This conference examines how different business groups and associations from different world regions, political cultures, economic sectors, and with different sizes of capital have engaged with, supported or undermined concrete responsibility for human rights violations and ecological degradation, since the rise of neoliberalism in the 1970s.
While providing critical analysis of transnational corporations’ extractivist behaviours, we also aim to identify alternative forms of economic production with less devastating consequences for humans, non-humans and the nature: from traditional business cooperatives (regrouped, for instance, in the International Cooperative Alliance), to digital platform cooperatives challenging the growth imperative models of Big Tech corporations, to small ecological businesses and Indigenous associative projects.
Full programme here.
To register for the event, please write at corpaccount@politice.ro by 10.03.2025 at the latest.
The workshop is part of the ERC-Consolidator project Transnational Advocacy Networks and Corporate Accountability for Major International Crimes. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 101002993 — CORPACCOUNT). The project is hosted by the National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest.
