Pervasive Powers. The Politics of Corporate Authority. Introduction

Sara Angeli Aguiton (), Marc-Olivier Déplaude (), Nathalie Jas (), Emmanuel Henry () and Valentin Thomas ()
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Sara Angeli Aguiton: CAK-CRHST - Centre Alexandre Koyré - Centre de Recherche en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques - MNHN - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Marc-Olivier Déplaude: IRISSO - Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement
Nathalie Jas: IRISSO - Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement
Emmanuel Henry: IRISSO - Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement
Valentin Thomas: TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - IEP Lyon - Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: One specific aim of this book is to highlight the pervasive powers of corporations, which by virtue of their methods and magnitude, possess an unprecedented capacity to transform and shape the social and physical world. The concept of "pervasive powers" relates to the idea of diffuse and generalized powers with both macro and micro dimensions. These economic actors contribute to the production of world views, major decisions, legislations and teleological discourses, while at the same time remaining active at the local scale, contributing to technical standards, implementation methods, etc. These pervasive powers are consequently exercised in a very wide variety of places such as regulatory arenas, the courts, or influential professional circles. Multiple smaller or less considered social spaces also serve as pervasive dissemination interfaces for these powers without necessarily being immediately perceptible. Yet these powers are never established for all eternity. On the contrary, they require intensive and continuous work by companies and their intermediaries.

Keywords: Corporations and democracy; Power; Science and technology; Regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Published in Aguiton, Sara Angeli; Déplaude, Marc-Olivier; Jas, Nathalie; Henry, Emmanuel; Thomas, Valentin. Pervasive Powers. The Politics of Corporate Authority, Routledge, pp.1-8, 2021, 9781003053873. ⟨10.4324/9781003053873-1⟩

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