TY - JOUR AU - Whyte, David PY - 2018/12/17 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Corporate Citizen and the Sovereign Exception: from 'homo sacer' to 'homo supra' JF - Oñati Socio-Legal Series JA - Oñati Socio-Legal Series VL - 8 IS - 6 SE - Corporate exceptionalism DO - UR - https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/982 SP - 950-975 AB - <p>This paper is concerned with a concept that has permeated discussions about the corporation in the early 21st century: the &ldquo;corporate citizen&rdquo;. The paper uses the liberal understanding of citizenship that involves responsibilities and duties owed to the state on one hand, and the rights guaranteed by the state on the other as its starting point, and applies this dualism to the corporate citizen. Yet the rights and duties applied to corporations are not strictly analogous to the corresponding rights and responsibilities of real flesh and blood citizens. Corporate citizenship implies a set of exceptional powers and privileges that combine to produce <em>homo supra</em>, a paradigmatic &ldquo;supra-sovereign&rdquo; subject that is empowered to enjoy sovereign protections and rights far-exceeding those that any ordinary citizen could expect. The paper thus shows how the process of ascribing corporate citizenship has become a key mechanism through which unequal power relations (and attendant privileges of class, gender and race etc.) is guaranteed. <br /><br /> El art&iacute;culo se ocupa del concepto de &ldquo;ciudadano corporativo&rdquo;. Utiliza la forma liberal de entender la ciudadan&iacute;a, la cual, como punto de partida, implica responsabilidades y deberes hacia el Estado, por un lado, y los derechos garantizados por el Estado, por el otro, y aplica esa dualidad al ciudadano corporativo. Sin embargo, los derechos y deberes impuestos a las corporaciones no son estrictamente an&aacute;logos a los derechos y deberes de los ciudadanos de carne y hueso. La ciudadan&iacute;a corporativa implica un conjunto de poderes y privilegios excepcionales que se combinan para producir el <em>homo supra</em>, un &ldquo;supersoberano&rdquo; paradigm&aacute;tico que es empoderado con amparos y derechos soberanos que exceden con mucho aqu&eacute;llos que un ciudadano normal podr&iacute;a esperar. As&iacute;, el art&iacute;culo muestra c&oacute;mo el proceso de asignar la ciudadan&iacute;a corporativa se ha convertido en un mecanismo por el cual se garantizan relaciones desiguales de poder.</p><p>Available from: <a href="https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-0937" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-0937</a></p> ER -