Racial and Colonial Dimensions of Corporate Harm: Will There be Justice?

by Marília de Nardin Budó

Overview

This powerful book reveals how the asbestos industry, entangled in state and corporate power, silences victims and denies harm, encouraging a rethinking of justice from a Global South perspective.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529230956
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	08/01/2026
Series:	Studies in Social Harm
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marília de Nardin Budó is Assistant Professor at the University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Temporalities and Territorialities of the Asbestos Industry

2. One Hundred Years of Denial: Magic Realism of Modernity in Brazilian Internal Colonialism

3. Two Colonial Male-Dictions in Brazilian Asbestos Mining

4. A New Gentlemen’s Agreement

5. The Old Lady and the Billionaire

6. Beyond Victims and Perpetrators, for Another Justice

Conclusion