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Detachment as a corporate ethic
Abstract
This article examines efforts by De Beers, the world’s largest supplier of rough diamonds, to better regulate the conditions under which its stones are cut and polished across a global network of buyers, contractors, and subcontractors. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at an offshore processing unit in South India that was built to service De Beers’ buyers, this article explores how ethical accounting regimes are materialized on the floor of a global factory and how they are grounded in an industrial bureaucracy. In a global supply chain like this one, I argue, codes of practice and audit checklists demand to be understood as material technologies that afford companies and individuals new purchase on an ethic of detachment.
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“The programme's embrace of remote (dis)engagement and entrepreneurialism, which are premised on an 'ethic of detachment' (Cross, 2011), do nothing to advance real market inclusion, where workers' rights and protections are upheld by labour regulations.”
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Friedner, M. (2015) · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute · doi:10.1111/1467-9655.12208 · Cited by 34
The Coming of the Corporate Gift
Cross, J. (2014) · Theory, Culture & Society · doi:10.1177/0263276413499191 · Cited by 31
Self-citationRemote (Dis)engagement: Shifting Corporate Risk to the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’
Roll, K., Dolan, C., & Rajak, D. (2021) · Development and Change · doi:10.1111/dech.12669 · Cited by 10
Metadata
- Authors
- Cross, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Edinburgh jamiejcross@gmail.com
- Venue
- Focaal
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Published
- 2011-06-01
- Volume
- 2011
- Issue
- 60
- Pages
- 34-46
- ISSN
- 0920-1297
- 1558-5263
- Cited by
- 56
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