Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The Bigger Picture: Implications for ‘Engendering’ CSR, De-responsibilization and Re-responsibilization

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Gold Mining and the Discourses of Corporate Social Responsibility in Ghana

  • 385 Accesses

Abstract

In this concluding chapter, Andrews first provides some modest direction in terms of what characteristics a gendered reconstitution of CSR might embrace. The idea of ‘engendering’ CSR is based on the discussion in Chapter 4 and is primarily drawn from women respondents’ own self-identified notions of how to make things better. Secondly, Andrews reflects on the role of the state in an era of responsibilization, with an understanding that the process of responsibilization is rooted in social relations and practices that leave subjects wanting more. For instance, the patronage and dependency that the CSR discourse creates, repeats itself in a vicious cycle that serves the interest of some stakeholders at the detriment of others. Andrews, therefore, examines ways to re-responsibilize the state while de-responsibilizing the corporation to undermine its enactment as pseudo-government.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
eBook
USD 16.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
USD 79.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • African Union. 2009. “Africa Mining Vision.” http://www.townshiptimes.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Africa-Mining-Vision.pdf. Accessed April 25, 2014.

  • Aitken, Rob. 2010. “Ambiguous Incorporations: Microfinance and Global Governmentality.” Global Networks 10 (2): 223–243.

    Google Scholar 

  • Aitken, Rob. 2013. “The Financialization of Micro-Credit.” Development and Change 44 (3): 473–499.

    Google Scholar 

  • Andreasson, Stefan. 2013. “Elusive Agency: Africa’s Persistently Peripheral Role in International Relations.” In African Agency in International Politics, edited by William Brown and Sophie Harman, 143–157. Oxon and New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Andrews, Nathan. 2011. “Justice and Power: Understanding the Linkages Among Society, Economics and Politics from a Multi-level Perspective.” International Journal of Management and Business Studies 1 (4): 42–44.

    Google Scholar 

  • Andrews, Nathan. 2013. “Beyond the Ivory Tower: A Case for ‘Praxeological Deconstructionism’ as a ‘Third Way’ in IR Theorising.” Third World Quarterly 34 (1): 59–76.

    Google Scholar 

  • Andrews, Nathan. 2015. “Digging for Survival and/or Justice?: The Drivers of Illegal Mining Activities in Western Ghana.” Africa Today 62 (2): 2–24.

    Google Scholar 

  • Andrews, Nathan, and Chilenye Nwapi. 2018. “Bringing the State Back in Again? The Emerging Developmental State in Africa’s Energy Sector.” Energy Research & Social Science 41: 48–58.

    Google Scholar 

  • Andrews, Nathan, N., Ernest Khalema, and N’Dri T. Assie-Lumumba, eds. 2015. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect: Africa’s Development Beyond 2015. Heidelberg, New York, and London: Springer.

    Google Scholar 

  • Andrews, Nathan, N. Ernest Khalema, Temitope Oriola, and Isaac Odoom, eds. 2013. Africa Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow: Exploring the Multi-dimensional Discourses on ‘Development’. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

    Google Scholar 

  • Andrews, Nathan, and J. Andrew Grant, eds. 2019. Corporate Social Responsibility and Canada’s Role in Africa’s Extractive Sectors. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (forthcoming).

    Google Scholar 

  • Andrews, Nathan, and Sylvia Bawa. 2014. “A Post-development Hoax? (Re)-examining the Past, Present and Future of Development Studies.” Third World Quarterly 35 (6): 922–938.

    Google Scholar 

  • Banerjee, Subhabrata. 2014. “A Critical Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility: Towards a Global Governance Framework.” Critical Perspectives on International Business 10 (1–2): 84–95.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bawa, Sylvia. 2016. “Paradoxes of (Dis)empowerment in the Postcolony: Women, Culture and Social Capital in Ghana.” Third World Quarterly 37 (1): 119–135.

    Google Scholar 

  • Besada, Hany, and Philip Martin. 2013. “Mining Codes in Africa: Emergence of a ‘Fourth’ Generation?” Research Report, The North-South Institute. http://www.nsi-ins.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Mining-Codes-in-Africa-Report-Hany.pdf. Accessed March 13, 2015.

  • Bolwig, Simon, Stefano Ponte, Andries Du Toit, Lone Riisgaard, and Niels Halberg. 2010. “Integrating Poverty and Environmental Concerns into Value‐Chain Analysis: A Conceptual Framework.” Development Policy Review 28 (2): 173–194.

    Google Scholar 

  • Booth, Ken. 2005. “Critical Explorations.” In Critical Security Studies and World Politics, edited by Ken Booth, 1–18. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

    Google Scholar 

  • Börzel, Tanja A., and Thomas Risse. 2010. “Governance Without a State: Can It Work?” Regulation & Governance 4 (2): 113–134.

