- Title
- Antenarrative and transnational labour rights activism: making sense of complexity and ambiguity in the interaction between global social movements and global corporations
- Creator
- Connor, Tim; Phelan, Liam
- Relation
- Globalizations Vol. 12, Issue 2, p. 149-163
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2013.814458
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- This paper draws on antenarrative research and writing techniques to analyse the long-running transnational campaign seeking to improve respect for human rights in the supply chains of Nike and other major sportswear companies. The antenarrative approach challenges scholars to look beyond pre-existing expectations, both in terms of which actors and processes are likely to be most influential and in terms of what is motivating participation in those processes which are significant. In this paper we construct antenarrative accounts of two aspects of the Nike campaign and counterpoint each of our antenarratives with an established scholarly account based on more traditional narrative approaches. We conclude antenarrative analysis can provide useful insights into interaction between global activist networks and global corporations, particularly by drawing attention to the generative possibilities of the complex combination of ordered and disordered processes which often characterise that interaction.
- Subject
- corporate regulation; corporate social responsibility; global social movements; human rights; labour rights; sweatshops; transnational advocacy networks
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1060054
- Identifier
- uon:16736
- Identifier
- ISSN:1474-7731
- Rights
- This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Globalizations on 12/07/13, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2013.814458
- Language
- eng
- Full Text
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