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Aihwa Ong

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Social Anthropology

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#62

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Aihwa Ong's Degrees

PhD Anthropology Stanford University
Masters Anthropology Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Aihwa Ong is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, a member of the Science Council of the International Panel on Social Progress, and a former recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship for the study of sovereignty and citizenship. She is well known for her interdisciplinary approach in investigations of globalization, modernity, and citizenship from Southeast Asia and China to the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Her notions of 'flexible citizenship', 'graduated sovereignty,' and 'global assemblages' have widely impacted conceptions of the global in modernity across the social sciences and humanities. She is specifically interested in the connection and links between an array of social sciences such as; sociocultural anthropology, urban studies, and science and technology studies, as well as medicine and the arts.

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Aihwa Ong's Published Works

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Neoliberalism as exception (2006) (2249)
Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality (1999) (1677)
Global assemblages : technology, politics, and ethics as anthropological problems (2005) (1306)
Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States [and Comments and Reply] (1996) (950)
Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia, Aihwa Ong. 1987. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY. 268 pages. Index. ISBN: 0-88706-380-2. $39.50 (1988) (924)
Worlding cities : Asian experiments and the art of being global (2011) (745)
Neoliberalism as a mobile technology (2007) (672)
Global Assemblages Anthropological Problems (2008) (599)
Buddha is hiding: refugees, citizenship, the new America (2003) (541)
Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism (1996) (537)
Introduction: Worlding Cities, or the Art of being Global (2011) (323)
Graduated Sovereignty in South-East Asia (2000) (289)
State versus Islam: Malay families, women's bodies, and the body politic in Malaysia (1990) (283)
Mutations in Citizenship (2006) (253)
Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia (1996) (201)
On the Edge of Empires: Flexible Citizenship among Chinese in Diaspora (1993) (160)
The Gender and Labor Politics of Postmodernity (2020) (155)
Buddha Is Hiding (2019) (146)
Privatizing China : socialism from afar (2017) (144)
Chinese Transnationalism as an Alternative Modernity (2003) (136)
CYBERPUBLICS AND DIASPORA POLITICS AMONG TRANSNATIONAL CHINESE (2003) (113)
The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia (1988) (103)
Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate (2010) (101)
Hyperbuilding: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace of Sovereignty (2011) (89)
The Chinese Axis: Zoning Technologies and Variegated Sovereignty (2004) (85)
Please Stay: Pied-a-Terre Subjects in the Megacity (2007) (82)
Ecologies of Expertise: Assembling Flows, Managing Citizenship (2008) (81)
Introduction: Privatizing China Powers of the Self, Socialism from Afar (2017) (79)
Strategic Sisterhood or Sisters in Solidarity? Questions of Communitarianism and Citizenship in Asia (1996) (76)
The anthropology of politics : a reader in ethnography, theory, and critique (2002) (75)
Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life (2016) (63)
(Re)Articulations of Citizenship (2005) (62)
Anthropology, China and modernities: the geopolitics of cultural knowledge (2003) (60)
“What Marco Polo Forgot” (2012) (57)
Experiments with Freedom: Milieus of the Human (2006) (48)
Limits to Cultural Accumulation: Chinese Capitalists on the American Pacific Rim (1992) (46)
Scales of exception: Experiments with knowledge and sheer life in tropical Southeast Asia (2008) (44)
Introduction: An Analytics of Biotechnology and Ethics at Multiple Scales (2010) (33)
Disassembling Gender in the Electronics Age (1987) (31)
‘A momentary glow of fraternity’: Narratives of Chinese nationalism and capitalism (1997) (29)
Powers of sovereignty: State, people, wealth, life (2012) (25)
Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline, Second Edition: Factory Women in Malaysia (2010) (25)
Women's work and women's roles : economics and everyday life in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore (1985) (23)
Muslim feminism: Citizenship in the shelter of corporatist Islam 1 (1999) (23)
Zoning Technologies in East Asia (2006) (20)
Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia. (1996) (20)
Boundary crossings Neoliberalism as a mobile technology (2007) (20)
11. Self-fashioning Shanghainese: Dancing across Spheres of Value (2017) (19)
The carpenter and the bricoleur (2014) (19)
Bewitching Women, Pious Men (2017) (16)
Globalization and New Strategies of Ruling in Developing Countries (2002) (12)
Splintering Cosmopolitanism: Asian Immigrants and Zones of Autonomy in the American West (2009) (12)
A Milieu of Mutations: The Pluripotency and Fungibility of Life in Asia (2013) (12)
Oikos/Anthropos: Rationality, Technology, Infrastructure (2003) (11)
What Marco Polo Forgot: Contemporary Chinese Art Reconfigures the Global (2012) (11)
