Call for Papers Controversia Magazine No. 225:
Rights for whom: environmental justice and popular resistance to corporate power?
In a global context marked by the expansion of industrial and extractive megaprojects, the interrelationship between companies, communities and the state has become crucially important for the analysis of human rights, environmental justice and the struggle against corporate impunity. The boundaries between economic development and respect for human and environmental rights are increasingly blurred, and corporate power is consolidating its strategies to influence and, in many cases, determine the configuration of public policies, the dynamics of territories and limit access to justice for communities that are victims of its business activity.
With the increase in extractive and industrial megaprojects, the interrelationship between companies, the state and communities has generated contexts of tension and conflict in which the rights of local communities are threatened or directly violated. In this context, environmental justice and popular resistance have emerged as fundamental pillars to counteract the abuses of power and impunity that accompany these extractive projects. Given these realities, there is a need to strengthen regulatory frameworks and implement effective justice mechanisms to ensure that companies respect human and environmental rights in all the territories where they operate, and that they are held accountable for serious human rights violations already committed.
This edition of Controversia Magazine invites you to critically explore the multiple aspects of the relationship between business and human rights, as well as the impact of corporate power structures on communities, the environment and the State in Colombia and Latin America. The issue seeks to make visible experiences of resistance, denounce the gaps and limitations of current regulatory frameworks, and promote the analysis of mechanisms that enable access to justice for affected communities, as well as scenarios of corporate impunity and proposals for community and worker reparations for victims of companies.
Among the thematic lines of this edition, the following stand out:
- Human rights violations by companies.
- Proposals for comprehensive reparation derived from corporate abuses.
- Corporate capture of the state.
- Financial sector responsibility and value and supply chains.
- Social movements and resistance to corporate action.
- Transnational corporations' claims against states and investment treaties.
Guest editors:
María Carolina Matiz González and Jenny Paola Ortiz Fonseca.
Researchers of the Interculturality Line
Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular/Programa para la paz (Cinep-PPP)
Opening: 15 November 2024
Deadline: 15 February 2025
Publication of issue: second half of 2025.
Submission of contributions
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