Annelise Riles
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 95452 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Annelise Riles |
| NOMBRES | Annelise |
| APELLIDO | Riles |
| FIRMA | RILES A |
| AFILIACIONES | Cornell University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 800 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Introduction to the Symposium on International Laws Public and Private
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My own pink world
What has happened to the ambitions of feminist diplomacy expressed a decade ago? Although feminist foreign policy is on the rise in the United States, and, globally, has scored important victories within multilateral institutions such as the United Nations, feminists seem to have scaled back earlier ambitions to save women everywhere from patriarchy. In the words of Barbie, they have retreated to their ‘own pink world.’ We argue that the seeds of…
Exchanging expectations
Social scientists have recently shown how markets are discursively constructed and have documented the role of central banks in these constructions. Although framed as a critique of the neoclassical economic view, this approach still operates within a narrow vision of the world as divided into distinct political, social and economic spheres. Our goal in this paper is to replace this view with an exchange-based understanding of agency and relation…
Introduction to the Symposium on The Anthropology of International Law
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Financial Citizenship
Government bailouts; negative interest rates and markets that do not behave as economic models tell us they should; new populist and nationalist movements that target central banks and central bankers as a source of popular malaise; new regional organizations and geopolitical alignments laying claim to authority over the global economy; households, consumers, and workers facing increasingly intolerable levels of inequality: these dramatic conditi…
Financial Citizenship
Propriedade como conhecimento jurídico
Esse artigo toma o renovado interesse dos antropólogos na teoria da propriedade como uma oportunidade para considerar a teoria e prática do direito como um tema etnográfico. Meu foco está em um constructo particular - o instrumento, ou as relações de meios para fins que animam tanto a teoria jurídica quanto a antropológica sobre proprie- dade.Uma análise da produção desse constructo leva-nos à conclusão deque menos do que uma crítica dos fins do …
Outputs
This essay investigates one important artefact of meeting knowledge production: outputs. It does so through the example of the activities of the members of Meridian 180, a community of Pacific Rim intellectuals collaborating on transnational legal and policy issues. For the members, the particular kind of knowledge production facilitated by Meridian 180 constitutes a response to the failures of international bureaucracy to generate and sustain a …
Beyond Bunker and Vaccine
Who was responsible for the cyberincursions upon the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that took place during the U.S. presidential campaign? Russia's “ senior most officials ”? A “ a tattooed 26-year-old ” running a server rental company in western Siberia? U.S. political party leaders and other insiders disinclined to implement “ best in class ” cybersecurity measures? Or does responsibility lie elsewhere
Introduction to Symposium on Cybersecurity and the Changing International Law of Data
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Minpo kaisei
Journal Article Minpō kaisei: keiyaku no rūru ga hyakunenburi ni kawaru [Civil Code Reform: The Rules of Contract Change After 100 Long Years] Get access Minpō kaisei: keiyaku no rūru ga hyakunenburi ni kawaru [Civil Code Reform: The Rules of Contract Change After 100 Long Years], by Takashi Uchida. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 2011, 237 pp., ¥798 (ISBN 978-4480066343) Annelise RILES Annelise RILES Cornell Law School Search for other works by this autho…
Market Collaboration
In the wake of the disasters of March 2011, financial regulators and financial-risk management experts in Japan expressed little hope that much could be done nor did they take great interest in defining possible policy interventions. This curious response to regulatory crisis coincided with a new fascination with culturalist explanations of financial markets, on the one hand, and a resort to what I term "data politics"-a politics of intensified d…
Response
Previous articleNext article FreeResponse Power and truth in Japanese ethnographyAnnelise RILESAnnelise RILESCornell University Search for more articles by this author Cornell UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAs a longstanding admirer of Japanese anthropology, and one first introduced to this field through the f…
Collateral Expertise
This essay offers an ethnographically grounded critique of and an alternative to science-studies-inflected approaches to the social studies of finance. The focus on trading as the core of finance and the analysis of trading as an analog of technoscientific practice unwittingly substantiate one of the core ideological claims of finance, that it is a discrete world whose activities are protoscientific. A focus on the legal, regulatory, and document…
The Anti-Network
Global private law has become the source of both anxiety and euphoria. Inherent in this fascination is the assumption that global private law threatens the legitimacy of the state by taking over its functions through new techniques of governance. In this article, I build upon research in one arena of global private governance, the production of legal documentation for the global swap markets, to challenge the most prominent assumptions about priv…
Failure as an Endpoint
This chapter contains section titled: Retreat from Knowledge Knowing the Endpoint Notes