Techno-Migrants in the Network Economy (2004) (10)
Translating Gender Justice in Southeast Asia: Situated Ethics, NGOs, and Bio-Welfare (2011) (10)
Modernity: Anthropological Aspects (2001) (9)
Lifelines: The Ethics of Blood Banking for Family and Beyond (2010) (8)
1. Private Homes, Distinct Lifestyles Performing a New Middle Class (2017) (8)
10. Post-Mao Professionalism Self-enterprise and Patriotism (2017) (7)
“A Better Tomorrow”? The Struggle for Global Visibility (1997) (7)
A Biocartography: Maids, Neoslavery, and ngos (2006) (7)
Urban Assemblages: An Ecological Sense of the Knowledge Economy (2004) (5)
Citizenship in the midst of transnational regimes of virtue (2009) (4)
Chapter 1. Anthropological Concepts for the Study of Nationalism (2005) (4)
Sisterly Solidarity: Feminist Virtue under “Moderate Islam” (2006) (4)
Buoyancy: Blue Territorialization of Asian Power (2020) (4)
13. Privatizing Control Internet Cafés in China (2017) (3)
Opinions: The Anthropology of Finance (2013) (3)
Baroque Ecology, Effervescent Citizenship (2006) (3)
Corporate Players, New Cosmopolitans, and Guanxi in Shanghai (2020) (3)
Why Singapore Trumps Iceland (2015) (3)
2. Property Rights and Homeowner Activism in New Neighborhoods (2017) (3)
Southeast Asian Refugees and Investors in Our Midst (1995) (2)
Re-Engineering the “Chinese Soul” in Shanghai? (2009) (2)
Neoliberal as Political Technology (2012) (2)
Refugee Medicine: Attracting and Deflecting the Gaze (2003) (2)
3. Socialist Land Masters The Territorial Politics of Accumulation (2017) (2)
12. Living Buddhas, Netizens, and the Price of Religious Freedom (2017) (2)
Assembling around SARS: Technology, Body Heat, and Political Fever in Risk Society (2020) (2)
Fengshui and the Limits to Cultural Accumulation (2007) (2)
Labor Arbitrage: Displacements and Betrayals in Silicon Valley (2006) (2)
Beyond Scholarly Disciplines and Gender-Essentialism@@@Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia@@@Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia (1998) (1)
Rescuing the Children (2003) (1)
Citizenship: flexible, fungible, fragile (2022) (1)
WHY SINGAPORE TRUMPS ICELAND Gathering genes in the wild (2015) (1)
Japanese Factories, Malay Workers (2017) (1)
9. Wild Consumption Relocating Responsibilities in the Time of SARS (2017) (1)
Refugee Love as Feminist Compassion (2003) (1)
Chapter 4. Citizenship (2008) (1)
Forest for Whom?: Ethnic Politics of Conservation in Northern Thailand, 1996-2001 (2002) (1)
8. Should I Quit? Tobacco, Fraught Identity, and the Risks of Governmentality (2017) (1)
The Refugee as an Ethical Figure (2003) (1)
4.3 'STATE VERSUS ISLAM: MALAY FAMILIES, WOMEN'S BODIES AND THE BODY POLITIC IN MALAYSIA' (2003) (0)
Asian Sites of Emergence (2006) (0)
Journal of Cultural Economy Why Singapore Trumps Iceland (2015) (0)
A Hilton in the Border Zone (2003) (0)
Across the Pacific: Asian Americans and Globalization (review) (2000) (0)
Flexible Citizenship among Chinese in Diaspora (1993) (0)
Part I. In Pol Pot Time (2019) (0)
Virtue and Expatriate Scientists (2016) (0)
BEYOND SCHOLARLY DISCIPLINES AND GENDER-ESSENTIALISM' (2016) (0)
6. Neoliberalism and Hmong/Miao Transnational Media Ventures (2017) (0)
Title WHY SINGAPORE TRUMPS ICELAND Gathering genes in the wild Permalink (2015) (0)
PART III. Church and Marketplace (2019) (0)
Book Review Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate (2012) (0)
On Critical Globality (2009) (0)
Introduction: Inventing a City of Life (2016) (0)
An Anthropologist at Davos (2022) (0)
Globalization and New Ruling Strategies in Developing Countries (2002) (0)
Oikos/Anthropos: Rationality, Technology, Infrastructure - eScholarship (2003) (0)
Epilogue: A DNA Bridge and an Octopus’s Garden (2016) (0)
Landscapes of (un)knowability (2018) (0)
PART IV. Reconfigurations of Citizenship (2019) (0)
Keeping the House from Burning Down (2003) (0)
Globalisation and the Asia-Pacific: Contested Terrains . Edited by Kris Olds, Peter Dicken, Philip F. Kelly, Lily Kong and Henry Wai-Chung Yeung. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. xvi, 293 pp. $100.00 (cloth); $32.99 (paper). (2000) (0)
“Viruses Don’t Carry Passports” (2016) (0)
A Single Wave (2016) (0)
Guns, Gangs, and Doughnut Kings (2003) (0)
nese market women, Jennifer Krier on a Minangkabau Malay woman’s protest, and Michael Peletz on Malay wives and husbands in Rembau) concern women’s and men’s perceptions of themselves and the ways (2001) (0)
Higher Learning in Global Space (2006) (0)
The Ambivalence of Salvation (2003) (0)
The Productive Uncertainty of Bioethics (2016) (0)
Introduction: Government and Citizenship (2019) (0)
The “Athlete Gene” in China’s Future (2016) (0)
Land of No More Hope (2003) (0)
Cyberpublics and the Pitfalls of Diasporic Chinese Politics (2006) (0)
The uses of “family” and guanxi: Flexibility and violence (2003) (0)
Afterword: Assemblages of Human Needs (2019) (0)
Materialism in the netherworld. (2002) (0)
Where the Wild Genes Are (2016) (0)
The Struggle for Global Visibility (1997) (0)
Asian Immigrants as the New Westerners (2003) (0)
Women and industry : Malay peasants in coastal Selangor, 1975-80 (1984) (0)
Latitudes, or How Markets Stretch the Bounds of Governmentality (2006) (0)
4. Tax Tensions Struggles over Income and Revenue (2017) (0)
Book Review: International and Comparative Industrial Relations: Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia (2003) (0)
An Atlas of Asian Diseases (2016) (0)

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