was being exposed to, because that would expose her own job to risk. She had a mortgage and children to consider. In this article, I will describe the dynamic at play for Betty as corporate accountability, an upwards accountability to one's employer
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Accountabilities in the NHS
Coercion, Finance and Responsibility
Piyush Pushkar
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Mar 2023
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- 118–136 (19 total)
The Role of Law in Corporate Accountability
Stuart Kirsch
also involves cutting the network. This process is predicated on the identification of singular agents that can be held accountable even in complex contexts involving multiple actors and materialities that have also shaped the outcome (see Deoanacă
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
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- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Afterword
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- 100–109 (10 total)
Humanitarian technologies of trust
Julie Billaud
published on the conference's website, the wide-spread perception of a ‘declining trust in institutions and governments, an increase in public scrutiny, and calls for stronger integrity and accountability’ ( ICRC 2019a ). Between the lines, one could easily
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Sep 2023
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- Research Article
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- 33–50 (18 total)
The Greek economic crisis as trope
Daniel M. Knight
The Greek economic crisis resonates across Europe as synonymous with corruption, poor government, austerity, financial bailouts, civil unrest, and social turmoil. The search for accountability on the local level is entangled with competing rhetorics of persuasion, fear, and complex historical consciousness. Internationally, the Greek crisis is employed as a trope to call for collective mobilization and political change. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Trikala, central Greece, this article outlines how accountability for the Greek economic crisis is understood in local and international arenas. Trikala can be considered a microcosm for the study of the pan-European economic turmoil as the “Greek crisis“ is heralded as a warning on national stages throughout the continent.
Transparency and legibility in international institutions
The UN Global Compact and post‐political global ethics
Christina Garsten and Kerstin Jacobsson
The article examines the organisational production and distribution of normatively charged ideas for governing transnational business. Based on the United Nations Global Compact Initiative, it is argued that the UN version of ‘corporate social responsibility’ (CSR) builds on a metanarrative of rationality, involving ideals of transparency and legibility combined with an emphasis on consensus and harmony. The strong accent on partnership, agreement and dialogue leaves little space for the involved parties to articulate and defend diverging interests. By transforming what are basically political conflicts of interest into win–win terms, CSR standards and the technologies of transparency, legibility, and accountability foreclose conflictual space, and emerge as an instance of ‘post‐political global ethics’.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 Nov 2011
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 378–393 (15 total)
On Interdisciplinarity and Models of Knowledge Production
Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill
The six UK Genetics Knowledge Parks (GKPs) were shaped and governed by two frameworks: a 'need' to harness 'new genetics' and the relations of accountability as seen in the context of entrepreneurial government. The remit of the Cambridge GKP (CGKP) was to develop public health genetics by building on the concepts of partnership and interdisciplinarity. In the course of its work, the CGKP emphasized the virtues of 'change management', seen as distinct from, and opposed to, an academic model of knowledge production. However, the model that the CGKP actually created was a research/management hybrid that resisted quality assurance checks developed for each model (research and management), presenting a formidable challenge for the evaluation and assessment of the CGKP's work.
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Dec 2007
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 121–147 (27 total)
Prelude
An Accountability, Written in the Year 2108
Carolyn Nordstrom
This 'archaeology of the future' examines how we, as scholars and anthropologists, will be read—and judged—in the time to come. Twenty-second-century theoreticians may well ask (as we today ask of colonial-era scholarship): “Did the scholars in the early twenty-first century see in their analyses new kinds of warfare, unparalleled forms of violence, potentialities yet to be developed?“ Through an analysis of events likely to unfold over the course of the next 100 years (from changing power constellations to anthropology's attempt to commit disciplinary suicide), this article affirms an anthropology that takes ontological reflexivity seriously; that no longer accepts outdated heuristics dividing theory from theoretician from Being (production of the world); and that grounds this approach in an accountability recognizing epistemology as dynamic, honest, and emergent.
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On War and Accountability
Alisse Waterston
This article centers on a set of discussions around accountability' as it pertains to war: accounts of war, accounting for war, what war accounts for, and accountability, including anthropological accountability. The essay details stories that ethnographers tell about what they have seen, heard, and done on the front lines. It reviews explanations for the causes, patterns, and practices of war, and for the occurrences of specific wars. The discussion also highlights what war explains, that is, how war creates its own outcomes. It considers who is to be held responsible for all the death and destruction that war inevitably brings and discusses impunity as systemic and strategic. Also considered is the responsibility of anthropology and anthropologists in facing up to the most significant crises of our times.
De-judicialization, Outsourced Review and All-Too-Flexible Bureaucracies in South African Land Restitution
Olaf Zenker
This article takes as its starting point a peculiar land claim within the ongoing South African land restitution process – more specifically, the legal and administrative technicalities that allowed for the implosion of the accompanying court case in the Land Claims Court – to open up a space for reflection on the ambiguous nature of state bureaucracies as ambiguity-reducing machines. Tracing the specificities of bureaucratic attempts at foreclosing ambiguities and insufficiencies in state practice, I show how a reorientation towards the new public goods of 'service delivery', 'transparency' and 'accountability' brought about a pronounced regime of performance indicators and de-judicialized bureaucratic flexibility. Demonstrating how these attempts to reduce ambiguities created new zones of ambiguity and unaccountability of their own, I argue for a post-Weberian analysis of the path-dependent realities of 'bureaucratic authority' to help us understand the seemingly arbitrary structural violence that state bureaucracies often enact.
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2015
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 81–96 (16 total)
Making Networks Accountable
Bruce Kogut
University of Pennsylvania and École PolytThe book by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello on the new spirit of capitalism returns to the question that puzzled the social thinkers of an earlier time: How does capitalism manufacture the ideological foundations of social peace, despite its hollow spiritual core and its creation of inequities? Their argument, reminiscent of Gramsci’s, is that capitalism is richly inventive in appropriating cultural systems to justify itself. To address the ills of contemporary society, one must deconstruct the ideologies that make excessive levels of stress, unemployment, and inequality appear unavoidable. Boltanski and Chiapello cite Durkheim’s thesis that capitalism is marred by the insatiable pursuit of self-interest, a view that resonates with the Chinese parable of the mask with no lower jaw.echnique
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Sep 2000
- Article Type:
- Discussion
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- 123–128 (6 total)