Business as usual after Marikana : corporate power and human rights

Foreword / Bishop Jo Seoka - 1. Introduction / Britta Becker, Maren Grimm and Jakob Krameritsch - 2. The convergence of corporate and government interests: the unfinished business of the Marikana massacre / Jakob Krameritsch and Maren Grimm - 3. 'Only the stupidest countries stick to the economic boycott': Germany, Switzerland and Austria as profiteers and pillars of the apartheid system / Simon Knapp, Jakob Krameritsch, Barbara Müller and Walter Sauer - 4. Lonmin in context: the political economy of the South African platinum industry: an interview with Gavin Capps - 5. There is no change in Marikana: the perspective of the women / Asanda Benya and Judy Seidman - 6. Confrontations with BASF: additions to the company history and the Plough Back the Fruits campaign / Maren Grimm and Jakob Krameritsch - 7. Are we requesting too much? : speech and the BASF AGM, Mannheim, Germany, 12 May 2017 / Mzoxolo Magidiwana - 8. The theatre of irresponsibility: cynicism and profitability / María do Mar Castro Varela - 9. Hard rocks - soft rules: human rights violations, the destruction of nature and the role of the state and corporations in international mining / Michael Reckordt - 10. Horizons of responsibility / Franziska Dübgen - 11. The limits of voluntary initiatives: how business stands in the way of binding human rights standards / Sarah Lincoln - 12. The UN treaty on business and human right: South Africa's role / Akhona Mehlo - 13. Rather part of the problem than the solution: on the functions and effects of social audits / Carolijn Terwindt - 14. Power and the politics of corporate responsibility on the Platinum Belt: a conversation with Dinah Rajak - 15. The chemistry is right: the corporation and politics / Jan Pehrke - 16. Corporate structures and tax avoidance by BASF: the platinum perspective / Christoph Trautvetter - 17. From BASF to Volkswagen and the World Bank: German fingerprints at the scene of Lonmin's Marikana massacre / Patrick Bond - 18. Imperialist raw materials strategies in EU politics / Boniface Mabanza - 19. Discourse (as) opposed to the facts: Germany's links to the Marikana massacre have long gone unnoticed / Stefan Buchen - 20. Bared life: colonial and neo-colonial depictions of South African miners in the public imagination / Rosemary Lombard - 21. Postcolonial internationalism: thoughts on redefining global North-South solidarity in the twenty-first century / Alexander Behr and Trevor Ngwane - 22. 'The right to have rights': global social rights as a tool against the power of transnational corporations and capitalist exploitation / Boris Kanzleiter and Britta Becker - 23. The real issues: politics against 'not wanting to know' / Stephan Lessenich - 24. A better life for all? : speech at the General Assembly, Berlin, 4 November 2017 / Thumeka Magwangqana.