Reframing Corporate Subjectivity: Systemic Inequality and the Company at the Intersection of Race, Gender and Poverty

IF 2.3 Q3 BUSINESS Business and Human Rights Journal Pub Date : 2022-02-01 DOI:10.1017/bhj.2021.63
C. Samaradiwakera-Wijesundara
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Abstract In this paper I use South Africa as a reference point to discuss the company as a juristic person and its relationship to natural persons through the concepts of subjectivity and personhood. I do this in an attempt to reveal that granting of juristic personality as ‘the company’ is not a neutral, organic or inevitable product of the law and economy but a construct symbiotically bound to the colonial state. Underlying this juristic personhood is colonial ideology which perpetuates racialized and gendered poverty and inequality as systemic oppression, in order to deliberately facilitate and maintain conditions of domination and exploitation. Rather than taking the conventional business and human rights starting point that accepts the corporate structure without critique, it is argued that by reorienting away from juristic personality as purportedly ‘neutral’ and reframing the construct, the powers of the company might be curtailed, thereby interrupting these continuing colonial logics.
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重构公司主体性:种族、性别和贫困交叉点上的系统性不平等和公司
摘要本文以南非为参考点,通过主体性和人格性的概念来讨论公司作为法人及其与自然人的关系。我这样做是为了揭示,作为“公司”授予法人资格并不是法律和经济的中立、有机或不可避免的产物,而是一种与殖民国家共生的结构。这种法人身份的基础是殖民意识形态,它将种族化和性别化的贫困和不平等永久化为系统性压迫,目的是故意促进和维持统治和剥削的条件。有人认为,与其从传统的商业和人权出发点不加批判地接受公司结构,不如通过将法人定位为所谓的“中立”并重新构建结构,公司的权力可能会被削弱,从而中断这些持续的殖民逻辑。
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期刊介绍: The Business and Human Rights Journal (BHRJ) provides an authoritative platform for scholarly debate on all issues concerning the intersection of business and human rights in an open, critical and interdisciplinary manner. It seeks to advance the academic discussion on business and human rights as well as promote concern for human rights in business practice. BHRJ strives for the broadest possible scope, authorship and readership. Its scope encompasses interface of any type of business enterprise with human rights, environmental rights, labour rights and the collective rights of vulnerable groups. The Editors welcome theoretical, empirical and policy / reform-oriented perspectives and encourage submissions from academics and practitioners in all global regions and all relevant disciplines. A dialogue beyond academia is fostered as peer-reviewed articles are published alongside shorter ‘Developments in the Field’ items that include policy, legal and regulatory developments, as well as case studies and insight pieces.
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