C Shore
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 13438 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | C Shore |
| NOMBRES | C |
| APELLIDO | Shore |
| FIRMA | SHORE C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3117-9843 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 75 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1135 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Compliance, Defiance, and ‘Dirty’ Luxury
Theory of the Moral Economy of Fraud (LUXCORE) [project no.313004], which investigates
Hope
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a life-shortening genetic condition involving progressive muscular wasting for which there is no hope of recovery at present. The lives of people with DMD, cherished by their families, are systematically marginalised and undervalued by healthcare bureaucracies while enrolment in clinical trials of new treatments offers possibilities of longer-term biomedical solutions. How is hope preserved under such circumst…
Technomoral Politics in Conservative Britain
For Erica Bornstein and Aradhana Sharma writing about contemporary India, 'technomoral politics' refer to the way individuals and organisations translate moral projects into technical and implementable policies or laws, or justify technocratic acts as 'moral imperatives'. In Britain, by contrast, technomoral governance takes different forms. Rather than the (hyper-)moralisation of political programmes, policies and laws are typically advanced thr…
The bureaucratization of ethical integrity
This article critiques the expanding influence of research ethics committees (RECs) on social research, emphasizing their adverse effects on ethnographic methodologies. It argues that the bureaucratization of ethics, emphasizing compliance over contextual understanding, fundamentally misunderstands and impedes the nuanced nature of ethnographic work. Drawing on personal experiences and broader critiques, the article proposes the need for an alter…
Part 3
Seven authors reflect on Sue's contribution to developing the ‘Anthropology of Policy’ and its growth as a new sub-field of political anthropology since the 1990s. They show how her focus on policy brought together her earlier concerns with organisations, power and processes of social transformation with critical and reflexive perspectives on language, higher education reform and regimes of audit and accountability
Policy Worlds
There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance themselves, opening up ways to study power and the construction of regimes of truth. This volume argues that policies are not simply coercive, c…
Chapter 1 Conceptualising Policy
Market making and the (re)production of knowledge in public universities
This collection of short essays presents and examines six vignettes of organisational change in British, New Zealand and European universities. Drawing on the social studies of economisation literature, formal research projects and auto-ethnographic insights, the authors detail profound changes in how knowledge is produced in universities. They examine policy documents, calculative techniques and management practices to illustrate how proliferati…
Introduction
The political geography of the post-war world arid the changing climate of East-West relations had profound implications for the development of the social sciences in Europe and the USA. In 1959 a conference was held at the European headquarters of the Wenner-Grenn Foundation. Three major political factors should be taken into account in any attempt to characterize this period; the return of radical conservatism, with its associated neoliberal ec…
The Structural Violence of Indigenous Suicide Prevention Policies in Canada
Indigenous peoples in Canada suffer from very high suicide rates of which there are various state-created programmes and efforts to combat. However, the variety of these programmes may be limited in their conceptions of Indigenous suicide. I predicted that by analysing existing suicide prevention policies and frameworks, I would find that they systematically place Indigenous peoples in vulnerable positions through the enforcement of Western ideal…
Britain, Brexit and Euroscepticism
When history books about Brexit are written a key question asked will be ‘ how did it happen?’ How did a country renowned for stable governments, pragmatism and diplomacy produce a chaotic outcome so harmful to its economic interests and international standing? This article examines the factors that produced Brexit by analysing its political and historical context, the main campaign groups and their communication strategies. Drawing on the work o…
Audit failure and corporate corruption
