The anthropology of corporate social responsibility / edited Catherine Dolan & Dinah Rajak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dolan, Catherine, editor.

Rajack, Dinah, editor.

ebrary, Inc.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Dislocations ; 18.

Dislocations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social responsibility of business.

Industries--Social aspects.

Industries.

Anthropology--Social aspects.

Anthropology.

Environmental responsibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 263 pages) : illustration.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa, the UK, and the US). The contributors examine the expectations, frictions and contradictions the CSR movement is generating and addressing key issues such as the introduction of new forms of management, control, and discipline through ethical and environmental governance or the extent to which corporate responsibility challenges existing patterns of inequality rather than generating new geographies of inclusion and exclusion. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Towards an Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility / Catherine Dolan and Dinah Rajak

Chapter 1. Theatres of Virtue: Collaboration Consensus and the Social Life of Corporate Social Responsibility / Dinah Rajak

Chapter 2. Virtuous Language in Industry and Academy / Stuart Kirsch

Chapter 3. Re-siting Corporate Responsibility : The Making of South Africa's Avon Entrepreneurs / Catherine Dolan and Mary Johnstone-Louis

Chapter 4. Power, Inequality and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Politics of Ethical Compliance in the South Indian Garment Industry / Geert De Neve

Chapter 5. Detachment as a Corporate Ethic: Materialising CSR in the Diamond Supply Chain / Jamie Cross

Chapter 6. Disconnect Development: Imagining Partnership and Experiencing Detachment in Chevron's Borderlands / Katy Gardner

Chapter 7. Subcontracting as Corporate Social Responsibility in the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline / Jose-Maria Munoz and Philip Burnham

Chapter 8. Collective Contradictions of Corporate Environmental Conservation / Rebecca Hardin

Chapter 9. Engineering Responsibility: Environmental Mitigation and the Limits of Commensuration in a Chilean Mining Project / Fabiana Li

Chapter 10. Global Concepts in Local Contexts: CSR as 'Anti-politics Machine' in the Extractive Sector in Ghana and Peru / Johanna Sydow

Afterword: Big Men and Business: Morality, Debt and the Corporation: A Perspective / Robert J. Foster.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781785330728

1785330721

Publisher Number:

99968299120

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.