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Corporate social responsibility in local context: international capital, charitable giving and the politics of education in Turkey

What happens when a transnational energy corporation, armed with the internationally circulating discourse of ‘corporate social responsibility’ (CSR), meets legacies of charitable giving in Turkey? With a particular focus on the important role education has (re-)attained as a target for CSR or charitable giving in Turkey, I discuss how one of the largest corporations in Turkey emphasizes education in their CSR policies. The major case study focuses on a controversy over what constitutes a ‘proper’ CSR contribution to local communities by a transnational energy corporation hoping to win support for construction of a large gas power plant on the shores of the Black Sea. I argue that local culture can be seen as being adapted to work in/for neoliberal techniques of governance, but also that corporate ethics are adapted or domesticated by local, or historically embedded moral standards.