Marilyn Strathern

Audit Cultures (eBook, PDF)

Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134569700
• Artikelnr.: 42975905

Autorenporträt

Marilyn Strathern is Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and Mistress of Girton College.

Inhaltsangabe

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