The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility [Paperback]

The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibilityexplores 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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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 Chevrons Borderl.