global Space 139
7. Labor Arbitrage: Displacements and Betrayals in Silicon Valley 157
   IV. The Edge of Emergence
8. Baroque Ecology, Effervescent Citizenship 177
9. A Biocartography: Maids, Neoslavery, and NGOs 195
10. Reengineering the “Chinese Soul” in Shanghai? 219
    Notes 241
    Bibliography 261
    Index 279