Patron-clientelism and corruption were traditionally viewed as problems endemic to underdeveloped marginal countries with weak states, powerful self-serving elites, and widespread civic disengagement. However, recent decades have seen a dramatic increase in corruption scandals in the Global North, particularly its more developed banking and financial sectors. Paradoxically, this has occurred despite a massive expansion in auditing by internationa…
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
How the Big 4 got big
New calculative techniques of management and accountancy are having a transformative effect on organisations, individuals and society. These processes are often associated with contemporary neoliberal capitalism, but what exactly is driving the proliferation of these measurement systems and how is this change actually occurring? We address these questions by exploring the history of the Big 4 international accountancy firms and their role in spre…
From unbundling to market making
In Britain and New Zealand the neoliberal assault on universities has shifted from new public management and funding models to the special status of the public university. The project aims to complete neoliberal business initiated 25 years ago by more fully marketising and financialising universities, starting with ‘unbundling’ and outsourcing and culminating in new forms of privatisation, rent-extraction and rebundling. This paper analyses two d…
The Crown and Constitutional Reform
At the centre of the constitutional orders of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom stands a familiar icon and a usually unquestioned source of authority: the Crown. Yet that easy familiarity conceals a potent and paradoxical enigma. For some analysts the Crown is a shapeshifting anomaly: not simply a conceptual placeholder for the state, but also a constitutional fiction and mask for the extensive use of executive power, often us…
The Crown as Proxy for the State? Opening up the Black Box of Constitutional Monarchy
Despite its centrality to the constitutions of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, the Crown remains enigmatic, misunderstood and difficult to define. Is it the government, the state, the Queen, a ‘corporation sole’, an illusory construct and mask for executive power, or a shapeshifting entity that combines all these features? Legal scholars and social scientists have written extensively on the problems of theorising the state …
The Eurozone Crisis, Greece and European Integration
Around 2010, a shift in the EU-understanding of austerity took place – from a future-orientated vision based on concepts of solidarity, cohesion and subsidiarity, to a crisis-driven present shaped around the imperatives of immediate fiscal discipline and debt repayment. This has had contradictory effects, producing widespread divisions, disunity and rising nationalism across Europe on one hand, and new forms of social solidarity and resistance on…
Notes from the Section Leadership
How Corrupt Are Universities? Audit Culture, Fraud Prevention, and the Big Four Accountancy Firms
Corruption narratives, like witchcraft accusations, offer a lens for analyzing social relations, economic interests, and hidden structures of power. Developing this theme, I examine discourses of corruption in the context of growing concerns about fraud prevention and anti-corruption in universities. Moving beyond critiques of university administrations as bureaucratic, self-serving entities whose interests are increasingly antithetical to the ac…
Asap Yearly Report
Reflections on Minneapolis from the Section Leadership
Responsibilisation and leadership in the neoliberal university
We examine how discourses of leadership and responsibilisation are used in contemporary universities to deepen neoliberal administration and further the corporate university's business plan by restructuring and redescribing academic work. Strategically, responsibilisation discourse, promoted as ‘distributed leadership’, is a technology of indirect management. Responsibilisation language stipulates ‘expectations’ for workers and integrates academi…
Conceptualising policy
Anthropology of policy
Arguing that policy has become an increasingly central concept and instrument in the organisation of contemporary societies and that it now impinges on all areas of life so that it is virtually impossible to ignore or escape its influence, this book argues that the study of policy leads straight into issues at the heart of anthropology
Audit Culture and Anthropology
La profession d'anthropologue depend particulierement des universites ; or ces institutions, dans tout le monde industrialise, ont subi des re-ajustements majeurs pendant les deux dernieres decennies. L'introduction de mecanismes pour mesurer la performance educative, la qualite de la recherche et l'efficacite institutionnelle a ete centrale a ces reformes. Prenant l'education superieure en Grande Bretagne comme etude de cas, cet article analyse …
Audit culture and Illiberal governance
