Aihwa Ong | |
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王愛華 | |
![]() Ong in 2016 | |
Born | |
Occupation | Professor of Anthropology |
Known for | Anthropologist, Professor & Author |
Academic background | |
Education | Barnard College (B.A.) Columbia University (Ph.D.)[1] |
Thesis | Women and Industry: Malay Peasants in Coastal Selangor, 1975-80[2] (1982[2]) |
Doctoral advisor | Joan Vincent, Myron Cohen, Robert F. Murphy[2] |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Anthropology |
Sub-discipline | Sociocultural anthropology, anthropology of Southeast Asia |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Main interests | Science technology and society, anthropology of citizenship, neoliberalism, modernity |
Notable works | Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia; Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty; Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America; Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality; Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems |
Notable ideas | Global assemblages, flexible citizenship, graduated sovereignty, fungible life |
Website | https://www.aihwaong.info |
Aihwa Ong | |
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Chinese name | |
Traditional Chinese | 王愛華 |
Hanyu Pinyin | Wáng Àihuá |
Jyutping | Wong4 Oi3 Waa4 |
Hokkien POJ | Ông Ài-hôa |
Tâi-lô | Ông Ài-huâ |
Aihwa Ong (simplified Chinese: 王爱华; traditional Chinese: 王愛華; pinyin: Wáng Àihuá; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ông Ài-hôa; born February 1, 1950) is a 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.[3]