Research
Care; company; company; organizational anthropology; Hong Kong
Despite ubiquitous cautions against the romanticization of care, it has been argued that the ways in which we confront pressing questions of our times would be systemically different if we cease to rely on principled theories of rights and liabilities in favor of a vision that disparages the moral incompleteness of an ethic that purports to hold up claims of impartiality. Meanwhile, anthropological approaches to the company have often focused on how the relationship between a range of related human and non-human actors might be mediated without necessarily backsliding into a nonchalant reflection on capitalism. Notwithstanding their respective scholarly merits, however, there has been little attempt to dovetail care with the company as an interstitial line of enquiry. Using the unexplored case of the Hong Kong company, my doctoral project asks how we might re-imagine the company through the prism of care.
