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Zusatztext "Each chapter in this important book! in one way or another! interrogates the slippery and shady partnerships forming between transnational corporations! international development agencies! and NGOs to further augment and implement CSR programmes?If you think critically about corporations! add this to your collection." · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "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 Informationen zum Autor 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 ( www.responsiblebop.com ). 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 ( www.responsiblebop.com ). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The collection traces the connections and conflicts between the local politics of corporate engagement and the global movements of CSR, revealing the ways in which social and environmental relations are transformed through the regimes of ethical capitalism. 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 C...
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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 (www.responsiblebop.com).
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 (www.responsiblebop.com).
