The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility
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eng
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263
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9781785337505
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Abstract
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 USA). 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.
Table of contents
Chapter 1 Theatres of virtue: Collaboration, consensus, and the social life of corporate social responsibility | Dinah Rajak
Chapter 2 Virtuous language in industry and the academy | Stuart Kirsch
Chapter 3 Re-siting coporate responsibility: The making of South Africa'a 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: Materializing CSR in the diamond supply chain | Jamie Cross
chapter 6 Disconnect development: Imaging partnership and experiencing detachment in Chevron's borderlands
Chapter 7 Subcontracting as corporate social responsibility in the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project | Jose-Maria Munoz and Philip Burnham
Chapter 8 Collective contradictions of "corporate" environmental conversation | Rebecca Hardin
Chapter 9 Engineering responsibility: Environmental mitigation and the limits of commensuration in Chilean meaning project | Fabiana Li
Chapter 10 Global concepts in local contexts: CSR as "anti-politics machine" in the extractive sector in Ghana and Peru | Roberts J. Foster