The ethics of material provisioning: Insiders’ views of work in the extractive industries

Smith, Jessica M.

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2019.05.014

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“…Her view of mining was that it was a necessary and beneficial service that provided much of the comforts of modern life. Smith (2019, p. 813) describes a similar ‘ethics of material provisioning’ in her work with American mine engineers, which ‘provided a positive ethical valence for their work as providing necessary resources for a world that seemed to increasingly demand them’.…”

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“…I will describe how my role within this organisation—and the interpersonal relations I developed with the pro‐coal lobbyists—allowed me to witness the ambiguities through which they related to the industry, often through perfunctory and unproductive work alongside whispered asides of critique (Steinmüller, 2010, 2013). I will then move on to discuss when this general ambivalence transformed into a more strident defence of the industry, using the example of the education project, and the ethics of material provisioning (Smith, 2019) that the lobbyists emphasised in relation to accusations of immorality that filtered into their everyday lives through their children. I will show how coal lobbyists became implicated in the moral debates that frame the context of their work.…”

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The moral case for coal: The ethics of complicity with and amongst Australian pro‐coal lobbyists

Dahlgren

2021

Australian J of Anthropology

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Concern with climate change, and coal's contribution to it, has centred coal in an intensely moralised politics of accusation in Australia. This paper discusses the ordinary ethics through which pro‐coal lobbyists in Australia relate to this moralised landscape and offers an analysis of the everyday and ordinary production of complicity with climate change. It argues that complicity is not just something that insufficiently ethical people engage in, but instead highlights the ways in which the coal industry derives a moral weight for its defenders. This complicity is made and reproduced precisely through the everyday practices of ethical deliberation figured in response to interpersonal moral accusations. These insights are made possible through the author's own positionality and surprising affinities with pro‐coal lobbyists, and thus this paper argues for an anthropology of extractive industry which embraces the interplay of anthropological rapport with complicity.

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The moral case for coal: The ethics of complicity with and amongst Australian pro‐coal lobbyists

Dahlgren

2021

Australian J of Anthropology

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“…Corporate Ethics This paper categories the content of corporate ethics into internal part and external part. Internal part includes labor ethics (Hussey, 2011), shareholder ethics (Smith, 2019) and workplace ethics (Pereira et al, 2012). On the other hand, external part includes customer ethics (Le Ray and Pinson, 2020), competition ethics (Ferrell et al, 2019), and social responsibility/welfare (Roth, 1997).…”

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Exploring the Assessment Model of Corporate Ethics Influencing Organizational Performance

Lee¹,

Chang²

2021

Advances in Management and Applied Economics

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The purpose of this paper is to explore the appropriate assessment model for examining the relationship between corporate ethics and organizational performance. First, this study discusses the level of ethical cognition of employees, and then, discusses whether corporate ethics whatever internal and external factors are related to organizational performance. Also, this paper states the ethics of employees from the aspects of laws and regulations, employee’s interests, organizational mission, and so on. Company’s ability of implementing corporate ethics is also an important factor of affecting the practitioner’s cognition concerning about corporate ethics and further manipulating organizational business performance. Those companies with belief in doing good corporate ethics have created better organizational performance. The result findings of this study can benefit both academic researchers and practitioners gain new insights in quantifying organizational performance by focusing on the perspective of corporate ethics. JEL classification numbers: J53, L21, M10. Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Organizational Performance.

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“…The pursuit of optimal material gain for all through calculation is a recurring ethical commitment, yet its specificities vary significantly across these infrastructures and over time. In some places it's about achieving distance from manual labor (United Kingdom), whereas in others it's about advancing society toward imagined perfection (France), maximizing low-cost production for mass consumption (United States), catching up with others (Korea), and so on (Downey and Lucena 2004;Smith 2019). Engineers and engineering are already more than one thing, with localized forms of technical knowledge that include localized forms of social knowledge.…”

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“…It is better than "normative holism," which I have also used. See also Jessica Smith's (2019Smith's ( , 2021 framing of this commitment as an "ethic of material provisioning." It carries the twin benefits of clearly locating the commitment in the material world and critically participating in the engineers' existing commitment to engineering ethics.…”

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Critical Participation: Inflecting Dominant Knowledge Practices through STS

Downey¹

2021

Making &Amp; Doing

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gAry lee downey reign. Achieving travel for STS knowledge involves expressing it through techniques, devices, infrastructures, selves, and other STS sensibilities and then attaching them in empirical settings beyond the boundaries of the field. 5 This invitation confronted me with a particularly vexed issue faced by projects in STS making & doing: how to express and attach STS knowledge in ways that actually inflect and reframe dominant knowledge practices?Alongside the activist educators, my own critical analyses of the making of engineers have found engineering to confront itself with a significant cultural problem, one that can make engineering practices self-limiting. Yet we have understood the issue differently. The educators diagnosed a cultural problem that surrounds the technical core of engineering practices and, hence, lies beyond the engineering science curriculum. My sociotechnical accounts have rooted a problem precisely within the technical core of engineering practices. From this point of view, any self-limitation in engineering practices starts in the heart of engineering science calculation rather than in practices around it. 6 The advocates of active learning were seeking an expert consultant to help them overcome resistance from stubborn engineering faculty. I was seeking practices to enable sociotechnical knowledge to travel into and inflect their world, persuading them to relocate the cultural problem within the technical core and, hence, the curriculum. When reframed in sociotechnical terms, I claimed, the resistance they felt to practices of active learning certainly included but also extended beyond specific techniques for teaching and learning. It is born in the settled knowledge, identities, and commitments of those faculty as engineers.

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The ethics of material provisioning: Insiders’ views of work in the extractive industries

Cited by 21 publications

References 15 publications

The moral case for coal: The ethics of complicity with and amongst Australian pro‐coal lobbyists

The moral case for coal: The ethics of complicity with and amongst Australian pro‐coal lobbyists

Exploring the Assessment Model of Corporate Ethics Influencing Organizational Performance

Critical Participation: Inflecting Dominant Knowledge Practices through STS

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