Faculty and Researchers with STS Interests - Profile

Paul Rabinow
Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley


Email: rabinow@berkeley.edu

Paul Rabinow's work has consistently centered on modernity as a problem: problem for those seeking to live with its diverse forms, a problem for those seeking to advance or resist modern projects of power and knowledge. This work has ranged from descendants of a Moroccan saint coping with the changes wrought by colonial and post-colonial regimes, to the wide array of knowledges and power relations entailed in the great assemblage of social planning in France, to his work of the last decade on molecular biology and genomics. He is currently working on an NSF funded project on the "Global Biopolitics of Security" with Stephen Collier and Andrew Lakoff, located at the Molecular Sciences Institute. His work will center on "zones of virulence and their regulation under a security regime." Specifically he is doing some work on avian flu and Foucault's concept of "the milieu" as well as a project on synthetic biology as a new field.

Website: http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/rabinow.html

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