Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Introduction: Toward the Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility 1
6. Chapter 1 – Theatres of Virtue: Collaboration, Consensus, and the Social Life of Corporate Social Responsibility 29
7. Chapter 2 – Virtuous Language in Industry and the Academy 48
8. Chapter 3 – Re-siting Corporate Responsibility: The Making of South Africa’s Avon Entrepreneurs 67
9. Chapter 4 – Power, Inequality, and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Politics of Ethical Compliance in the South Indian Garment Industry 86
10. Chapter 5 – Detachment as a Corporate Ethic: Materializing CSR in the Diamond Supply Chain 110
11. Chapter 6 – Disconnect Development: Imagining Partnership and Experiencing Detachment in Chevron’s Borderlands 128
12. Chapter 7 – Subcontracting as Corporate Social Responsibility in the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project 152
13. Chapter 8 – Collective Contradictions of “Corporate” Environmental Conservation 179
14. Chapter 9 – Engineering Responsibility: Environmental Mitigation and the Limits of Commensuration in a Chilean Mining Project 199
15. Chapter 10 – Global Concepts in Local Contexts: CSR as “Anti-Politics Machine” in the Extractive Sector in Ghana and Peru 217
16. Afterword — Big Men and Business: Morality, Debt, and the Corporation: A Perspective 243
17. Index 251