The prince of Monaco gave me a present : an ethnographic examination of the governance and social world of the International Olympic Committee
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation examines the interplay between governance, social world, and habitus within the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to understand how decisions are shaped and made. In doing so, it uses the IOC as a privileged site to study a board of directors of a private global organization of import. This study shows that despite an increasing emphasis on the tenets on good governance and transparency, the rule of law, and the idea that the organization operates with all of these practices and principles front of mind, legal-rational governance does not chiefly inform decision making within this organization. This dissertation asks how decisions are really made in the IOC, and how does culture, diverse backgrounds, and disparate access to capital frame power and internal politics within the organization? This dissertation examines an elite, global, private organization at a time of dynamic contestation. It examines how an organization structured around logics of history, cultural capital, and comportment in its membership negotiates calls for good governance. This dissertation argues for the importance of attending to logics in the 'personalistic economy' and in doing so, attests to the ways in which ethnography, through its observational sensitivities and keen eye, can reveal how power actually operates in non-obvious but significant ways. This dissertation demonstrates what an animating force culture and the social world is vis-à-vis governance, even in the most cosmopolitan, modern, Western organizations. It contributes, then, to the growing field of the anthropology of global institutions by highlighting the importance of attending carefully to social worlds in understanding how impactful decisions are made
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Kayne, Saree Michele |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Thesis advisor | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Thesis advisor | Inoue, Miyako, 1962- |
| Thesis advisor | Masco, Joseph, 1964- |
| Thesis advisor | Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko, 1945- |
| Degree committee member | Inoue, Miyako, 1962- |
| Degree committee member | Masco, Joseph, 1964- |
| Degree committee member | Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko, 1945- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Saree Kayne |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Saree Michele Kayne
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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