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

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What are corporations, and to whom are they responsible? Anthropologist Marina Welker draws on two years of study at Newmont Mining Corporation’s Denver headquarters and its Batu Hijau copper and gold mine in Sumbawa, Indonesia, to deal with these questions. Against the backdrop of an emerging Corporate Social Responsibility movement and changing state dynamics in Indonesia, she shows how other people enact the mining corporation in a couple of tactics: as an ore producer, employer, patron, promoter of sustainable development, non secular sponsor, auditable organization, foreign imperialist, and environmental threat. Quite 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 a couple of authors, boundaries, and interests. Enacting the Corporation demonstrates that corporations are constituted thru continuous struggles over family members with—and responsibilities to—local communities, employees, activists, governments, contractors, and shareholders.
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