The economic imperatives of neoliberalism combined with the technologies of New Public Management have wrought profound changes in the organization of the workplace in many contemporary capitalist societies. Calculative practices including `performance indicators' and `benchmarking' are increasingly being used to measure and reform public sector organizations and improve the productivity and conduct of individuals across a range of professions. T…
Audit Culture Revisited
The spread of the rationality and techniques of financial accounting into new systems for measuring, ranking and auditing performance represents one of the most important and defining features of contemporary governance. Audit procedures are redefining accountability, transparency, and good governance and reshaping the way organisations and individuals have to operate. They also undermine professional autonomy and have unanticipated and dysfuncti…
Toward an Anthropology of Public Policy
As the rational choice model of "policy" proliferates in "policy studies, " the social sciences, modern governments, organizations, and everyday life, a number of anthropologists are beginning to develop a body of work in the anthropology of public policy that critiques the assumptions of "policy" as a legal-rational way of getting things done. While de-masking the framing of public policy questions, an anthropological approach attempts to uncove…
Inventing the 'People's Europe
Apres un examen des modeles anthropologiques qui rendent compte de la formation identitaire europeenne, et de leur valeur explicative pour l'integration europeenne, l'A. se demande si l'etude des dynamiques d'integration en Europe ne pourrait pas amener a repenser ces modeles. La construction de l'« Europe » par la CE pose probleme. L'A. se demande s'il est possible de construire une identite europeenne saillante sans l'erosion des anciens nation…
La antropología y el estudio de la política pública
Este artigo explora a relação entre antropologia e o estudo de políticas públicas, focando no processo de formulação de políticas. Shore argumenta que a antropologia oferece ferramentas conceituais e metodológicas valiosas para entender a complexidade das políticas públicas, indo além das abordagens tecnocráticas tradicionais. O autor destaca a importância de considerar os contextos sociais, culturais e políticos na formulação de políticas, bem c…
Brexit Referendum
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of the British Referendum on leaving or remaining in the EU was to remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything was forever, until it was no more (Yurchak 2006).In the book, Yurchak describes the feeling of many people in Russia when the Soviet Union broke up: it came as a complete shock because they thought it would never happen; but once it had happened, it w…
Whither European Citizenship
A claim frequently made about European Citizenship is that by decoupling ‘rights’ from ‘identity’ it challenges us to rethink the classical Westphalian model of citizenship. According to some EU scholars and constitutional experts, this beckons a new form of ‘supranational’ citizenship practice based not on emotional attachments to territory and cultural affinities (‘Eros’), but to the rights and values of a civil society – or what Habermas calls…
Getting the Measure of Academia
Audit culture and the politics of accountability are transforming not just universities and their role in society, but the very notions of society, academics and students. The modern 'university of excellence' applies a totalising and coercive commensurability to virtually every aspect of university life, from research output and teaching quality to parking space. But more than this, the politics of accountability enmesh universities in conflicts…
Cultural Change and the New Europe
Politicians can negotiate currency disputes, redraw national boundaries, and raise trade tariffs but what unforeseen problems may be caused by the melding of societal boundaries and the lowering of cultural tariffs? Originating from a range of nationalities and ethnic groups, the contributors to this volume focus on cultural and social processes of European integration in 1992. Looking at such key themes as culture, nation, community, and identit…
Anthropology of Organizations
Who 'owns' the university? Institutional autonomy and academic freedom in an age of knowledge capitalism
The neoliberal reframing of universities as economic engines and the growing emphasis on 'third stream' commercial activities are global phenomena albeit with significant local variations. This article uses the concept of 'ownership' to examine how these processes are impacting on institutional self-understandings and academic-management relations. Drawing on ethnographic research from New Zealand, including recent disputes between academics and …
Whose Accountability? Governmentality and the Auditing of Universities
