Introduction: The international of everything

Rosenberg, Justin; Tallis, Benjamin

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“…Difference is what the legal construct of the corporation and, more specifically, today’s GVCs thrive on because it makes them profitable. To make difference clear as a constituent characteristic for the problem dealt with here, I understand it in a twofold sense: first, in the sense of Rosenberg as a consequence of multiple societies and their comparative diversity, which converts under conditions of international politics into a ‘historically concrete configuration of difference at a given time’ (Rosenberg and Tallis, 2022). At the same time, however, more comprehensively – and at the same time supposedly banally – as an important intra-societal characteristic.…”

Section: The Global Corporation and Gvcs As Consequences Of Multiplicitymentioning

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Multiplicity, the corporation and human rights in global value chains

Scheper¹

2022

Cooperation and Conflict

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Human rights in global value chains have become a key field of study in international law and corporate governance. The analysis often starts with a gap – a ‘governance gap’ in human rights protection. This pragmatic starting point calls for pragmatic solutions: better corporate compliance and more accountability. While this goes a long way in addressing corporate misconduct, the global corporate form, its power and legitimation in transnationally generating and appropriating value tend to become naturalized phenomena. Moreover, the effects of accountability agendas on corporate power and legitimation are hardly considered. Instead, I propose to address the ‘human rights problem’ by understanding the corporation and its networks as consequences of international politics – conceptualized as inter-societal multiplicity. The multiplicity lens offers a possibility to replace the governance gap with a productive conception of inter-societal conditions and can complement the focus on accountability and compliance. I conclude the article by tentatively sketching three important consequences of such a starting point for defining the problem of human rights in global value chains: the international dimensions of the division of labour under competitive conditions, the legitimation of corporate practices and the production of knowledge for their regulation.

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Multiplicity, the corporation and human rights in global value chains

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2022

Cooperation and Conflict

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Conceptualising the Borderscape

Tallis

2023

Frontiers in International Relations

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Socio-Spatial Multiplicity in World Politics: Non-Western Regional Imaginations of the Indo-Pacific

Watanabe

2024

International Political Sociology

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Originally a biogeographic term, “Indo-Pacific” is increasingly replacing “Asia-Pacific” in political discourse. This is not merely a linguistic matter but also has political implications. However, the meaning of “Indo-Pacific” remains unclear, and its implications are contested. While it has attracted the attention of a wide spectrum of political pundits, the regional designation “Indo-Pacific” is used to describe a space of global cooperation and geopolitical competition. This study makes two contributions by reexamining this debate. First, it helps lift the fog around the Indo-Pacific to gain a deeper understanding and encourage reflection on its current rise. Thus, it is situated within a growing body of literature that excavates the complex history of the Indo-Pacific by revisiting its Japanese wartime origins. Second, drawing on the emergent literature on multiplicity, this study shows how the term has historically invoked two different kinds of international relations in Japan. This suggests the importance of examining multiple socio-spatial imaginations internalized by diverse collectivities in the social space of international politics that goes beyond modern European state borders. Introduced by the Japanophile German geopolitician Karl Haushofer, the term was originally used to express the area of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, a region that aimed to create a world order that differed from the Western one. This significantly contradicts contemporary usage by the Japanese government, which claims that universal values exist in the region.

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Introduction: The international of everything

Abstract: This text introduces the Special Issue on Multiplicity. It sets out the broad research programme of Multiplicity, considers some criticisms that have been made of this programme and then summarises the contributions to the Special Issue.

Cited by 9 publications

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Multiplicity, the corporation and human rights in global value chains

Multiplicity, the corporation and human rights in global value chains

Conceptualising the Borderscape

Socio-Spatial Multiplicity in World Politics: Non-Western Regional Imaginations of the Indo-Pacific

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