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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: Enigmatic Variations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Inventing a City of Life -- PART I. RISKS -- 1 Where the Wild Genes Are -- 2 An Atlas of Asian Diseases -- 3 Smoldering Fire -- PART II. UNCERTAINTIES -- 4 The Productive Uncertainty of Bioethics -- 5 Virtue and Expatriate Scientists -- 6 Perturbing Life -- PART III. KNOWN UNKNOWNS -- 7 A Single Wave -- 8 "Viruses Don't Carry Passports" -- 9 The "Athlete Gene" in China's Future -- Epilogue: A DNA Bridge and an Octopus's Garden -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Neoliberalism as Exception, Exception to Neoliberalism -- I. Ethics in Contention -- 1. Sisterly Solidarity: Feminist Virtue under ''Moderate Islam'' -- 2. Cyberpublics and the Pitfalls of Diasporic Chinese Politics -- II. Spaces of Governing -- 3. Graduated Sovereignty -- 4. Zoning Technologies in East Asia -- III. Circuits of Expertise -- 5. Latitudes, or How Markets Stretch the Bounds of Governmentality -- 6. Higher Learning in Global Space -- 7. Labor Arbitrage: Displacements and Betrayals in Silicon Valley -- IV. The Edge of Emergence -- 8. Baroque Ecology, E√ervescent Citizenship -- 9. A Biocartography: Maids, Neoslavery, and ngos -- 10. Reengineering the ''Chinese Soul'' in Shanghai? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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 tells the story of Cambodian Americans experiencing American citizenship from the bottom-up. Based on extensive fieldwork in Oakland and San Francisco

AbstractThis essay shows that regardless of existing laws and prominent female leaders, gender justice as a value must be attuned to the situated ethics of the majority populations in order to gain social legitimacy. Since the 1980s, NGO movements for reformasi, or reform, and democrasi have intervened on women's behalf in a variety of areas—Muslim feminism, political violence, and the abuse of maids, sex workers, and migrants. They have had to modify rights-based strategies in accordance with religious, legal, and economic conditions. Universalizing gender rights articulate situated fields of power that contest or qualify imposed regulatory systems of humanitarian values. It is important to acknowledge that gender justice intervenes in webs of power that can thwart its regulation as well as form new alliances of solidarity. Gender justice and rights cannot be unilaterally imposed, but are transmitted and translated through negotiations with situated religious and citizenship norms. In postcolonial milieus, ideals of gender justice interact with diverse ethical regimes to shape the conditions of possibility for problematizing gender and possible solutions to gender inequality that cannot be predetermined.

- The outsourcing of work is today, for the American middle class, cause of a real obsession. The middle-class, for the first time, fears, from a point of view of working, of being left to drift. The author of this essay tells the complex, and far from obvious, dynamics of purchase of labor between the United States of America and the great new emerging powers (India and China, first of all) in the knowledge economy.