{"product_id":"extracting-accountability-isbn-9780262542166","title":"Extracting Accountability","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow engineers in the mining and oil and gas industries attempt to reconcile competing domains of public accountability.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe growing movement toward corporate social responsibility (CSR) urges corporations to promote the well-being of people and the planet rather than the sole pursuit of profit. In \u003ci\u003eExtracting Accountability\u003c\/i\u003e, Jessica Smith investigates how the public accountability of corporations emerges from the everyday practices of the engineers who work for them. Focusing on engineers who view social responsibility as central to their profession, she finds the corporate context of their work prompts them to attempt to reconcile competing domains of accountability—to formal guidelines, standards, and policies; to professional ideals; to the public; and to themselves. Their efforts are complicated by the distributed agency they experience as corporate actors: they are not always authors of their actions and frequently act through others.\u003cbr\u003e            Drawing on extensive interviews, archival research, and fieldwork, Smith traces the ways that engineers in the mining and oil and gas industries accounted for their actions to multiple publics—from critics of their industry to their own friends and families. She shows how the social license to operate and an underlying pragmatism lead engineers to ask how resource production can be done responsibly rather than whether it should be done at all. She analyzes the liminality of engineering consultants, who experienced greater professional autonomy but often felt hamstrung when positioned as outsiders. Finally, she explores how critical participation in engineering education can nurture new accountabilities and chart more sustainable resource futures.Series Foreword ix \u003cbr\u003ePrologue xi \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xvii \u003cbr\u003eList of Figures xxiii \u003cbr\u003e1 INTRODUCTION 1 \u003cbr\u003e2 COMPETING ACCOUNTABILITIES 27 \u003cbr\u003e3 THE BIRTH OF A BUSINESS CASE FOR SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE 59 \u003cbr\u003e4 CORPORATE SELVES 101 \u003cbr\u003e5 LIMITATIONS OF LIMINALITY 135 \u003cbr\u003e6 ENGINEERING PRAGMATISM 163 \u003cbr\u003e7 CONCLUSION: NEW FRAMEWORKS OF ACCOUNTABILITY 191 \u003cbr\u003eEpilogue 219 \u003cbr\u003eNotes 237 \u003cbr\u003eBibliography 269 \u003cbr\u003eIndex 287“In this empathetic and incisive ethnography, Jessica Smith demonstrates that we cannot hope to comprehend some of the most pressing issues of our time—including corporate ethics, accountability, and agency—without nuanced attention to the lives and labors of engineers in the extractive industry.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDouglas Rogers, Professor of Anthropology, Yale University; author of \u003ci\u003eThe Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“There is no better study of the ground-level, life-lived complications for engineers as they work to transform the world in which we all have a stake. What Jessica Smith extracts from the complex world of mining throws light across the engineering profession as well as into the problematics of any engaged scholarship today.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eCarl Mitcham, Renmin University of China and Colorado School of Mines\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eJessica M. Smith is Associate Professor in the Engineering, Design, and Society Division of the Colorado School of Mines, where she is also Director of Humanitarian Engineering Graduate Programs.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305524613349,"sku":"NP9780262542166","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262542166.jpg?v=1767726565","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/extracting-accountability-isbn-9780262542166","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}