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dc.contributor.authorSmith, Jessica M.
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-21T15:13:41Z
dc.date.available2022-02-21T15:13:41Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20220221_9780262366151_140
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78620
dc.description.abstractHow engineers in the mining and oil and gas industries attempt to reconcile competing domains of public accountability. The 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 Extracting Accountability, 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. 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEngineering Studies
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TH Energy technology and engineering::THY Energy, power generation, distribution and storage::THYC Energy efficiencyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PH Physics::PHD Classical mechanics::PHDY Energyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology::TQD Environmental monitoringen_US
dc.subject.otherEnergy technology and engineering
dc.subject.otherEnergy
dc.subject.otherEnvironmental science, engineering and technology
dc.titleExtracting Accountability
dc.title.alternativeEngineers and Corporate Social Responsibility
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedByae0cf962-f685-4933-93d1-916defa5123d
oapen.relation.isbn9780262366151
oapen.relation.isbn9780262542166
oapen.imprintThe MIT Press
oapen.pages328
oapen.place.publicationCambridge


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