Competing Responsibilities: The Ethics and Politics of Contemporary Life
Susanna Trnka is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Auckland and coeditor of Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life.
Catherine Trundle is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington and coeditor of Detachment: Essays on the Limits of Relational Thinking.
Susanna Trnka is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Auckland and coeditor of Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life.
Catherine Trundle is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington and coeditor of Detachment: Essays on the Limits of Relational Thinking.
From Corporate Social Responsibility to Creating Shared Value: Contesting Responsibilization and the Mining Industry
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Published:March 2017
Jessica M. Smith, 2017. "From Corporate Social Responsibility to Creating Shared Value: Contesting Responsibilization and the Mining Industry", Competing Responsibilities: The Ethics and Politics of Contemporary Life, Susanna Trnka, Catherine Trundle
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This chapter analyzes the polysemous understandings of responsibility that animate corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the global mining industry, which is criticized for promoting a shift from government-enforced regulation of industry to more devolved and voluntary governance, allowing corporations to offer themselves up as solutions to problems they help to define. This governance partially responsibilizes individuals and communities impacted by industry, attempting to cultivate entrepreneurial subjects. Criticizing the responsibilization framework, communities frequently invoke responsibility to call for more responsive and enduring relationships with corporations. Finally, the new era of corporate social value maintains and perhaps accentuates these programs’ focus on...
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