{"product_id":"competing-responsibilities-9780822363750","title":"Competing Responsibilities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a mix of ethnography and social theory, the contributors to \u003ci\u003eCompeting Responsibilities\u003c\/i\u003e challenge contemporary understandings of responsibility in political, social, and ethical life by showing how neoliberalism's reification of the \"responsible subject\" masks the myriad forms of individual and collective responsibility that people engage with in their everyday lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCompeting Responsibilities\u003c\/i\u003e makes a valuable theoretical and empirical contribution to social scientific understandings of responsibility at a key moment in the world’s unfolding. . . . This is an accomplished collection with a sustained argument running through it, thus offering substantive and always eloquent interpretations of responsibility and creating a text that has broad-ranging value to the academy and indeed, beyond.” -- Fiona Murphy * Social Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCompeting Responsibilities\u003c\/i\u003e builds on the centrality of ‘responsibilization’ in neoliberal technologies of governance. . . . This insightful collection will provide food for thought for both researchers and advanced students.\" -- John Gledhill * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Competing Responsibilities: Reckoning Personal Responsibility, Care for the Other, and the Social Contract in Contemporary Life \/ Susanna Trnka and Catherine Trundle  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Theoretical Departures\u003cbr\u003e 1. Making Us Resilient: Responsible Citizens for Uncertain Times \/ Nikolas Rose and Filippa Lentzos  27\u003cbr\u003e 2. Attunement: Rethinking Responsibility \/ Jarrett Zigon  49\u003cbr\u003e Part II. States, Companies, and Communities\u003cbr\u003e 3. Reciprocal Responsibilities: Struggles over (New and Old) Social Contracts, Environmental Pollution, and Childhood Asthma in the Czech Republic \/ Susanna Trnka  71\u003cbr\u003e 4. Audit Culture and the Politics of Responsibility: Beyond Neoliberal Responsibilization? \/ Cris Shore  96\u003cbr\u003e 5. From Corporate Social Responsibility to Creating Shared Value: Contesting Responsibilization and the Mining Industry \/ Jessica M. Smith  118\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Violence\u003cbr\u003e 6. \"The Information Is Out There\": Transparency, Responsibility, and the Missing in Cyprus \/ Elizabeth Anne Davis  135\u003cbr\u003e 7. Justice and Its Doubles: Producing Postwar Responsibilities in Sierra Leone \/ Rosalind Shaw  156\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Intimate Ties\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Politics of Responsibility in HIV \/ Barry D. Adam  181\u003cbr\u003e 9. Responsibilities of the Third Age and the Intimate Politics of Sociality in Poland \/ Jessica Robbins-Ruszowski  193\u003cbr\u003e 10. Genetic Bystanders: Familial Responsibility and the State's Accountability to Veterans of Nuclear Tests \/ Catherine Trundle  213\u003cbr\u003e References  233\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  263\u003cbr\u003e Index  267","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406102438231,"sku":"9780822363750","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822363750.jpg?v=1730494537","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/competing-responsibilities-9780822363750","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}