Description:
- 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.
Brief description:
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).
Review Quotes:
"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