Legitimizing Corporate Harm - The Discourse of Contemporary Agribusiness

This book utilizes critical discourse analysis to illuminate the ways in which one of the largest agribusinesses in operation, Tyson Foods, disguises their actions whilst simultaneously presenting the image of a benign, good corporate citizen. Schally unveils how the discourses employed by Tyson gain legitimacy by drawing on and aligning with larger cultural discourses that are often taken for granted and not adequately scrutinised. This original research, situated at the intersection of green and cultural criminologies, contributes to these current perspectives as well as to the burgeoning social harm approach within criminology.
A bold and engaging study, this book will be indispensable for students and scholars of green criminology, corporate crime, animals and society, and environmental sociology, as well as environmental and animal rights activists.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Industrial Agriculture and its Harms.- Chapter 3. The Nature of Tyson's Harms.- Chapter 4. Contextualizing the 'Socially Responsible' Corporation and the Cultural Legitimation of Harm.- Chapter 5. Disguising Harms: Talking and Not Talking About It.- Chapter 6. Being Good - or at Least Not Bad.- Chapter 7. Taking Stock, Taking Action.- Appendix: Research Methods or How I Digested What Tyson Was Serving Up.

Summary

Uniquely targets animal and environmental harm caused by the industrial food system
Sheds light on the role of language and other symbols in the perpetuation of harm to non-human life
Highlights the failure of industrial agriculture to protect animals

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer L Schally, Jennifer L. Schally
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319885025
• ISBN: 978-3-31-988502-5
• No. of pages: 97
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 6 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 162 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 97 p.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; C, Unternehmensethik und soziale Verantwortung, CSR, Umwelt-, Transport- und Planungsrecht, Environmental Policy, Wirtschaftskriminalität & Managerkriminalität, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business ethics & social responsibility, Environmentalist thought & ideology, white collar crime, Law and Criminology, Environmental law, Business Ethics, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Corporate crime, Crime & criminology, Social responsibility of business, Critical criminology, Crime—Sociological aspects, Crime and Society, Environment law, Commercial crimes