ISBN:
9780415233262
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (323 p)
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Parallel Title:
Print version Audit Cultures : Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: new accountabilities; The social organization of the IMF's mission work: an examination of international auditing; Coercive accountability: the rise of audit culture in higher education; Generic genius; how does it all add up?; Accountability, anthropology and the European Commission; The trickster's dilemma: ethics and the technologies of the anthropological self; Audited accountability and the imperative of responsibility: beyond the primacy of the political; Self-accountability, ethics and the problem of meaning
Description / Table of Contents:
The university as panopticon: moral claims and attacks on academic freedomAcademia: same pressures, same conditions of work?; Disciples, discipline and reflection: anthropological encounters and trajectories; Afterword: accountabilityand ethnography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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