Compliance: Cultures and Networks of Accommodation

Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied and international selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade. Compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance: instead, it appears as a valuable heuristic approach for understanding collective life, as a means by which actors strive to accommodate themselves to others. This perspective transcends conventional distinctions between power and resistance, and offers to open up new avenues of anthropological enquiry.

Author: Will Rollason
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 12/08/2023
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781805392255

About the Author

Eric Hirsch is Professor of Anthropology at Brunel University London. He has a longstanding interest in the ethnography and history of Papua New Guinea.