Engendering the company: Corporate personhood and the “face” of an oil company in metropolitan Buenos Aires

Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 26-46

  Shever, Elana ^a  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Argentina; Corporations; Environmental justice; Gender; Personhood; Pollution

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953146882     PISSN: 10816976     EISSN: 15552934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1555-2934.2010.01091.x     Document Type: Article

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