Kim Fortun 2001 Green Consulting (ch 11 from Advocacy after Bhopal)
Green consultants post-Bhopal; weaponizing sustainable development; advertisements showing co-opting of environmentalism by corporations; engagement with activists but on the corporation's terms; g
Leigh Campoamor 2019 There's An App For That
Telecom company in Colombia; app for shallow digital activism about child labor; shallow translation of universal value into local context; community created among new digital activists as children
Dinah Rajak 2011 Theatres of Virtue
Indices and award ceremonies that measure, rank, verify, and celebrate CSR; rhetoric about the incompetence of "3rd world" governments; support of celebrities and colonizer-country government entit
Pun et. al. 2019 Challenging Digital Capitalism
Suicides at Foxconn factories around 2010 in China; activism; resignifying as structural rather than individual aberrations and psychologizing narratives; scholarship to engage the conditions of th
Raman 2007 Community - Coca-Cola Interface
Coca-Cola in India; lawsuits, state high court rulings; sustainability reports; refusal by corporation to comply
Sally Babidge 2015 The Problem With ’Transparency’
Copper mine in Chile; transparency discourse; reporting to indigenous community; scientific data as transparency; rejection of data; accuracy in measurement; ethics through interpersonal relationsh
Allison Loconto 2014 Sustaining An Enterprise
Sustainability standards written in the "Global North" and applied in the "Global South" where they are not really relevant; certification; ontological politics
Nora Kenworthy 2014 A Manufactu(RED) Ethics
Product (RED) garment manufacturing in Lesotho; ethical production zone; factory clinics providing free HIV treatment and other healthcare at a cost; performance of inspections when the conditions
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