“It’s not me, it’s the corporation”: the value of corporate accountability in the global political economy

Baars, Grietje

doi:10.1093/lril/lrw008

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“…My conclusion is that it is precisely because of laws' relationship to capital that law cannot categorically be successfully employed to prevent, or remedy, the many negative effects of corporate capitalism around the world. Capitalism produces those effects and it is law that makes that possible, and profi table (Baars 2016).…”

Section: Transversing Sexualities and Critiques Of Capitalmentioning

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Transversing Sexualities and Critiques of Capital

O'Brien¹,

Raha²,

Baars³

et al. 2022

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This forum has come about through a series of conversations and discussions over a period of time in 2021-2022. Our ambition was to bring together scholars from different disciplines and perspectives, hoping for mutual curiosity and dialogue. We invited the participants to the forum to consider the following question: “How can we understand the complex and often contradictory ways through which sexualities and capital are related to, shaped by, and constitutive of each other?” Due to restrictions and exigencies of the corona situation together with time zone obstacles, the conversation had different modes. The fi rst part of the forum consisted of an online video-recorded conversation between M.E. O’Brien, Nat Raha and Grietje Baars. The conversation was moderated by Liu Xin and Mathias Klitgård. Laura Horn provided editorial support. Jin Haritaworn and Lisa Adkins then kindly sent their contributions to this conversation in writing. What you will read in the following is hence a conversation across three continents, which mixes synchronous and asynchronous elements, and which aims to show the strengths but also divergences and open questions in these different engagements.

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Section: Transversing Sexualities and Critiques Of Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transversing Sexualities and Critiques of Capital

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Baars³

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“…The political economy is concerned with the production and commercialization of products and relationships between these factors and laws, as well as political, cultural, demographic, and economic variables [ 115 ]. The “political economy” cluster ( Figure 4 h) is related to political regimes (e.g., “capitalism”) through works which discuss corporate responsibility and the value of work under the capitalist system [ 116 ]. Researchers present opposing opinions on the impact of capitalism on HR: on the one hand, capitalism is seen by some as destructive for society; on the other hand, it is discussed by others as a plausible alternative for human development through organizations [ 115 ].…”

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Thirty Years of Human Rights Study in the Web of Science Database (1990–2020)

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Furstenau

Sott

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The study of human rights (HR) is vital in order to enhance the development of human beings, but this field of study still needs to be better depicted and understood because violations of its core principles still frequently occur worldwide. In this study, our goal was to perform a bibliometric performance and network analysis (BPNA) to investigate the strategic themes, thematic evolution structure, and trends of HR found in the Web of Science (WoS) database from 1990 to June 2020. To do this, we included 25,542 articles in the SciMAT software for bibliometric analysis. The strategic diagram produced shows 23 themes, 12 of which are motor themes, the most important of which are discussed in this article. The thematic evolution structure presented the 21 most relevant themes of the 2011–2020 period. Our findings show that HR research is directly related to health issues, such as mental health, HIV, and reproductive health. We believe that the presented results and HR panorama presented have the potential to be used as a basis on which researchers in future works may enhance their decision making related to this field of study.

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“…Rather, to put a difficult task simply, it calls for dismantling or fundamentally altering the corporate 86 Knox (2009Knox ( , 2010. 87 Baars (2016), p. 131. 88 Baars (2016), p. 132. form and a radically different organisation of the global economic system.…”

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Toward a Strategic Engagement with the Question of the Corporation

Bader¹

2021

Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights

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Corporations, in their quest for the highest profit margin, have violated human rights, labour rights and environmental standards for decades, with little to no accountability. In recent years, the fight for corporate accountability under the banner of “Business and Human Rights” has come to dominate civil society’s engagement with the “question of the corporation.” This chapter aims to critically examine the political objectives underpinning the broad-church project of Business and Human Rights in its world-making aspirations, taking the Legally Binding Instrument currently under discussion at the UN Human Rights Council as a case study. Using a historical narrative approach, this article first situates the evolution of Business and Human Rights within neoliberal globalisation and, against this backdrop, attempts to think through the “dark side” of this particular strand of human rights activism. By bringing critical legal scholarship on the corporation and human rights into closer conversation with Business and Human Rights, the article aims to excavate the latter’s structural flaws, namely that it leaves the asymmetries in the global economy and the imperial corporate form unchallenged. By problematising Business and Human Rights’ presupposition of business as fact and its uncritical embrace of rights as positive change-makers, the article presents an invitation to rethink strategic political objectives vis-à-vis corporate rights abuses.

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“It’s not me, it’s the corporation”: the value of corporate accountability in the global political economy

Cited by 27 publications

References 13 publications

Transversing Sexualities and Critiques of Capital

Transversing Sexualities and Critiques of Capital

Thirty Years of Human Rights Study in the Web of Science Database (1990–2020)

Toward a Strategic Engagement with the Question of the Corporation

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