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Andre Spicer
Cass Business School

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  • Infra-political dimensions of resistance to international business
    Organisation and Leadership
    Any Industry

    International business has been a contested terrain ever since the Europeans set their feet on the American continent, unleashing a long and violent history of colonialism and anti-colonial struggle.

    While protests against the WTO, IMF, World Bank and the so called 'Washington Consensus' more generally do not necessarily implicate particular multinational companies directly, they are part of a wider discursive assault on an emerging global order that is seen to be dominated by global business interests.This paper contributes to critical understandings of how international business is resisted.

    02/05/2012 | 426
  • Hail the snail: hegemonic struggles in the Slow Food movement
    Organisation and Leadership
    Consumer and Retail

    Since the early 1990s, many commentators have argued that the dominance of malbouffe (bad food) has a variety of negative consequences.

    For some time, researchers have puzzled over how new fields of food movement are created. The research in this paper focuses on the argument that new fields are created by social movements engaging in hegemonic struggles and which develop social movement strategies, articulate discourses and construct nodal points.

    24/04/2012 | 835