Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility

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).

“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

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Towards an Anthropology of Corporate Social ResponsibilityCatherine Dolan and Dinah RajakChapter 1. Theatres of Virtue: Collaboration Consensus and the Social Life of Corporate Social ResponsibilityDinah RajakChapter 2. Virtuous Language in Industry and AcademyStuart KirschChapter 3. Re-siting Corporate Responsibility: The Making of South Africa's Avon EntrepreneursCatherine Dolan and Mary Johnstone-LouisChapter 4. Power, Inequality and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Politics of Ethical Compliance in the South Indian Garment IndustryGeert De NeveChapter 5. Detachment as a Corporate Ethic: Materialising CSR in the Diamond Supply ChainJamie CrossChapter 6. Disconnect Development: Imagining Partnership and Experiencing Detachment in Chevron’s BorderlandsKaty GardnerChapter 7. Subcontracting as Corporate Social Responsibility in the Chad-Cameroon PipelineJosé-María Muñoz and Philip BurnhamChapter 8. Collective Contradictions of Corporate Environmental ConservationRebecca HardinChapter 9. Engineering Responsibility: Environmental Mitigation and the Limits of Commensuration in a Chilean Mining ProjectFabiana LiChapter 10. Global Concepts in Local Contexts: CSR as ‘Anti-politics Machine’ in the Extractive Sector in Ghana and PeruJohanna SydowAfterword: Big Men and Business: Morality, Debt and the Corporation: A PerspectiveRobert J. FosterIndex