InnoNation Reloaded

Amazon.com: Neoliberalism as Exception : Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty: Books: Aihwa Ong

Neoliberalism is commonly viewed as an economic doctrine that seeks to limit the scope of government. Some consider it a form of predatory capitalism with adverse effects on the South. In this groundbreaking work, Aihwa Ong offers an alternative view of neoliberalism as an extraordinarily malleable technology of governing that is taken up in different ways by different regimes, be they authoritarian, democratic, or communist. Ong shows how East and Southeast Asian states are making exceptions to their usual practices of governing in order to position themselves to compete in the global economy. As she demonstrates, a variety of neoliberal strategies of governing are re-engineering political spaces and populations. Ong’s ethnographic case studies illuminate experiments and developments such as China’s creation of special market zones within its socialist economy; pro-capitalist Islam and women’s rights in Malaysia; Singapore’s re-positioning as a hub of scientific expertise; and flexible labor and knowledge regimes that span the Pacific.?

Ong真是讓人佩服的人類學者，對時代變遷的敏銳，對研究議程的掌握，功力都讓人驚豔。

這本書，已經明確地打開了「新自由主義國家策略比較研究」的研究領域。

當然，「例外」，在此是相對於各社會舊有的統治型態而界定出來的，這種界定 exceptionality 的方式，與民主的議題似乎關連應該不大，而應該是聯繫著 modernity 的 problematic吧。

（這樣使用 exceptionality的概念，有什麼政治社會學的意義呢？存疑一番。）

唉，該去找書了。