Rights in a State Of Exception. The Deadly Colonial Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights

Lara Montesinos Coleman

doi:10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-0973

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Lara Montesinos Coleman University of Sussex

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https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-0973

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responsabilidad empresarial, derechos humanos, impunidad

Resumen

La responsabilidad social corporativa (RSC) ha sido acusada de ser una mera fachada. Aduzco aquí que es peor aún: refuerza activamente la impunidad empresarial, ya que rinde ininteligible la violencia del desarrollo y tilda toda resistencia de irracional o subversiva. Se alimenta de un estado de excepción que proporciona un contexto propicio a las violaciones de derechos humanos (DDHH). Regreso al origen de la responsabilidad corporativa respecto a los DDHH –los campos petrolíferos colombianos de BP–, para combinar la investigación etnográfica con una crítica a la mitología colonial que da forma al debate sobre empresas y DDHH. La ONU ha reconocido que la RSC voluntaria puede ocultar los abusos, subrayando la importancia del recurso judicial cuando las medidas voluntarias no alcanzan. No obstante, este artículo subraya que las medidas voluntarias y jurídicas pueden servir distintos fines.

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