Description
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.
Seeking Justice explores when and why victims of corporate human rights abuse have access to remedy mechanisms.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
'... 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
Book Information
ISBN 9781009293259
Author Tricia D. Olsen
Format Paperback
Page Count 291
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 430g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 15mm
Seeking Justice explores when and why victims of corporate human rights abuse have access to remedy mechanisms.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
'... 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
Book Information
ISBN 9781009293259
Author Tricia D. Olsen
Format Paperback
Page Count 291
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 430g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 15mm
