" This is a Montreal Issue": Negotiating responsibility in global production and investment networks

Geoforum

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 451-461

  Quastel, Noah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anti mining activism; Bauxite; Business and human rights; Corporate social responsibility; Foreign direct investment; Free prior informed consent; Geographies of responsibility; Global production networks; North South solidarity; Orissa

Indexed keywords

BAUXITE; CIVIL SOCIETY; CORPORATE STRATEGY; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; HUMAN RIGHTS; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; MINING INDUSTRY; NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS; SUSTAINABILITY;

CANADA; MONTREAL; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 79959855085     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.03.012     Document Type: Article

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