Legitimizing Corporate Harm The Discourse of Contemporary Agribusiness /

• Main Author: Schally, Jennifer L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology
• Subjects: Critical criminology.; Crime-Sociological aspects.; Commercial crimes.; Social responsibility of business.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Critical Criminology.; Crime and Society.; Corporate Crime.; Corporate Social Responsibility.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.

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 gai...

Table 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.