One of the most interesting aspects of the transformation that has been occurring in universities in the United Kingdom and elsewhere over the past decade and a half has been the extraordinary proliferation of new managerial discourses of ‘accountability’ and ‘excellence’. What we seem to be witnessing throughout the university sector, as in numerous other domains of life, are the curious effects of what anthropologists have termed ‘audit culture…
Anthropology's Identity Crisis
En Grande-Bretagne, un rapport revele une image publique de l'anthropologie plutot negative. Les stereotypes de l'anthropologue excentrique, en rapport avec le colonialisme, demeurent. Ces images ne sont pas seulement dues aux medias mais aussi aux anthropologues eux-memes. Afin d'ameliorer cette perception, les anthropologues se doivent d'elargir leur lectorat, un enseignement pre-universitaire pourrait etre donne, et l'anthropologie popularisee…
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
Representing Europe
Debate over ‘loyalty transfer’ in the European Union (EU) centres on the assumption that elite socialisation and ‘spillover’ processes lead inevitably to changes in the behaviour and identities of European officials. This article interrogates that notion by exploring how officials in the EU external delegations represent Europe. The Lisbon Treaty (2009) will transform the delegations in ways that are emblematic of the EU's evolution as a global a…
How Corrupt Are Universities? Audit Culture, Fraud Prevention, and the Big Four Accountancy Firms
Corruption narratives, like witchcraft accusations, offer a lens for analyzing social relations, economic interests, and hidden structures of power. Developing this theme, I examine discourses of corruption in the context of growing concerns about fraud prevention and anti-corruption in universities. Moving beyond critiques of university administrations as bureaucratic, self-serving entities whose interests are increasingly antithetical to the ac…
The European Communities
Responsibilisation and leadership in the neoliberal university
We examine how discourses of leadership and responsibilisation are used in contemporary universities to deepen neoliberal administration and further the corporate university's business plan by restructuring and redescribing academic work. Strategically, responsibilisation discourse, promoted as ‘distributed leadership’, is a technology of indirect management. Responsibilisation language stipulates ‘expectations’ for workers and integrates academi…
Virgin Births and Sterile Debates
This article explores the anthropological debate surrounding new reproductive technologies (NRTs). It critiques the tendency within anthropology to focus on the sociocultural implications of NRTs through the lens of kinship, thereby neglecting the embodied experiences of women and the broader political-economic context. The authors argue that the focus on "virgin births" and the supposed disruption of traditional kinship structures obscures the c…
From unbundling to market making
In Britain and New Zealand the neoliberal assault on universities has shifted from new public management and funding models to the special status of the public university. The project aims to complete neoliberal business initiated 25 years ago by more fully marketising and financialising universities, starting with ‘unbundling’ and outsourcing and culminating in new forms of privatisation, rent-extraction and rebundling. This paper analyses two d…
The Eurozone Crisis, Greece and European Integration
Around 2010, a shift in the EU-understanding of austerity took place – from a future-orientated vision based on concepts of solidarity, cohesion and subsidiarity, to a crisis-driven present shaped around the imperatives of immediate fiscal discipline and debt repayment. This has had contradictory effects, producing widespread divisions, disunity and rising nationalism across Europe on one hand, and new forms of social solidarity and resistance on…
Paradoxes of ‘public diplomacy’
‘Public diplomacy’ is a term increasingly used among policy makers and academics, yet its meaning is ambiguous and contested. Advocates proclaim it as a new approach to statecraft entailing a participatory approach of shared meaning‐making between politicians and the public markedly different from the elitist, Machiavellian inter‐governmental practices of traditional (‘Westphalian’) diplomacy. The European Union ( EU ) has embraced these ideals, …
Cultura de auditoria e governança iliberal
Os imperativos econômicos do neoliberalismo combinados com as tecnologias do Novo Gerenciamento Público forjaram profundas mudanças na organização do local de trabalho em muitas sociedades capitalistas contemporâneas. Práticas de cálculo que incluem "indicadores de desempenho" e são cada vez mais usados para medir e reformar organizações do setor público e melhorar a produtividade e a conduta de indivíduos em diversas profissões. Esses processos …
