Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy

Introduction 1. The analytic and textual practices of the International Monetary Fund: an examination of international auditing 2. Coercive accountability: The new audit culture and its impact on Anthropology 3. Generic genius - how does it all add up? 4. Anthropology, accountability and the European Commission 5. The trickster's dilemma: ethics and the technologies of the anthropological self 6. Audited accountability and the imperative of moral responsibility: beyond the primacy of the political and the systematic and the calling of Swaraj 7. Self-accountability, ethics and 'the problem of meaning' 8. Bureaucratic rationalisation and reunification: an exploration of the ethnography and politics of accountability 9. Academia: same pressures, same conditions of work? 10. Disciples, discipline and reflection: anthropological encounters and trajectories