2014
DOI: 10.1111/plar.12076
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Afterword: What Kind of a Person is the Corporation?

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“…This is not to make the reductive point that corporations or organizations should be reduced to people and not materials or discourses (see Bashkow [] for critiques of this position) but rather that “compositional” views are frequently how actors come to understand institutions. For instance, most public (and legal) discourse reifies corporations as distinct, unified social actors, Korea being no exception; within corporations, however, internal perceptions of managerial hierarchies rarely reify corporate action as separate from specific offices or powerful individuals.…”
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“…This is not to make the reductive point that corporations or organizations should be reduced to people and not materials or discourses (see Bashkow [] for critiques of this position) but rather that “compositional” views are frequently how actors come to understand institutions. For instance, most public (and legal) discourse reifies corporations as distinct, unified social actors, Korea being no exception; within corporations, however, internal perceptions of managerial hierarchies rarely reify corporate action as separate from specific offices or powerful individuals.…”
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“…By the time of the 2016 presidential campaign, the influx of corporate funds had made Citizens an icon of the campaign finance issue, with the call for reversal becoming a plank in the Democratic Party Platform . But the ruling has not been reversed, and it continues to inspire the sort of somber reflections on the future of US citizenship expressed in Justice Stevens's dissent (e.g., Bashkow ; Coleman ; Dan‐Cohen ; Ellis ; Gans and Kendall ; Youn ).…”
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“…In different ways, it is just as pressing for anthropologists. Anthropologists’ attention to Citizens has focused on the ruling's framing of corporate identity as a challenge to liberal citizenship, as well as evidence of contemporary corporate form—treating these subjects as fertile areas for anthropological theorizing in a critical vein (Bashkow ; Coleman ; Gordon ). As a major decision on the status of corporations in the United States, Citizens also raises questions that can be productively informed by recent anthropological debates about corporations as social bodies with flexible powers and prehensile interests involving diverse stakeholders (Appel ; Ballard and Banks ; Marcus ; Maurer ; Moran, King, and Carlson ; Urban ; Urban and Koh ; Wolf ).…”
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“…An interesting tangent here which was covered in some depth in a recent PoLAR issue (Issue 37:2) is the debate over the controversial category “corporate personhoods.” Kirsch () points out that while corporations have been granted the same legal rights as “natural persons” in some cases (for example, the recent Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., [573 U.S., 2014]), in other cases corporations’ personhood was not upheld (e.g., Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T [562 U.S., 2011]). As Kirsch and other contributors to the PoLAR collection demonstrate, even when courts do not uphold corporations’ status as legal persons, everyday practices within and beyond the corporation often reify their role as social persons (Bashkow ). Following these authors, I contextualize this category within my argument on the hyper‐individualistic justice system to show that although U.S. society recognizes that actions and rights are sometimes enacted by units much broader than the individual, it seems unable to find the language or framework to acknowledge that experiences, actions—and, indeed, breaches—can coexist with individual agents.…”
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