The first and only edited volume on the anthropology of corporate social responsibility.
Offers a critical, comprehensive overview charting the anthropological contribution to the analysis of corporate social responsibility.
Draws together work of key thinkers/anthropologists working on corporate social responsibility.
Brings together ethnographic case studies of CSR in practice from diverse localities across the global and across various sectors and industries from mining, oil and gas, to cosmetics and apparel.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
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
José-María Muñoz 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
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