EAN: 9783319923208

GOLD MINING AND THE DISCOURSES OF CORPORATE SOC...

This book critically examines the practice and meanings of corporate social responsibility
(CSR) and how the movement has facilitated a positive and somewhat unquestioned image of the
global corporation. Drawing on extensive fieldwork material collected in Ghanaian communities
located around the project sites of Newmont Mining Corporation and Kinross Gold Corporation 
the monograph employs critical discourse analysis to accentuate how mining corporations use CSR
as a discursive alibi to gain legitimacy and dominance over the social order  while determining
their own spheres of responsibility and accountability. Hiding behind such notions as ¿social
licence to operate¿ and ¿best practice ¿ corporations are enacted as entities that are morally
conscious and socially responsible. Yet  this enactment is contested in host communities  as
explored in chapters that examine corporate citizenship  gendered perspectives  and how global
CSR norms institutionalize unaccountability.

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