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Enacting the corporation : an American mining firm in post-authoritarian Indonesia / / Marina Welker



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Autore: Welker Marina <1973-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Enacting the corporation : an American mining firm in post-authoritarian Indonesia / / Marina Welker Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 p.)
Disciplina: 338.8/872209598
Soggetto topico: Mineral industries - Social aspects - Indonesia - Sumbawa Island
Social responsibility of business - Indonesia - Sumbawa Island
Social responsibility of business - Colorado - Greenwood Village
Soggetto non controllato: activists
anthropology
batu hijau
big business
business ethics
business
collective subject
copper mines
corporate social responsibility movement
corporations
denver
employer
environmental threat
gold mines
government and governing
imperialism
imperialist
indonesia
local communities
miners
mining
money and power
natural resource extraction industry
newmont mining corporation
ore producer
patron
personhood
religious sponsor
shareholders
sumbawa
sustainable development
workers
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Pseudonyms and Quoted Sources -- Introduction -- 1. "We Need to Newmontize Folk": A New Social Discipline at Corporate Headquarters -- 2. "Pak Comrel Is Our Regent Whom We Respect": Mine, State, and Development Responsibility -- 3. "My Job Would Be Far Easier If Locals Were Already Capitalists": Incubating Enterprise and Patronage -- 4. "We Identified Farmers as Our Top Security Risk": Ethereal and Material Development in the Paddy Fields -- 5. "Corporate Security Begins in the Community": The Social Work of Environmental Management -- 6. "We Should Be Like Starbucks": The Social Assessment -- Conclusion: "Soft Is Hard" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: What are corporations, and to whom are they responsible? Anthropologist Marina Welker draws on two years of research at Newmont Mining Corporation's Denver headquarters and its Batu Hijau copper and gold mine in Sumbawa, Indonesia, to address these questions. Against the backdrop of an emerging Corporate Social Responsibility movement and changing state dynamics in Indonesia, she shows how people enact the mining corporation in multiple ways: as an ore producer, employer, patron, promoter of sustainable development, religious sponsor, auditable organization, foreign imperialist, and environmental threat. Rather than assuming that corporations are monolithic, profit-maximizing subjects, Welker turns to anthropological theories of personhood to develop an analytic model of the corporation as an unstable collective subject with multiple authors, boundaries, and interests. Enacting the Corporation demonstrates that corporations are constituted through continuous struggles over relations with-and responsibilities to-local communities, workers, activists, governments, contractors, and shareholders.
Titolo autorizzato: Enacting the corporation  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95795-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814721303321
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