Ant 7

Question 1

How do these practices of organ trafficking fit into our framework of globalization

Answer 1

• The compression of time and space has enabled organ smugglers to not only reach potential “donors” with and buyers with ease, beyond the borders of nation states.
• No longer same idea of “local”. Everything is connected
• New intimacies arise

Question 2

Doing ethnography in the Era of Globalization

Answer 2

non-places are constructed during the practice of kidney trafficking, for kidney trafficking to be accurately studied, ethnographers must insert themselves into these worlds if they are to understand them. These studies are also not bound to the borders of a nation state, and are therefore fluid and must be followed to be studied

Question 3

New forms of “Intimacy”

Answer 3

(interconnectedness) the rich and poor become interconnected at a “biological level” as they exchange body tissues

Question 4

Construction of Non-places

Answer 4

the illegality of organ trade forces the creation of new “places” for illicit surgeries and deals to be carried out.

Question 5

Understand the role of Cultural Brokers (“Hybrid” Individuals)

Answer 5

The hybrid individuals are crucial to this give and take because they are equipped not only to take advantage of the donor, but negotiate with buyers and operate successfully within the international crime underworld.