The New Bureaucracies of Virtue
The New Bureaucracies of Virtue: IntroductionOnce a soft humanitarian twist to professional, commercial, or academic ventures, relegated to the margins of knowledge, practical ethics-from business ethics to military ethics-is an increasingly mainstream, high-profile, well-funded, and bureaucratically complex discipline.What it has kept from its early years is its catchy wording and a self-assured sense that it is engaged in making things better.O…
Documents
reflects on the new challenges to humanistic social science in a world in which the subjects of research increasingly share the professional passions and problems of the researcher. Documents are everywhere in modern life, from the sciences to bureaucracy to law; at the same time, fieldworkers document social realities by collecting, producing, and exchanging documents of their own. Capping off a generation of reflection and critique about the pr…
Anthropology, Human Rights, and Legal Knowledge
In this article, I draw on ethnography in the particular zone of engagement between anthropologists, on the one hand, and human rights lawyers who are skeptical of the human rights regime, on the other hand. I argue that many of the problems anthropologists encounter with the appropriation and marginalization of anthropology's analytical tools can be understood in terms of the legal character of human rights. In particular, discursive engagement …
Introducing Discipline
Real time
The Bank of Japan is our mother," bankers in Tokyo sometimes said of Japan's central bank. Drawing on this metaphor as an ethnographic resource, and on the example of central bankers who sought to unwind their own technocratic knowledge by replacing it with a real-time machine, I retrace the ethnographic task of unwinding technocratic knowledge from those anthropological knowledge practices that critique technocracy. In so doing, I draw attention…
Property as Legal Knowledge
This article takes anthropologists' renewed interest in property theory as an opportunity to consider legal theory-making as an ethnographic subject in its own right. My focus is on one particular construct - the instrument, or relation of means to ends, that animates both legal and anthropological theories about property. An analysis of the workings of this construct leads to the conclusion that rather than critique the ends of legal knowledge, …
Anthropology and Legal Studies
Rights Inside Out
This essay traces the relationship between activists and academics involved in the campaign for “women's rights as human rights” as a case study of the relationship between different classes of what I call “knowledge professionals” self-consciously acting in a transnational domain. The puzzle that animates this essay is the following: how was it that at the very moment at which a critique of “rights” and a reimagination of rights as “rights talk”…
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Documents
reflects on the new challenges to humanistic social science in a world in which the subjects of research increasingly share the professional passions and problems of the researcher. Documents are everywhere in modern life, from the sciences to bureaucracy to law; at the same time, fieldworkers document social realities by collecting, producing, and exchanging documents of their own. Capping off a generation of reflection and critique about the pr…
Real time
The Bank of Japan is our mother," bankers in Tokyo sometimes said of Japan's central bank. Drawing on this metaphor as an ethnographic resource, and on the example of central bankers who sought to unwind their own technocratic knowledge by replacing it with a real-time machine, I retrace the ethnographic task of unwinding technocratic knowledge from those anthropological knowledge practices that critique technocracy. In so doing, I draw attention…
Infinity within the Brackets
The ethnographic subjects of this article are UN-sponsored international conferences and their legal documents. Drawing upon fieldwork among Fiji delegates at these conferences, in this article I demonstrate the centrality of matters of form, as distinct from questions of "meaning," in the negotiation of international agreements. A parallel usage of documents and of mats among Fijian negotiators provides a heuristic device for exploring questions…
Collateral Expertise
This essay offers an ethnographically grounded critique of and an alternative to science-studies-inflected approaches to the social studies of finance. The focus on trading as the core of finance and the analysis of trading as an analog of technoscientific practice unwittingly substantiate one of the core ideological claims of finance, that it is a discrete world whose activities are protoscientific. A focus on the legal, regulatory, and document…
Anthropology, Human Rights, and Legal Knowledge
In this article, I draw on ethnography in the particular zone of engagement between anthropologists, on the one hand, and human rights lawyers who are skeptical of the human rights regime, on the other hand. I argue that many of the problems anthropologists encounter with the appropriation and marginalization of anthropology's analytical tools can be understood in terms of the legal character of human rights. In particular, discursive engagement …
Property as Legal Knowledge
This article takes anthropologists' renewed interest in property theory as an opportunity to consider legal theory-making as an ethnographic subject in its own right. My focus is on one particular construct - the instrument, or relation of means to ends, that animates both legal and anthropological theories about property. An analysis of the workings of this construct leads to the conclusion that rather than critique the ends of legal knowledge, …
The Anti-Network
