Sustainability standards and certification

Looking through the lens of Foucault'sdispositif

Bibliographic Data

ID4263126
AuthorsLaura Silva‐castañeda (Université Paris‐Est LISIS, IFRIS F 77454 Marne‐La‐Vallée France, corresponding author), Nathalie Trussart (independent scholar, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume16
Issue4
Pages490-510
Publication date2016-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/glob.12139
OpenAlexW2516993353
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited30

Over the past few decades, sustainability standards and certification have come to play an important role in the global governance of production and trade. Their purpose is to address the environmental and social problems generated by the globalization of the economy. Yet, as scholars and actors alike have pointed out, framing these problems in terms of technical criteria and procedures might result in rendering some issues invisible and closing potential debate and contestation. Through the empirical analysis of a multi-stakeholder initiative called the 'Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil', our aim is to explore how civil society organizations and advocacy networks nevertheless draw new lines of power by using, putting to the test, correcting and constructing formalized knowledge. To shed light on these processes of resistance, we advance an analytic that restores the concept ofdispositifcoined by Michel Foucault in emphasizing both the disruptive and stabilizing lines that compose adispositif

Business · Certification · Corporate governance · Economics · Engineering ethics · Globalization · Management · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Sustainability · Engineering · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Regulation and Compliance Studies

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