    Google Scholar 

  • Brown, William. 2012. “A Question of Agency: Africa in International Politics.” Third World Quarterly 33 (10): 1889–1908.

    Google Scholar 

  • Campbell, Bonnie. 2010. “Revisiting the Reform Process of African Mining Regimes.” Canadian Journal of Development Studies 30 (1–2): 197–217.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chambers, Robert. 1995. “Poverty and Livelihoods: Whose Reality Counts?” Environment and Urbanization 7 (1): 173–204.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chambers, Robert. 2011. “Managing Local Participation: Rhetoric and Reality.” In The Participation Reader, edited by Andrea Cornwall, 165–171. London and New York: Zed Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Coleman, Gill. 2002. “Gender, Power and Post-structuralism in Corporate Citizenship: A Personal Perspective on Theory and Change.” Journal of Corporate Citizenship 5: 17–25.

    Google Scholar 

  • Compaoré, W. R. Nadège. 2018. “Rise of the (Other) Rest? Exploring Small State Agency and Collective Power in International Relations.” International Studies Review 20 (2): 264–271.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cornelissen, Scarlett. 2013. “Corporate Social Responsibility as a Social Development Paradigm in Africa’s Political Economy: Its Emergence & Implications for African Agency.” In African Agency in International Politics, edited by William Brown and Sophie Harman, 114–126. Oxon and New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cox, Robert. W. 1981. “Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory.” Millennium 10 (2): 126–155.

    Google Scholar 

  • Crowther, David. 2008. “The Maturing of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Developmental Process.” In The Ashgate Research Companion to Corporate Social Responsibility, edited by David Crowther and Nicholas Capaldi, 19–30. Hampshire and Burlington: Ashgate.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dashwood, Hevina S., and Bill B. Puplampu. 2010. “Corporate Social Responsibility and Canadian Mining Companies in the Developing World: The Role of Organizational Leadership and Learning.” Canadian Journal of Development Studies 30 (1–2): 175–196.

    Google Scholar 

  • Diduck, Alan, A. John Sinclair, Glen Hostetler, and Patricia Fitzpatrick. 2012. “Transformative Learning Theory, Public Involvement and Natural Resource and Environmental Management.” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 55 (10): 1311–1330.

    Google Scholar 

  • Du Toit, Andries. 2004. “‘Social Exclusion’ Discourse and Chronic Poverty: A South African Case Study.” Development and Change 35 (5): 987–1010.

    Google Scholar 

  • Du Toit, Andries. 2008. “Living on the Margins: The Social Dynamics of Economic Marginalisation.” Development Southern Africa 25 (2): 135–150.

    Google Scholar 

  • Grant, J. Andrew, W. R. N. Compaoré, and M. Mitchell, eds. 2015. New Approaches to the Governance of Natural Resources: Insights from Africa. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

    Google Scholar 

  • Grosser, Kate, and Jeremy Moon. 2005. “Gender Mainstreaming and Corporate Social Responsibility: Reporting Workplace Issues.” Journal of Business Ethics 62: 327–340.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hickey, Sam. 2008. “The Return of Politics in Development Studies I: Getting Lost Within the Poverty Agenda.” Progress in Development Studies 8 (4): 349–358.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hilson, Gavin. 2012. “Poverty Traps in Small-Scale Mining Communities: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa.” Canadian Journal of Development Studies 33: 180–197.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jenkins, Katy. 2014. “Women, Mining and Development: An Emerging Research Agenda.” The Extractive Industries and Society 1 (2): 329–339.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kilgour, Maureen A. 2013. “The Global Compact and Gender Inequality: A Work in Progress.” Business and Society 52 (1): 105–134.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala. 2011. “The Megaproject of Mining: A Feminist Critique.” In Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects, edited by Stanley D. Brunn, 329–351. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, and New York: Springer Science + Business Media B.V.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala. 2012. “Digging Women: Towards a New Agenda for Feminist Critiques of Mining.” Gender, Place & Culture 19 (2): 193–212.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mercier, Laurie, and Jaclyn J. Gier. 2009. “Introduction.” In Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670 to the Present, edited by Jaclyn J. Gier and Laurie Mercier, 1–10. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nwapi, Chilenye, and Nathan Andrews. 2017. “A ‘New’ Developmental State in Africa? Evaluating Recent State Interventions vis-à-vis Resource Extraction in Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda.” McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law 13 (2): 227–265. https://www.mcgill.ca/mjsdl/files/mjsdl/4_nwapi_web.pdf.

  • Obeng-Odoom, Franklin. 2015. “Africa: On the Rise, But to Where?” Forum for Social Economics 44 (3): 234–250.

    Google Scholar 

  • Odoom, Isaac, and Nathan Andrews. 2017. “What/Who Is Still Missing in International Relations Scholarship? Situating Africa as an Agent in IR Theorising.” Third World Quarterly 38 (1): 42–60.

