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Subject: CfP: The International Journal of Human Rights special issue 'Corporate Power and Human Rights'

From: Chloe Pieters <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 7:57 AM
Subject: Call for papers: The International Journal of Human Rights special
issue 'Corporate Power and Human Rights'
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To the List Editor:

Please could the following Call for Papers (below) for a special issue of
The International Journal of Human Rights be posted to the H-Human Rights
listserv? Any questions or comments can be directed to [log in to unmask]

Thank you and best wishes,
Chloe

Chloë Pieters

Human Rights Consortium Administrator
School of Advanced Study, University of London
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The University of London is an exempt charity in England and Wales and a
charity registered in Scotland (reg. no. SC041194).

Call for Papers: The International Journal of Human Rights
Special Issue: Corporate Power and Human Rights

Call for Papers

The Human Rights Consortium’s Corporate Power & Human Rights (CPHR) project
at the School of Advanced Study, University of London has been established
to facilitate creative approaches to dissolving the tension between human
rights and business activity. The project will act as a platform from which
academics, activists, businesspeople, and policymakers can transmit their
ideas and engage their peers to robustly challenge their feasibility in
order to develop meaningful alternatives to existing approaches. It will
also look at the broad structural impacts of corporate power on economies
and human rights provision. The International Journal of Human Rights
invites submissions for its Corporate Power & Human Rights Special Issue
that identify novel approaches to dissolving tensions between business and
human rights, in keeping with the project’s objectives. We invite all
relevant research in the field of business and human rights; particularly
research that challenges the status quo in business and human rights
discourse, and that seeks to identify new opportunities through the
application of different academic disciplines and theoretical concepts.

Possible themes include:

•   international trade agreements and the balancing of national and local
human rights concerns in development projects;
•   corporate complicity in human rights abuses;
•   multinational corporate accountability;
•   the uses and abuses of corporate social responsibility and corporate
sustainability;
•   resistance, social movements, and human rights pressure groups and
their impacts on business and management;
•   energy and other industry and impacts on human rights;
•   the impacts of the financial industry, financial regulation, and
governance on human rights and their ability to instigate/encourage
unethical behaviour and human rights abuses;
•   social media’s impact on grassroots movements, the visibility boost it
needs to effect serious social change vis-à-vis corporate behaviour;
•   the sociology/psychology of corporate decision-making in relation to
human rights;
•   the expanding global consumer society and human rights;
•   the content of inter-governmental obligations to aid human rights
implementation, protection, and access to justice (ICESCR Art 2(1));
•   the role of economic theory in securing human rights;
•   global enforcement of human rights obligations: legal thinking beyond a
world court; and
•   taxation, privatization, subsidies and their role in realizing/securing
human rights.

Editors include members of the steering group of the Human Rights
Consortium’s Corporate Power & Human Rights project at the Institute of
Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London:

Dr Damien Short, Nicholas Connolly, Jennifer Huseman, Manette Kaisershot,
and Helle Abelvik-Lawson.

For further information please see
http://www.sas.ac.uk/hrc/projects/corporate-power/ijhr-special-issue-corporate-power

Please send abstracts of 250-300 words and an academic CV to [log in to unmask]

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 November 2013 and full papers
of approximately 8,000 words will need to be submitted by 1 April 2014.

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