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Special Issue - Dissensus! Radical Democracy and Business Ethics
In an era of prolonged financial crisis, political instability and worldwide injustice, the economic and ethical legitimacy of corporate power requires continued challenge. Whether it be tax evasion, law breaking, political lobbying or outright corruption, too many corporations are content to flout notions of justice, equality and freedom in an escalating pursuit of profit. Liberal democracy promises opportunity and inclusion, yet democratic states are complicit in strengthening the power of the corporations they glorify as wealth creators and job securers. This special issue sets out to investigate and challenge this state of affairs by exploring business ethics as it relates to ‘radical democracy’. In contrast to an enforced liberal consensus, radical democracy relies on dissensus manifest in the radical questioning and subversion of the totalizing tendencies of power. The papers in the special issue consider radical democracy and business ethics, empirically and theoretically, in relation to corporate whistle blowing, environmental sustainability, multi-stakeholder governance, performance management, social entrepreneurship, social movements and corporate marketing.
Table of Contents
Dissensus! Radical Democracy and Business Ethics Carl Rhodes, Iain Munro, Torkild Thanem & Alison Pullen
The Virtues of Equality and Dissensus: MacIntyre in a Dialogue with Rancière and Mouffe Robert Couch & Caleb Bernacchio
How to Whistle-Blow: Dissensus and Demand Kate Kenny& Alexis Bushnell
The Peasant Way of a More than Radical Democracy: The Case of La Via Campesina Sophie von Redecker & Christian Herzig
Denaturalizing the Environment: Dissensus and the Possibility of Radically Democratizing Discourses of Environmental Sustainability Charles Barthold & Peter Bloom
Dissent in Consensusland: An Agonistic Problematization of Multi-stakeholder Governance Martin Fougère & Nikodemus Solitander
Managerial Appropriations of the Ethos of Democratic Practice: Rating, ‘Policing’, and Performance Management Kostas Amiridis & Bogdan Costea
Peer Collaboration as a Relational Practice: Theorizing Affective Oscillation in Radical Democratic Organizing Bernhard Resch & Chris Steyaert
‘Our Marketing is Our Goodness’: Earnest Marketing in Dissenting Organizations Jerzy Kociatkiewicz & Monika Kostera
Envisioning a Democratic Culture of Difference: Feminist Ethics and the Politics of Dissent in Social Movements Sheena J. Vachhani
Editors
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Carl Rhodes
University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123, Ultimo, 2007, Australia
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Torkild Thanem
Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
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Alison Pullen
Macquarie University, Balaclava Rd, Macquarie Park, NSW, 2109, Australia
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Iain Munro
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
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Carl Rhodes
University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123, Ultimo, 2007, Australia
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Torkild Thanem
Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