The Limits of Ethnography Versus the Poverty of Theory
Calls for anthropology to move ‘beyond ethnography’ are not new, but the frequency of their utterance suggests that they tend to go unheeded. A question increasingly asked today is ‘is it possible to do ethnography on an awkward scale’? (Comaroff and Comaroff 2003). In our increasingly globalized world, the material and moral conditions that animate local events are not easily captured by the ethnographer’s lens. In a recent critique, Paul Willis…
"Neoliberalisation and the "Death of the Public University
The advance of neoliberalism is often linked to what many authors describe as the "death of the public university". Taking up this theme, we explore the idea of the "neoliberal university" as a model and its implications for academia. We argue that this model is having a transformative effect, not only the core values and distinctive purpose of the public university, but also on academic subjectivities of the professional ethos that has tradition…
Teaching Undergraduate Anthropology
Lenin and the Crisis of Communism
THE 1990 MAY DAY PARADE IN MOSCOW'S RED SQUARE provided an extraordinary spectacle of the growing dilemma faced by the Soviet leadership. Mikhail Gorbachev, flanked by members of the Politburo, stood atop the Lenin Mausoleum while below an angry crowd of demonstrators booed, jeered and defiantly waved placards and portraits of opposition politicians. It was an historic occasion, reminiscent of the last days of the CeauSescu regime in Romania. Not…
Italian Communism
Part 1 Socialism in crisis. Part 2 The PCI's approach to power: history and identity of the PCI the theory and practice of Italian Communism political socialization and party allegiance. Part 3 The PCI and the question of democracy: PCI organization, role and theory Communism at the crossroads - Eurocommunism and the Soviet question pluralism versus Democratic centralism - Leninism versus Marxism
The European Communities
Virgin Births and Sterile Debates
This article explores the anthropological debate surrounding new reproductive technologies (NRTs). It critiques the tendency within anthropology to focus on the sociocultural implications of NRTs through the lens of kinship, thereby neglecting the embodied experiences of women and the broader political-economic context. The authors argue that the focus on "virgin births" and the supposed disruption of traditional kinship structures obscures the c…
Inventing the 'People's Europe
Apres un examen des modeles anthropologiques qui rendent compte de la formation identitaire europeenne, et de leur valeur explicative pour l'integration europeenne, l'A. se demande si l'etude des dynamiques d'integration en Europe ne pourrait pas amener a repenser ces modeles. La construction de l'« Europe » par la CE pose probleme. L'A. se demande s'il est possible de construire une identite europeenne saillante sans l'erosion des anciens nation…
Applied Anthropology
Cultural Change and the New Europe
Politicians can negotiate currency disputes, redraw national boundaries, and raise trade tariffs but what unforeseen problems may be caused by the melding of societal boundaries and the lowering of cultural tariffs? Originating from a range of nationalities and ethnic groups, the contributors to this volume focus on cultural and social processes of European integration in 1992. Looking at such key themes as culture, nation, community, and identit…
Anthropology's Identity Crisis
En Grande-Bretagne, un rapport revele une image publique de l'anthropologie plutot negative. Les stereotypes de l'anthropologue excentrique, en rapport avec le colonialisme, demeurent. Ces images ne sont pas seulement dues aux medias mais aussi aux anthropologues eux-memes. Afin d'ameliorer cette perception, les anthropologues se doivent d'elargir leur lectorat, un enseignement pre-universitaire pourrait etre donne, et l'anthropologie popularisee…
Anthropology of Organizations
Inventing Homo Europaeus
Audit Culture and Anthropology
La profession d'anthropologue depend particulierement des universites ; or ces institutions, dans tout le monde industrialise, ont subi des re-ajustements majeurs pendant les deux dernieres decennies. L'introduction de mecanismes pour mesurer la performance educative, la qualite de la recherche et l'efficacite institutionnelle a ete centrale a ces reformes. Prenant l'education superieure en Grande Bretagne comme etude de cas, cet article analyse …
Elite Cultures
Drawing on a diverse, comparative ethnographic literature, this new volume examines the intimate spaces and cultural practices of those elites who occupy positions of power and authority across a variety of different settings. Using ethnographic case studies from a wide range of geographical areas, including Mexico, Peru, Amazonia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Europe, North America and Africa, the contributors explore the inner worlds of meaning and pra…
Anthropology of Policy
Arguing that policy has become an increasingly central concept and instrument in the organisation of contemporary societies and that it now impinges on all areas of life so that it is virtually impossible to ignore or escape its influence, this book argues that the study of policy leads straight into issues at the heart of anthropology
The Enron Scandal
On 2 December 2001, four days after its credit rating had been downgraded to junk bond status, the Enron Corporation of Houston, Texas, filed the biggest bankruptcy petition in the history of the United States. On the 14 March 2002, Enron’s accountants, Arthur Anderson, were indicted by a federal grand jury on the criminal charge of obstruction of justice for “knowingly, intentionally and corruptly” inducing employees to shred documents relating …
Whose Accountability? Governmentality and the Auditing of Universities
One of the most interesting aspects of the transformation that has been occurring in universities in the United Kingdom and elsewhere over the past decade and a half has been the extraordinary proliferation of new managerial discourses of ‘accountability’ and ‘excellence’. What we seem to be witnessing throughout the university sector, as in numerous other domains of life, are the curious effects of what anthropologists have termed ‘audit culture…
Whither European Citizenship
A claim frequently made about European Citizenship is that by decoupling ‘rights’ from ‘identity’ it challenges us to rethink the classical Westphalian model of citizenship. According to some EU scholars and constitutional experts, this beckons a new form of ‘supranational’ citizenship practice based not on emotional attachments to territory and cultural affinities (‘Eros’), but to the rights and values of a civil society – or what Habermas calls…
Debating the European Union
All in the Translation
This article explores the politics of translation in the context of the European Union and, more specifically, the 2004 EU Constitutional Treaty. The argument is in two parts. The first examines the broader theoretical and conceptual debates in anthropology that have been waged around the idea of ‘cultural translation’. Drawing on the work of Asad (986), Pálsson (1993) and others, I assess the utility of metaphors of domination and appropriation…
Toward an Anthropology of Public Policy
As the rational choice model of "policy" proliferates in "policy studies, " the social sciences, modern governments, organizations, and everyday life, a number of anthropologists are beginning to develop a body of work in the anthropology of public policy that critiques the assumptions of "policy" as a legal-rational way of getting things done. While de-masking the framing of public policy questions, an anthropological approach attempts to uncove…
Getting the Measure of Academia
Audit culture and the politics of accountability are transforming not just universities and their role in society, but the very notions of society, academics and students. The modern 'university of excellence' applies a totalising and coercive commensurability to virtually every aspect of university life, from research output and teaching quality to parking space. But more than this, the politics of accountability enmesh universities in conflicts…
The Limits of Ethnography Versus the Poverty of Theory
Calls for anthropology to move ‘beyond ethnography’ are not new, but the frequency of their utterance suggests that they tend to go unheeded. A question increasingly asked today is ‘is it possible to do ethnography on an awkward scale’? (Comaroff and Comaroff 2003). In our increasingly globalized world, the material and moral conditions that animate local events are not easily captured by the ethnographer’s lens. In a recent critique, Paul Willis…
Audit culture and Illiberal governance
The economic imperatives of neoliberalism combined with the technologies of New Public Management have wrought profound changes in the organization of the workplace in many contemporary capitalist societies. Calculative practices including `performance indicators' and `benchmarking' are increasingly being used to measure and reform public sector organizations and improve the productivity and conduct of individuals across a range of professions. T…
Cultura de auditoria e governança iliberal
Os imperativos econômicos do neoliberalismo combinados com as tecnologias do Novo Gerenciamento Público forjaram profundas mudanças na organização do local de trabalho em muitas sociedades capitalistas contemporâneas. Práticas de cálculo que incluem "indicadores de desempenho" e são cada vez mais usados para medir e reformar organizações do setor público e melhorar a produtividade e a conduta de indivíduos em diversas profissões. Esses processos …
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