Global private law has become the source of both anxiety and euphoria. Inherent in this fascination is the assumption that global private law threatens the legitimacy of the state by taking over its functions through new techniques of governance. In this article, I build upon research in one arena of global private governance, the production of legal documentation for the global swap markets, to challenge the most prominent assumptions about priv…
The New Bureaucracies of Virtue
The New Bureaucracies of Virtue: IntroductionOnce a soft humanitarian twist to professional, commercial, or academic ventures, relegated to the margins of knowledge, practical ethics-from business ethics to military ethics-is an increasingly mainstream, high-profile, well-funded, and bureaucratically complex discipline.What it has kept from its early years is its catchy wording and a self-assured sense that it is engaged in making things better.O…
Market Collaboration
In the wake of the disasters of March 2011, financial regulators and financial-risk management experts in Japan expressed little hope that much could be done nor did they take great interest in defining possible policy interventions. This curious response to regulatory crisis coincided with a new fascination with culturalist explanations of financial markets, on the one hand, and a resort to what I term "data politics"-a politics of intensified d…
Introducing Discipline
Models and Documents
This article explores the relationship between international legal theory and practice by examining how models and documents shape international legal knowledge. Riles argues that these artifacts, often dismissed as mere rhetoric or technicalities, are central to understanding how international law operates. Through ethnographic analysis of the work of international lawyers, she demonstrates how models, such as flowcharts and diagrams, and docume…
Division Within the Boundaries
Dans la colonie partiellement europeenne de Kasavu a Fidji, a chaque generation la terre est divisee en parcelles dont la surface est continuellement decroissante mais dont la forme reste identique. La parente concue comme division est a mon avis une forme de connaissance qui n'est pas representative des relations sociales et donc n'effectue pas de changement. Cela contraste avec une logique additive de relations de parente dans les populations u…
The view from the international plane
Outputs
This essay investigates one important artefact of meeting knowledge production: outputs. It does so through the example of the activities of the members of Meridian 180, a community of Pacific Rim intellectuals collaborating on transnational legal and policy issues. For the members, the particular kind of knowledge production facilitated by Meridian 180 constitutes a response to the failures of international bureaucracy to generate and sustain a …
Rights Inside Out
This essay traces the relationship between activists and academics involved in the campaign for “women's rights as human rights” as a case study of the relationship between different classes of what I call “knowledge professionals” self-consciously acting in a transnational domain. The puzzle that animates this essay is the following: how was it that at the very moment at which a critique of “rights” and a reimagination of rights as “rights talk”…
Exchanging expectations
Social scientists have recently shown how markets are discursively constructed and have documented the role of central banks in these constructions. Although framed as a critique of the neoclassical economic view, this approach still operates within a narrow vision of the world as divided into distinct political, social and economic spheres. Our goal in this paper is to replace this view with an exchange-based understanding of agency and relation…
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The view from the international plane
Division Within the Boundaries
Dans la colonie partiellement europeenne de Kasavu a Fidji, a chaque generation la terre est divisee en parcelles dont la surface est continuellement decroissante mais dont la forme reste identique. La parente concue comme division est a mon avis une forme de connaissance qui n'est pas representative des relations sociales et donc n'effectue pas de changement. Cela contraste avec une logique additive de relations de parente dans les populations u…
Infinity within the Brackets
The ethnographic subjects of this article are UN-sponsored international conferences and their legal documents. Drawing upon fieldwork among Fiji delegates at these conferences, in this article I demonstrate the centrality of matters of form, as distinct from questions of "meaning," in the negotiation of international agreements. A parallel usage of documents and of mats among Fijian negotiators provides a heuristic device for exploring questions…
Models and Documents
This article explores the relationship between international legal theory and practice by examining how models and documents shape international legal knowledge. Riles argues that these artifacts, often dismissed as mere rhetoric or technicalities, are central to understanding how international law operates. Through ethnographic analysis of the work of international lawyers, she demonstrates how models, such as flowcharts and diagrams, and docume…
The Network Inside Out
Networks and other artifacts of institutional life--documents, funding proposals, newsletters, organizational charts--are such ubiquitous aspects of the information age that they go unnoticed to most observers. In this work, Annelise Riles takes a sophisticated theoretical approach to examine the aesthetics of these artifacts and practices, to learn what their very forms and formats can tell us about knowledge and legality in today's world.The im…
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Rights Inside Out
This essay traces the relationship between activists and academics involved in the campaign for “women's rights as human rights” as a case study of the relationship between different classes of what I call “knowledge professionals” self-consciously acting in a transnational domain. The puzzle that animates this essay is the following: how was it that at the very moment at which a critique of “rights” and a reimagination of rights as “rights talk”…
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Books in Review
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Anthropology and Legal Studies
Real time
The Bank of Japan is our mother," bankers in Tokyo sometimes said of Japan's central bank. Drawing on this metaphor as an ethnographic resource, and on the example of central bankers who sought to unwind their own technocratic knowledge by replacing it with a real-time machine, I retrace the ethnographic task of unwinding technocratic knowledge from those anthropological knowledge practices that critique technocracy. In so doing, I draw attention…
Property as Legal Knowledge
This article takes anthropologists' renewed interest in property theory as an opportunity to consider legal theory-making as an ethnographic subject in its own right. My focus is on one particular construct - the instrument, or relation of means to ends, that animates both legal and anthropological theories about property. An analysis of the workings of this construct leads to the conclusion that rather than critique the ends of legal knowledge, …
Introducing Discipline
Documents
reflects on the new challenges to humanistic social science in a world in which the subjects of research increasingly share the professional passions and problems of the researcher. Documents are everywhere in modern life, from the sciences to bureaucracy to law; at the same time, fieldworkers document social realities by collecting, producing, and exchanging documents of their own. Capping off a generation of reflection and critique about the pr…
Anthropology, Human Rights, and Legal Knowledge
In this article, I draw on ethnography in the particular zone of engagement between anthropologists, on the one hand, and human rights lawyers who are skeptical of the human rights regime, on the other hand. I argue that many of the problems anthropologists encounter with the appropriation and marginalization of anthropology's analytical tools can be understood in terms of the legal character of human rights. In particular, discursive engagement …
Failure as an Endpoint
This chapter contains section titled: Retreat from Knowledge Knowing the Endpoint Notes
The New Bureaucracies of Virtue
The New Bureaucracies of Virtue: IntroductionOnce a soft humanitarian twist to professional, commercial, or academic ventures, relegated to the margins of knowledge, practical ethics-from business ethics to military ethics-is an increasingly mainstream, high-profile, well-funded, and bureaucratically complex discipline.What it has kept from its early years is its catchy wording and a self-assured sense that it is engaged in making things better.O…
The Anti-Network
Global private law has become the source of both anxiety and euphoria. Inherent in this fascination is the assumption that global private law threatens the legitimacy of the state by taking over its functions through new techniques of governance. In this article, I build upon research in one arena of global private governance, the production of legal documentation for the global swap markets, to challenge the most prominent assumptions about priv…
Collateral Expertise
This essay offers an ethnographically grounded critique of and an alternative to science-studies-inflected approaches to the social studies of finance. The focus on trading as the core of finance and the analysis of trading as an analog of technoscientific practice unwittingly substantiate one of the core ideological claims of finance, that it is a discrete world whose activities are protoscientific. A focus on the legal, regulatory, and document…
Response
Previous articleNext article FreeResponse Power and truth in Japanese ethnographyAnnelise RILESAnnelise RILESCornell University Search for more articles by this author Cornell UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreAs a longstanding admirer of Japanese anthropology, and one first introduced to this field through the f…
Market Collaboration
In the wake of the disasters of March 2011, financial regulators and financial-risk management experts in Japan expressed little hope that much could be done nor did they take great interest in defining possible policy interventions. This curious response to regulatory crisis coincided with a new fascination with culturalist explanations of financial markets, on the one hand, and a resort to what I term "data politics"-a politics of intensified d…
Minpo kaisei
Journal Article Minpō kaisei: keiyaku no rūru ga hyakunenburi ni kawaru [Civil Code Reform: The Rules of Contract Change After 100 Long Years] Get access Minpō kaisei: keiyaku no rūru ga hyakunenburi ni kawaru [Civil Code Reform: The Rules of Contract Change After 100 Long Years], by Takashi Uchida. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 2011, 237 pp., ¥798 (ISBN 978-4480066343) Annelise RILES Annelise RILES Cornell Law School Search for other works by this autho…
Beyond Bunker and Vaccine
Who was responsible for the cyberincursions upon the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that took place during the U.S. presidential campaign? Russia's “ senior most officials ”? A “ a tattooed 26-year-old ” running a server rental company in western Siberia? U.S. political party leaders and other insiders disinclined to implement “ best in class ” cybersecurity measures? Or does responsibility lie elsewhere
Introduction to Symposium on Cybersecurity and the Changing International Law of Data
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
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