    Google Scholar 

  • Osei-Kojo, Alex, and Nathan Andrews. 2016. “Questioning the Status Quo: Can Stakeholder Participation Improve Implementation of Small-Scale Mining Laws in Ghana?” Resources 5 (4): 33. https://doi.org/10.3390/resources5040033.

  • Osei-Kojo, Alex, and Nathan Andrews. 2018. “A Developmental Paradox? The ‘Dark Forces’ Against Corporate Social Responsibility in Ghana’s Extractive Industry.” Environment, Development and Sustainability: 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-018-0233-9.

  • Ovadia, Jesse Salah. 2016. The Petro-Developmental State in Africa: Making Oil Work in Angola, Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea. London: Hurst.

    Google Scholar 

  • Owusu-Afriyie, John, and Edward Nketiah-Amponsah. 2014. “An Individual Level Test of the ‘Feminization of Poverty’ Hypothesis: Evidence from Ghana.” Journal of Developing Societies 30 (1): 25–43.

    Google Scholar 

  • Parkins, John R., and A. John Sinclair. 2014. “Patterns of Elitism Within Participatory Environmental Governance.” Environment and Planning C 32 (4): 746–761.

    Google Scholar 

  • Parkins, John R., and Ross E. Mitchell. 2005. “Public Participation as Public Debate: A Deliberative Turn in Natural Resource Management.” Society & Natural Resources 18 (6): 529–540.

    Google Scholar 

  • Parpart, Jane L. 2002. “Rethinking Participatory Empowerment, Gender and Development: The PRA Approach.” In Rethinking Empowerment: Gender and Development in a Global/Local World, edited by Jane L. Parpart, Shirin M. Rai, and Kathleen Staudt, 165–181. London and New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Parpart, Jane L., Shirin M. Rai, and Kathleen Staudt. 2002. “Rethinking Em(power)ment, Gender and Development: An Introduction.” In Rethinking Empowerment: Gender and Development in a Global/Local World, edited by Jane L. Parpart, Shirin M. Rai, and Kathleen Staudt, 3–21. London and New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pearson, Ruth. 2007. “Beyond Women Workers: Gendering CSR.” Third World Quarterly 28 (4): 731–749.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pedro, Antonio M. A. 2012. “The Africa Mining Vision: Towards Shared Benefits and Economic Transformation.” GREAT Insights 1 (5) (July). http://ecdpm.org/great-insights/extractive-sector-for-development/the-africa-mining-vision-towards-shared-benefits-and-economic-transformation/. Accessed April 26, 2014.

  • Shaw, Timothy M. 2012. “Africa’s Quest for Developmental States: ‘Renaissance’ for Whom?” Third World Quarterly 33 (5): 837–851.

    Google Scholar 

  • Singhal, Rekha. 2003. “Women, Gender and Development: The Evolution of Theories and Practice.” Psychology & Developing Societies 15 (2): 165–185.

    Google Scholar 

  • Taylor, Ian. 2016. “Dependency Redux: Why Africa Is Not Rising.” Review of African Political Economy 43 (147): 8–25.

    Google Scholar 

  • The Economist. 2011. “The Hopeful Continent: Africa Rising.” December 3. http://www.economist.com/node/21541015. Accessed May 15, 2017.

  • Tschakert, Petra. 2009. “Recognizing and Nurturing Artisanal Mining as a Viable Livelihood.” Resources Policy 34: 24–31.

    Google Scholar 

  • Turshen, Meredeth. 2010. “The Political Economy of Women in Africa.” In African Women: A Political Economy, edited by Meredeth Turshen, 1–21. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vertigans, Stephen. 2011. “CSR as Corporate Social Responsibility or Colonial Structures Return? A Nigerian Case Study.” International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology 3 (6): 159–162.

    Google Scholar 

  • Welker, Marina. 2014. Enacting the Corporation: An American Mining Firm in Post-authoritarian Indonesia. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wilson, Kalpana. 2011. “‘Race’, Gender and Neoliberalism: Changing Visual Representations in Development.” Third World Quarterly 32 (2): 315–331.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yakovleva, Natalia. 2007. “Perspectives on Female Participation in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: A Case Study of Birim North District of Ghana.” Resources Policy 32 (1): 29–41.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yankson, Paul W. K. 2010. “Gold Mining and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Wassa West District, Ghana.” Development in Practice 20 (3): 354–366.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Global and International Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada

    Nathan Andrews

Authors
  1. Nathan Andrews
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Nathan Andrews .

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2019 The Author(s)

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Andrews, N. (2019). The Bigger Picture: Implications for ‘Engendering’ CSR, De-responsibilization and Re-responsibilization. In: Gold Mining and the Discourses of Corporate Social Responsibility in Ghana. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92321-5_6

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation