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The Banality of Corporate Evil American University in Cairo AUC Knowledge Fountain Theses and Dissertations Student Research Fall 9-1-2021 The Banality of Corporate Evil Amina Dessouki aminadessouki@aucegypt.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds Part of the Growth and Development Commons, Other Anthropology Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, and the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation APA Citation Dessouki, A. (2021).The Banality of Corporate Evil [Master's Thesis, the American University in Cairo]. AUC Knowledge Fountain. https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/1664 MLA Citation Dessouki, Amina. The Banality of Corporate Evil. 2021. American University in Cairo, Master's Thesis. AUC Knowledge Fountain. https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/1664 This Master's Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Research at AUC Knowledge Fountain. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of AUC Knowledge Fountain. For more information, please contact mark.muehlhaeusler@aucegypt.edu. 1 The American University in Cairo School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HUSS) The Banality of Corporate Evil A Thesis Submitted to The Department of Sociology, Egyptology, Anthropology In partial fulfillment of the requirements for The degree of Master of Arts in Sociology-Anthropology By Amina Ali Dessouki Under the supervision of Dr. Hanan ElSabea May 2021 2 To the most inspiring women in my life My grandma for never getting tired of listening to me My mom for being my source of laughter, friendship, and support 3 Table of Contents Acknowledgments……………………………………………………………………………. 4 INTRODUCTION……..……………………………………………………………………. 5 Some Background(s): Actor-Network Mappings……………………………………………… 9 Review of literature…………………………………………………………………………… 17 Following in Footsteps, Breaking Trails: A Conceptual Framework……………………..……21 Fieldwork & Methodology……………………………………………………………………. 25 Chapter Description…………………………………………………………………………….27 VALUABLE WASTE & DISPOSABLE HUMANS………………………………………. 29 Colonizing Reality: Development and Corporate Social Responsibility Discourse………….. 33 Product Beings: Fetishism and Phantasmagoria………………………………………….….. 39 Down The Rabbit Hole of Supply Chains: Assessments, and Product Labels …………….. 42 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………… 51 ALL IN GOOD FAITH: STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE, EPISTEMIC VIOLENCE…… 55 Oranges Have Vitamin C: You Might as Well Tell a Fish Go Climb a Tree…………………. 61 Rule of Experts: Integration and Nihilation…………………………………………………. 65 Vignette I: I Swear I Heard This……………………………………………………………… 66 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………. 78 THE STATE CORPORATION: ON NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENTALITY……….. 82 Infrastructure and Its Discontents…………………………………………………………… 87 Waltz of Shadows: Living, Enduring, Improvising…………………………………………. 93 The Twilight State: Conclusion……………………………………………………………. 101 CECI N’EST PAS UNE CONCLUSION……………………………………………….. 106 The Fundamental Anxiety of Being Human ……………………………………………….. 115 Imagine…………………………………………………………………………………….. 117 References…………………………………………………………………………………. 121 4 Acknowledgments This thesis has gone through so many ups and downs, but it was thankfully completed because of the love, support and friendship that surround me; so I would like to thank all the names mentioned below for partially shaping this thesis and the person that I am today. Hanan, for being so passionate about what you do, for classes filled with laughter, tears, intense debating and intense singing, but most importantly for being an amazing mentor and friend. Martina, I am extremely lucky to have you in my life, thank you for always being so supportive and generous with your time, for providing me with an endless supply of good books and daily news. Manuel, for providing us with a safe space to critique and help each other, for classes that turn into therapy sessions where we lose track of time and lose calories trying to chase the bus every week. Zein, for introducing me to anthropology, for endless discussions on metaphysics and meta-farts, and for making me the most delicious tea all the time. Rana, for my daily dose of laughter and for keeping me sane. Wael, for having an impeccable blu-ray collection, for aligning my syllabi with foreign movies, for adding a visceral (sometimes transcendental) element to my weekly readings, and for being a walking, breathing homage to cinema. Omar Khairy, for being present in my life in the right time, for encouraging me to write the first pages of this thesis, and for sharing excerpts of Pessoa’s book of disquiet whose thoughts are woven throughout these pages. Zeft, for introducing me to Naguib Sorour, for opposing most of my opinions and for never-ending passionate, frustrating discussions in defense of being hopeful. Salam, for being the most wonderful cohort-turned-sister and my anthropology gang, everyone I met in this program who has made the past two years so special. 5 Gedo, for supporting me despite not knowing what anthropology means. Papi, for taking me on crazy adventures. Samy, for being my tambourine man and always playing the right song for me, for laughing, spinning, swinging madly in between the music notes. My family for being the loudest, funnest, most entertaining company, for being my backbone and for occasionally forcing me to leave my desk. 6 INTRODUCTION “Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark” - Agnes de Mille This thesis grew out of a vocational detour, a leap, that unintentionally exposed me to the densely layered insides of omnipresent multinational corporations. Every stage of its development was born out of yet another detour, of nature retaliating against us through viral contagion, a pandemic forcing the world to take a brief pause. Every time I was forced to alter the path I had outlined, the road seemed bumpier and at times completely blocked but the more I navigated growingly circuitous routes, I realized taking those leaps has led me to more substantial places. As Bataille argues in The Unfinished System of Non-knowledge, experience is a gamble: “it is the gamble of being, as much of the subject it is as of the object” (Bataille:2004, 17). Chance and planning are one and the same thing; the obstacles I faced initially felt insurmountable, however when I look back now I feel a tremendous gratitude, my thesis would have taken a completely different trajectory had things gone according to plan and this is perhaps one of life’s ironies. The more our sciences can predict, rationalize and decipher new secrets in the universe, the infinitely more complex it becomes, whenever we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else (Muir). The relations of all organic beings to each other and the way conditions of existence are formed involve spontaneity, an interplay between luck and limitless misfortune. But to live with the untrammeled openendedness of such prolific not-knowing is no simple task in a world where assurances are hoarded as the bargaining chips for status and success - a world disenchanted by “a desire to make certain what is uncertain, to know what is unknowable, to turn flight across the sky into the roast upon a plate, to classify and contain” (Solnit, 2004). I never felt like my fieldwork was enough, my questions were never fully answered, every time I understood a certain element more questions would arise, unraveling my ominous compulsiveness to obtain a full picture, otherwise I continuously felt, what gives me the right to write about a process I cannot fully understand? On what basis do I form my reflexive opinions if all this experience has left me with is more questions than answers? 7 Above all, this thesis, luckily and unluckily borne out of a global pandemic, required of me an active surrender, an aerobics for cultivating a temperament of receptivity and appreciation of the most intense moments of confusion. “It is of the essence of life that it does not begin here or end there, or connect a point of origin with a final destination, but rather that it keeps on going, finding a way through the myriad of things that form, persist and break up in its currents. Life, in short, is a movement of opening, not of closure. As such, it should lie at the very heart of anthropological concern” (Ingold:2018, 4). And so it goes without saying that the myriad insights I have gathered merely form an outline. An outline filled with propositions that can be “shattered, denied, reordered” so that the following propositions could also be shattered, denied and reordered in their turn (Bataille:2004, 17). “It goes like this: reality is a shell game; our writing should be too. For a moment they interlock, but then a new pattern of ordered disorder forms, always the one before the last” (Taussig:2011, ix). The genesis of the idea behind this project began right after I finished my undergrad and accepted the first - as Graeber would say- bullshit job I was offered at a corporate communications consultancy. I was basically a ghostwriter for multinational companies’ CEOs, presidents and vice presidents but my job title was ‘storyteller’. The company’s mission was “to inspire people to redefine their potential,” and my job was to write speeches, create visual presentations, fill them with inspiring stories and rehearse the show with the person giving it usually for corporate yearly
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