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Enacting the Corporation Marina Welker

Enacting the Corporation By Marina Welker

Enacting the Corporation by Marina Welker


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What are corporations, and to whom are they responsible? This book 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.

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Enacting the Corporation: An American Mining Firm in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia by Marina Welker

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.

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Marina Welker provides an alternative mode of analysis that avoids the usual tropes without losing sight of the complexities and contradictions revealed through ethnographic fieldwork. American Anthropologist

About Marina Welker

Marina Welker is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of 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

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CIN0520282310G
9780520282315
0520282310
Enacting the Corporation: An American Mining Firm in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia by Marina Welker
Used - Good
Paperback
University of California Press
20140321
312
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