Audit cultures anthropological studies in accountability, ethics and the academy
Marilyn Strathern (Editor)
With contributions from leading academics from a range of study areas such as anthropology, politics and management studies, this volume is opening up a new area of research to anthropologists and corporations alike.
1 online resource (310 pages).
9781134569700, 9780203449721, 113456970X, 020344972X
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Introduction 1. The analytic and textual practices of the International Monetary Fund: an examination of international auditing 2. Coercive accountability: The new audit culture and its impact on Anthropology 3. Generic genius - how does it all add up? 4. Anthropology, accountability and the European Commission 5. The trickster's dilemma: ethics and the technologies of the anthropological self 6. Audited accountability and the imperative of moral responsibility: beyond the primacy of the political and the systematic and the calling of Swaraj 7. Self-accountability, ethics and 'the problem of meaning' 8. Bureaucratic rationalisation and reunification: an exploration of the ethnography and politics of accountability 9. Academia: same pressures, same conditions of work? 10. Disciples, discipline and reflection: anthropological encounters and trajectories
"This volume is based on materials and ideas first presented to the 1998 meetings of the European Association of Social Anthropologists in Frankfurt, at a plenary session under the title "Conditions for thought" and at an associated workshop, "Auditing anthropology: the new accountability."