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

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014 ©2014

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps Contents "We need to Newmontize folk" : a new social discipline at corporate headquarters -- "Pak Comrel is our regent whom we respect" : mine, state, and development responsibility -- "My job would be far easier if locals were already capitalists" : incubating enterprise and patronage -- "We identified farmers as our top security risk" : ethereal and material development in the paddy fields -- "Corporate security begins in the community" : the social work of environmental management -- "We should be like Starbucks" : the social assessment 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"-- Provided by publisher Analysis 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Newmont Mining Corporation. Newmont Nusa Tenggara, PT. Newmont Mining Corporation Newmont Nusa Tenggara, PT. Mineral industries -- Social aspects -- Indonesia -- Sumbawa Island Social responsibility of business -- Indonesia -- Sumbawa Island Social responsibility of business -- Colorado -- Greenwood Village Capitalism -- Indonesia -- Sumbawa Island Ethnology -- Indonesia -- Sumbawa Island BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Capitalism Ethnology Mineral industries -- Social aspects Social responsibility of business Bergbaubetrieb Kupferbergwerk Goldbergwerk Corporate Social Responsibility Staat Regulierung Colorado -- Greenwood Village Indonesia -- Sumbawa Island Sumbawa Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520957954 0520957954 1306463378 9781306463379 0520282302 9780520282308

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