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Lively Capital is an urgent and important collection of essays addressing the reconfigured relations between the life sciences and the market. Exploring the ground where social and cultural anthropology intersect with science and technology studies, prominent scholars investigate the relationship of biotechnology to ethics, governance, and markets, as well as the new legal, social, cultural, and institutional mechanisms emerging to regulate biotechnology. The contributors examine genomics, pharmaceutical marketing, intellectual property, environmental science, clinical trials, patient advocacy, and other such matters as they are playing out in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Lively Capital is not only about the commercialization of the life sciences, but their institutional histories, epistemic formations, and systems of valuation. It is also about the lively affects-the emotions and desires-involved when technologies and research impinge on experiences of embodiment, kinship, identity, disability, citizenship, accumulation, and dispossession. At stake in the commodification of the life sciences are opportunities to intervene in and adjudicate matters of health, life, and death.
Biotechnology has changed the life sciences as more and more research is funded around commercial opportunities, rather than pure-science goals. This can be seen in health and pharmaceutical research, genomics, and the environment. This collection of anthropology of science essays explores the new forms of capital, markets, ethical, legal, and intellectual property concerns associated with these new forms of research. The collection features many of the scholars central to the Experimental Futures series project, including series editors Dumit and Fischer, guiding inspiration Donna Haraway, and recent Cultural Anthropology editors Kim and Mike Fortun.
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Reviews
"Lively Capital is a terrific collection of essays, an important endeavor which will garner serious attention not only in anthropology and science technology studies but across the human sciences. It will be as widely read as any anthology I can imagine, because of the sharpness of its essays and the diversity of its approaches to the challenges of rethinking the relations of life, capital, and value more generally."-Lawrence Cohen, author of No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
"Lively Capital is a terrific collection of essays, an important endeavor which will garner serious attention not only in anthropology and science and technology studies but across the human sciences. It will be as widely read as any anthology I can imagine, because of the sharpness of its essays and the diversity of its approaches to the challenges of rethinking the relations of life, capital, and value more generally."-Lawrence Cohen, author of No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
"The air we breathe, the dogs with whom we cohabit, the children we breed, and the pharmaceuticals we regulate co-evolve simultaneously with the differential capitalization of life forms, life sciences, and life circumstances. Convincing us that 'lively capital' is, indeed, a living social form, these essays provide a stunningly provocative read!"-Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America
"In many ways, Lively Capital reflects both the challenges and the benefits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach to researching an issue. As a result, the book provides a thought-provoking read for those with an interest in the processes of commodification and in the politics of emerging bioeconomies." -- Brett Edwards * BioScience *
"Lively Capital is a challenging, fiercely analytical, and ambitious collection of thirteen essays, tied together by an excellent introduction and epilogue by the editor, Kaushik Sunder Rajan. . . . It is rare to find an edited volume that covers so many diverse and seemingly disparate topics and yet demonstrates such symmetry between its individual contributions." -- Todd Myers * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *
Book Information
ISBN 9780822348313
Author Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Format Paperback
Page Count 528
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 735g
Contributors. Timothy Choy, Joseph Dumit, Michael M. J. Fischer, Kim Fortun, Mike Fortun, Donna Haraway, Sheila Jasanoff, Wen-Hua Kuo, Andrew Lakoff, Kristin Peterson, Chloe Silverman, Elta Smith, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Travis J. Tanner
Biotechnology has changed the life sciences as more and more research is funded around commercial opportunities, rather than pure-science goals. This can be seen in health and pharmaceutical research, genomics, and the environment. This collection of anthropology of science essays explores the new forms of capital, markets, ethical, legal, and intellectual property concerns associated with these new forms of research. The collection features many of the scholars central to the Experimental Futures series project, including series editors Dumit and Fischer, guiding inspiration Donna Haraway, and recent Cultural Anthropology editors Kim and Mike Fortun.
About the Author
Kaushik Sunder Rajan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews
"Lively Capital is a terrific collection of essays, an important endeavor which will garner serious attention not only in anthropology and science technology studies but across the human sciences. It will be as widely read as any anthology I can imagine, because of the sharpness of its essays and the diversity of its approaches to the challenges of rethinking the relations of life, capital, and value more generally."-Lawrence Cohen, author of No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
"Lively Capital is a terrific collection of essays, an important endeavor which will garner serious attention not only in anthropology and science and technology studies but across the human sciences. It will be as widely read as any anthology I can imagine, because of the sharpness of its essays and the diversity of its approaches to the challenges of rethinking the relations of life, capital, and value more generally."-Lawrence Cohen, author of No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
"The air we breathe, the dogs with whom we cohabit, the children we breed, and the pharmaceuticals we regulate co-evolve simultaneously with the differential capitalization of life forms, life sciences, and life circumstances. Convincing us that 'lively capital' is, indeed, a living social form, these essays provide a stunningly provocative read!"-Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America
"In many ways, Lively Capital reflects both the challenges and the benefits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach to researching an issue. As a result, the book provides a thought-provoking read for those with an interest in the processes of commodification and in the politics of emerging bioeconomies." -- Brett Edwards * BioScience *
"Lively Capital is a challenging, fiercely analytical, and ambitious collection of thirteen essays, tied together by an excellent introduction and epilogue by the editor, Kaushik Sunder Rajan. . . . It is rare to find an edited volume that covers so many diverse and seemingly disparate topics and yet demonstrates such symmetry between its individual contributions." -- Todd Myers * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *
Book Information
ISBN 9780822348313
Author Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Format Paperback
Page Count 528
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 735g
