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Book SynopsisIntroduction: Re-Envisioning Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses. Civil Society and Transnational Action.- Part I: Corporate Accountability: A Fragmented Global Cause?.- “A World Where There Are Many Worlds.” Fragmentation of Civil Society Advocacy for a UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights.- Transnational Advocacy Networks and Corporate Accountability: Visions, Divisions, and Convergences of a Global Cause.- Corporate Accountability and the Ecological Turn: Mining Lessons from the Rights of Nature Movement.- Values and Limitations of Transnational Activism for Corporate Accountability in post-Civil War Guatemala.- Part II: Transnational Campaigns Against Corporate Impunity.- The Transnationalisation of Civil Society in East Asia’s War Redress Movement.- Trade Unions and Corporate Accountability in Argentina: Transnational and Intersectoral Alliances.- Social Mobilisations and Corporate Accountability in Brazil: The Volkswagen Case and the Limits of Legal Settlements.- Structural Constraints and Civil Society Mobilisations for Corporate Accountability and the East African Community.- Luxembourgish Civil Society Mobilising for Corporate Accountability: Prospects and Challenges for Law Making From Below?.- Strategic Litigation for Corporate Accountability Through (International) Criminal Law. Dutch Legal Dynamics and Litigating Civil Society Organisations.- Part III: Promises and Limitations of Grassroot Activism.- Polenta and Cyanide? Investment Arbitration as Prospective Environmental Injustice in Ro?ia Montana.- From the International Boomerang to the “Domestic Boomerang”: Advocating for Corporate Accountability for Past Human Rights Abuses in Argentina.- Forced Labour in Spain under Franco’s Rule: Public Debates over Corporate Accountability in the Twenty-First Century.
