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1. Africa's global infrastructures : South-South transformations in practice
abstractThe boom in South–South relations since the early 2000s has seen a flurry of investment in African infrastructure from emerging markets across the Global South. While the extent to which these projects spur growth is constantly debated, few studies have addressed their impact on ground-level political and socio-economic practices in Africa—or their consequences for transnational governance more broadly. Through the lens of infrastructure, this book investigates the developmental ideas, processes and techniques that have travelled to and emerged from Africa as a result of Global South–led projects. How have they been adapted, transformed and contested by local actors? How does this shape business–society relations? And how has this challenged the Western-dominated global order? The contributors zoom in on large-scale Chinese-, Brazilian- and Indian-funded ventures—dams, ports, roads and mines—across countries including Kenya, Mozambique and the DRC. These ‘frontier zones’, bringing together politicians and practitioners, campaign groups and communities from Africa and elsewhere, offer a unique insight into the global workings of our contemporary world. Taking a bottom-up approach, Africa’s Global Infrastructures explores the longer-term significance and implications of these pluralistic socio-economic interactions, for the continent and beyond.
Hönke, Jana; Cezne, Eric; Yang, Yifan;2024
Type: Aufsatzsammlung; Beiträge
2. The multiple meanings and uses of South-South relations in extraction : the Brazilian mining company Vale in Mozambique
Cezne, Eric; Hönke, Jana;2022
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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Citations: 6 (based on OpenCitations)
3. Transnational companies and security governance : hybrid practices in a postcolonial world
abstract1. Introduction -- 2. Engaging hybrid security governance -- 3. Transnationalised business spaces in a postcolonial world -- 4. Practicing hybrid security: multinational companies and hybrid security practices, post-1995 -- 5. Understanding hybrid security practices: transnational meaning systems, post-1995 -- 6. Companies, security governance and change : practicing transnational meaning systems, 1890s-1920s -- 7. Conclusion.
Hoenke, Jana.;2013
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4. Does it really take the state?
Börzel, Tanja; Hönke, Jana; Thauer, Christian R.;2012
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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Citations: 27 (based on OpenCitations)
5. Does it really take the state?
Börzel, Tanja A.; Hönke, Jana; Thauer, Christian R.;2012
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Citations: 27 (based on OpenCitations)
6. Review: Katja Werthmann, Bitteres Gold: Bergbau, Land und Geld in Westafrika (2009)
Hönke, Jana;2011
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7. From Compliance to Practice : Mining Companies and the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo
abstractTransnational institutions, such as the Global Compact and the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs), commit multinational companies to human rights and social standards on a voluntary basis. The governance literature has identified a credible ‘shadow of hierarchy' cast by a central authority as a major precondition for companies to comply with their voluntary commitments. Transnational institutions not only lack enforcement capacities. The local production sites of MNCs are often hosted by states, which only loosely adhere to global rights themselves and are neither willing nor capable of making non-state actors comply with them. Home states have been reluctant to foster binding regulation for the human rights behaviour of ‘their' companies abroad.Our paper investigates the security practices of MNCs and their (non)compliance with voluntary standards. We analyse whether MNCs still honour their commitment to transnational voluntary programs in areas of limited statehood, such as the VPs in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Combining insights from the literature on compliance, (private) governance, postcolonial states and security/policing studies, we develop a conceptual framework which complements ‘top-down approaches' dominating the literature on voluntary programs, business and governance with a ‘bottom-up perspective' that puts the entire range of companies' local security practices centre stage. This allows to evaluate corporate security practices beyond the implementation of formal programs (output) focusing on rule-consistent behaviour (outcome) by not only looking for behavioural changes that can be attributed to voluntary programs but also for governance practices that may undermine or even conflict with the requirements of the VPs. An explorative case study on two multinational mining companies in the DRC demonstrates that our integrated, more comprehensive approach paints a more nuanced picture when it comes to corporate compliance with transnational voluntary programs and the evaluation of corporate security practices more generally than much of the literature on business and governance in areas of limited statehood
Börzel, Tanja; Hoenke, Jana;2010
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8. Fostering environmental regulation? : corporate social responsibility in countries with weak regulatory capacities ; the case of South Africa
Hönke, Jana; Kranz, Nicole; Börzel, Tanja; Windhoff-Héritier, Adrienne;2008
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
9. Fragile Staatlichkeit und der Wandel der Afrikapolitik nach 1990
Hönke, Jana;2005
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
10. Does it really take the state?
Börzel Tanja A.; Jana, Hönke; Thauer Christian R.;2012
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