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

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. Against the backdrop of an emerging...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Welker, Marina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • 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