Spatial imagery in extractive capitalism: form and strength in corporate social responsibility diagrams

Authors

  • Henri Acselrad Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano e Regional, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
  • Wendell Ficher Teixeira Assis Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Postgraduate Program in Sociology, Maceió, AL, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9711-0884

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22296/2317-1529.rbeur.202226pt

Keywords:

Diagrams, Corporate Social Responsibility, Risk Mapping, Capitalism of Flows, Extractive Industry

Abstract

In the contemporary capitalism of flows, companies that strongly depend on territorial resources adopt social private policies so as to ensure the spatial insertion of their projects. In order to preserve their reputation, they also take part in a dispute for the legitimate representation of social space through the growing use of the visual instrument of diagrams. From among the corporate uses of diagrams, two types will be discussed herein. Whereas “corporate social responsibility” diagrams presuppose a harmonic space of partnership and cooperation, social risk mapping reveals the presence of dissensus and threats to the business climate. The text makes a critical reading of the business management literature and the diagrammatic material that composes it, and discusses diagrams published in the sustainability and corporate social responsibility reports of large corporations in the mineral extractive sector.

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Author Biographies

Henri Acselrad, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano e Regional, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

PhD in Public Economics and Territorial Organization from the Université de Paris I. Professor at the Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano e Regional at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Ippur/UFRJ) and CNPq researcher.

Wendell Ficher Teixeira Assis, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Postgraduate Program in Sociology, Maceió, AL, Brazil

PhD in Urban and Regional Planning at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Ippur/UFRJ).

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Published

2022-10-22

How to Cite

Acselrad, H. ., & Assis, W. F. T. (2022). Spatial imagery in extractive capitalism: form and strength in corporate social responsibility diagrams . Revista Brasileira De Estudos Urbanos E Regionais, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.22296/2317-1529.rbeur.202226pt

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