Seeking Justice: Access to Remedy for Corporate Human Rights Abuse explores victims' varying experiences in seeking remedy mechanisms for corporate human rights abuse. It puts forward a novel theory about the possibility of productive contestation and explores governance outcomes for victims of corporate human rights abuse across Latin America. This foundation informs three pathways that victims can use to press for their rights: working within the institutional environment, capitalizing on corporate characteristics, and elevating voices. Seeking Justice challenges the common assumptions in the governance gap literature and argues, instead, that greater democratic practices can emerge from productive contestation. This book brings to bear tough questions about the trade-offs associated with economic growth and conflicting values around human dignity-questions that are very salient today, as citizens around the globe contemplate the type of democratic and economic systems that might better prepare us for tomorrow.
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'... an outstanding contribution to the BHR field, both because of its substantive insights about access to remedy as well as the innovative methods it uses to reach them. It is also clearly written and filled with numerous relevant examples and testimonies.' Jordi Vives-Gabriel, Business and Human Rights Journal
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
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978-1-009-29324-2 (9781009293242)
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Tricia D. Olsen is Associate Professor and Associate Dean at the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business and holds a joint appointment at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies. Olsen's work on human rights, political economy, business ethics, and transitional justice has been supported by the National Science Foundation, USAID, and Fulbright, among others.
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University of Minnesota
1. Human rights in the corporate context: the challenge of accountability; 2. Varieties of remedy: how contestation shapes governance; 3. The corporations and human rights database; 4. How contestation shapes access to judicial remedy; 5. How contestation shapes access to non-judicial remedy; 6. Does it work? How contestation shapes democratic practices; 7. Conclusion: implications of the varieties of remedy approach.
