The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility / / ed. by Dinah Rajak, Catherine Dolan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Burnham, Philip,; Cross, Jamie,; De Neve, Geert,; Dolan, Catherine,; Foster, Robert J.,; Gardner, Katy,; Hardin, Rebecca,; Johnstone-Louis, Mary,; Kirsch, Stuart,; Li, Fabiana,; Muñoz, José-María,; Rajak, Dinah,; Sydow, Johanna,
• HerausgeberIn: Dolan, Catherine,; Rajak, Dinah,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Dislocations ; 18
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward the Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility -- Chapter 1 – Theatres of Virtue: Collaboration, Consensus, and the Social Life of Corporate Social Responsibility -- Chapter 2 – Virtuous Language in Industry and the Academy -- Chapter 3 – Re-siting Corporate Responsibility: The Making of South Africa’s Avon Entrepreneurs -- Chapter 4 – Power, Inequality, and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Politics of Ethical Compliance in the South Indian Garment Industry -- Chapter 5 – Detachment as a Corporate Ethic: Materializing CSR in the Diamond Supply Chain -- Chapter 6 – Disconnect Development: Imagining Partnership and Experiencing Detachment in Chevron’s Borderlands -- Chapter 7 – Subcontracting as Corporate Social Responsibility in the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project -- Chapter 8 – Collective Contradictions of “Corporate” Environmental Conservation -- Chapter 9 – Engineering Responsibility: Environmental Mitigation and the Limits of Commensuration in a Chilean Mining Project -- Chapter 10 – Global Concepts in Local Contexts: CSR as “Anti-Politics Machine” in the Extractive Sector in Ghana and Peru -- Afterword — Big Men and Business: Morality, Debt, and the Corporation: A Perspective -- Index