Dissertation Research: Global Capitalism and the "Caring Corporation": Copper Mining and Community Development in Sumbawa, Indonesia

基恩/威尔士印度尼西亚是世界上穆斯林人口最多的国家之一。这篇论文是由密歇根大学人类学和历史系学生Ann Arbor进行的，研究了位于印度尼西亚松巴瓦的美国公司Newmont控制的铜矿周围地区由企业赞助的社区发展。这项研究的目的是追踪由于公司的存在和发展活动而发生的政治、经济和社会变革，并调查社会行为者如何通过亲属关系和发展、企业责任、伊斯兰教和抽象权利的概念来对这些变革进行道德理解并分配资源。方法包括与公司人员和当地松巴旺人一起进行参与者观察，与社区领导人和其他中间人进行有组织的公司会议观察，档案研究，以及有组织的家庭访谈。学生将考察开发工作者和村民对涉及住房、农业、环境恢复和健康的四个项目的理解和支持之间的关系。这项研究将增进我们对传统穆斯林文化与发展关系的理解，将有助于揭示全球资本主义的一个主要现象--企业社会责任，并有助于培养年轻的社会科学家。

0211197Keane / WelkerIndonesia is home to one of the largest Moslem populations in the world. This dissertation research by an anthropology and history student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, examines corporate-sponsored community development in the region surrounding a copper mine controlled by Newmont, a U.S. corporation in Sumbawa, Indonesia. The objectives of this research are to trace the political, economic and social transformations taking place due to the corporation's presence and development activities, and to investigate how social actors work out moral understandings of these transformations and allocate resources through kin relations and notions of development, corporate responsibility, Islam, and abstract rights. Methods include participant observation with corporate personnel and local Sumbawans, structured observation of corporate meetings with community leaders and other intermediaries, archival research, and structured household interviews. The student will examine the relationship between development workers' and villagers' understandings of and support for four projects dealing with housing, farming, environmental rehabilitation, and health. The research will advance our understanding of traditional Moslem culture's relation to development, will shed light on a major phenomenon of global capitalism - corporate social responsibility, as well as contribute to the training of a young social scientist.