Enacting the corporation : an American mining firm in post-authoritarian Indonesia / Marina Welker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welker, Marina, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newmont Mining Corporation.

Newmont Nusa Tenggara, PT.

Mineral industries--Social aspects--Indonesia--Sumbawa Island.

Mineral industries.

Social responsibility of business--Indonesia--Sumbawa Island.

Social responsibility of business.

Social responsibility of business--Colorado--Greenwood Village.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What are corporations, and to whom are they responsible? Anthropologist Marina Welker draws on two years of research at Newmont Mining Corporation's Denver headquarters and its Batu Hijau copper and gold mine in Sumbawa, Indonesia, to address these questions. Against the backdrop of an emerging Corporate Social Responsibility movement and changing state dynamics in Indonesia, she shows how people enact the mining corporation in multiple ways: as an ore producer, employer, patron, promoter of sustainable development, religious sponsor, auditable organization, foreign imperialist, and environmental threat. Rather than assuming that corporations are monolithic, profit-maximizing subjects, Welker turns to anthropological theories of personhood to develop an analytic model of the corporation as an unstable collective subject with multiple authors, boundaries, and interests. Enacting the Corporation demonstrates that corporations are constituted through continuous struggles over relations with-and responsibilities to-local communities, workers, activists, governments, contractors, and shareholders.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Note on Pseudonyms and Quoted Sources

Introduction

1. "We Need to Newmontize Folk": A New Social Discipline at Corporate Headquarters

2. "Pak Comrel Is Our Regent Whom We Respect": Mine, State, and Development Responsibility

3. "My Job Would Be Far Easier If Locals Were Already Capitalists": Incubating Enterprise and Patronage

4. "We Identified Farmers as Our Top Security Risk": Ethereal and Material Development in the Paddy Fields

5. "Corporate Security Begins in the Community": The Social Work of Environmental Management

6. "We Should Be Like Starbucks": The Social Assessment

Conclusion: "Soft Is Hard"

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520957954

0520957954

OCLC:

871257912