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University of California Press
- Enacting the Corporation: An American Mining Firm in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
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. She shows how, against the backdrop of an emerging Corporate Social Responsibility movement and changing state dynamics in Indonesia, 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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xvi
- Note on Pseudonyms and Quoted Sources
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-32
- Conclusion: “Soft Is Hard”
- pp. 215-218
- Bibliography
- pp. 249-280
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520957954
Related ISBN(s)
9780520282308
MARC Record
OCLC
871257912
Pages
352
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No