“My Job Would Be Far Easier If Locals Were Already Capitalists”
“My Job Would Be Far Easier If Locals Were Already Capitalists”
Incubating Enterprise and Patronage
This chapter examines how Batu Hijau's community programs have worked to foster and channel—as well as to suppress—patronage dynamics. It also develops a view of local residents as actors engaged with (and not simply acted upon by) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) business development initiatives. Their perspectives on what the corporation is and what it owes them shape Newmont's community development plans and programs, creating flows of money, materials, ideas, and persons across mine boundaries. These flows and dynamics are constitutive of rather than marginal to everyday mine operations. They challenge us to make sense of how corporate managers variously claim integration with, distance from, and control over their trading partners—to understand how and why they essay rhetorically and materially to gather them in and hold them at a distance.
Keywords: patronoage dynamics, local residents, CSR business development, Newmont, community development plans, corporate managers, trading partners, Batu Hijau, community programs, Corporate Social Responsibility
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