Overview

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.

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Author:   Catherine Dolan ,  Dinah Rajak ,  Robert J. Foster
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   18
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781785330711

ISBN 10:   1785330713
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   10 March 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Index

Reviews

This is an insightful and original compilation of research on the novel ways in which 'market and society', and underlying dynamics of accumulation and sociality, get entangled and transformed through contemporary corporate practice. The wide range of empirical terrain traversed - in terms of the chapters' diverse ideational, social and regional settings - sets the stage for an illuminating comparative inquiry, on a timely topic of wider importance. * Jens Kjaerulff, Aalborg University This volume deals with what I would consider to be one of the most important issues of our time: the ethical turn of global capitalism, what it means, and what its possible effects might be. * Andrea Muehlebach, University of Toronto

Author Information

Catherine Dolan is on the faculty of anthropology at SOAS, University of London, and holds fellowships at James Martin Institute, Green Templeton College and Said Business School, all at University of Oxford. Her research centres on contemporary forms of moral capitalism, including Fair Trade, inclusive development and bottom of the pyramid business, in Africa. She is a co-founder of the Centre for New Economies of Development. Dinah Rajak is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and International Development at the University of Sussex. She is the author of In Good Company. An Anatomy of Corporate Social Responsibility (Stanford University Press 2011) and the co-founder of the Centre for New Economies of Development.

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