1st Edition

Pervasive Powers The Politics of Corporate Authority

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

In an era of systemic crisis and of global critiques of the unsustainable perpetuation of capitalism, Pervasive Powers: The Politics of Corporate Authority critically questions the conditions for the maintenance and expansion of corporate power. The book explores empirical case studies in the realms of finance, urban policies, automobile safety, environmental risk, agriculture, and food in... Read more

1. The Pervasiveness of Corporate Authority: Repertoire of Actions, Material Effects, and Democratic Challenges

Sara Angeli Aguiton, Marc-Olivier Déplaude, Nathalie Jas, Emmanuel Henry, and Valentin Thomas 

2. The Making of the Spanish Pesticide Industry During the Early Francoist Dictatorship: Experts, Autarky, Agnotology, and Fascism

José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez 

3. Corporate Systemic Ascendancy. Perspectives from the Pesticides Industry in Post-War France

Nathalie Jas 

4. From Research Funding to Public Relations: The Making of a Food Industry Think Tank in 1970s France

Thomas Depecker, Marc-Olivier Déplaude, and Nicolas Larchet 

5. From Public Problem to Quiet Politics? How U.S. Automobile Insurers Mobilized for Regulation of the Industry (1959-1974) 

Stève Bernardin 

6. Co-Producing the Rules of the Game: State, Insurance Companies and Private Equity in 1990s France 

Marlène Benquet, Paul Lagneau Ymonet, and Fabien Foureault 

7. Transnational Professional Service Firms and the Corporatization of Infrastructure Procurement 

Chris Hurl and Anne Vogelpohl

Biography

Sara A. Aguiton is a Sociologist and STS scholar. She is a Permanent Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, France.

Marc-Olivier Déplaude is an Advanced Researcher in Sociology at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, France.

Nathalie Jas is an Advanced Researcher in History and STS at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, France.

Emmanuel Henry is a Professor of Sociology at the Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL University, France.

Valentin Thomas is a postdoctoral researcher at Sciences Po Lyon, France.