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
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]
^Ong, Aihwa (2015). "Aihwa Ong - Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 22, 2016. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
^ abcOng, Ai-hwa (1982). Women and Industry: Malay Peasants in Coastal Selangor, 1975-80 (Ph.D.). ProQuest 303061008.
AihwaOng (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...
identities that accompanies the growing globalization. The term was coined by AihwaOng in her publication Flexible Citizenship: The cultural logics of transnationality...
programmes, but seek to submerge these within a greater whole. According to AihwaOng, the term differs from that of transnationalism, as transnationalism refers...
the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2015. Roy, Ananya; Aihwa, Ong (2011). Worlding cities: Asian experiments and the art of being global...
from the original on 5 March 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2013. Roy, Ananya; Aihwa, Ong (2011). Worlding cities: Asian experiments and the art of being global...
Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520920866. OCLC 45732193. Aihwa, Ong (2003). Buddha is hiding : refugees, citizenship, the new America. Berkeley:...
2015 agricultural output of Telangana based on 2011 prices Roy, Ananya; Aihwa, Ong (2011). Worlding cities: Asian experiments and the art of being global...
Jacobs Henri Lefebvre David Ley Peter Marcuse Doreen Massey Don Mitchell AihwaOng Gillian Rose (geographer) Ananya Roy Neil Smith (geographer) Allen J....
Elizabeth C. (2005). "Standards and Person-Making in East Central Europe", in AihwaOng and Stephen J. Collier (eds.). Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics...
at Barnard College, 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction finalist AihwaOng (1974), American anthropologist and professor at University of California...
conservationist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, artist Cynthia Moss, natural historian AihwaOng, anthropologist Dirk Obbink, classicist and papyrologist Norman R. Pace...
Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World, 1998 AihwaOng, Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality, 1999 Sally...
irrational and archaic beliefs into a modern setting. Anthropologist AihwaOng noted that spirit possession beliefs in Malaysia were typically held by...
Guggenheim Fellow E. Francis White, historian Alan H. Goodman, anthropologist AihwaOng, anthropologist, MacArthur Fellow Leonard Glick, anthropologist, historian...
Lamphere, Faye V. Harrison, Lila Abu-Lughod, Catherine Lutz, Kirin Narayan, AihwaOng, and Anna Tsing. Women Writing Culture has been cited as part of anthropology's...
to Foucault and Political Reason, 1996.) 'Biological Citizenship', in AihwaOng and Stephen Collier, eds., Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and...
Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia, ed. AihwaOng and Michael G. Peletz, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995...
Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global. Co-Editor: AihwaOng. Blackwell: SUSC Series. 2008. The Practice of International Health. Oxford...
berkeley.edu. October 23, 2017. Retrieved September 26, 2019. "Prof. AihwaOng takes over as CSEAS Chair". ieas.berkeley.edu. July 1, 2019. Retrieved...
Melissa (2009). Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter. Oxford: Berghahn. Ong, Aihwa (1987). Spirits of resistance and capitalist discipline: factory women...
historian 1885 1950 Agnès Humbert French art historian 1894-10-12 1963-09-19 AihwaOng Malaysian sociocultural anthropologist 1950-02-01 Aileen Fox English archaeologist...
is in the public domain. Country Studies. Federal Research Division. Ong, Aihwa (1987) [1st. pub.]. Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory...
Archived from the original on 6 May 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2011. Ong, Aihwa (1998). "Flexible Citizenship among Chinese Cosmopolitans". In Cheah,...
“A Malaysian Folklore Game Design,” 198. Nicholas & Ganapathy, p. 174. Ong, Aihwa (1988). "The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation...
The Express Tribune. 2015-08-07. Retrieved 2021-10-11. Roy, Ananya; Ong, Aihwa (2011). Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global...
The Indonesian Town Revisited, Münster: LIT Verlag, ISBN 981-230-184-4 Ong, Aihwa; Nonini, Donald (2004), Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern...
Buising Paz Márquez-Benítez Liwayway Magazine, November 17, 1963, issue Ong, Aihwa; Peletz, Michael G. (1995). Bewitching women, pious men : gender and body...
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