Corporate reporting on conflict: A struggle over land

• The paper draws attention to corporate use of discourse physical conflict for the legitimisation violence. suggests that can be used create inequality. over land is rooted in colonial legacies. language reports lend support post-colonial ideologies. This explores how as a strategic resource boundary work confront between large scale mining companies and artisanal small-scale miners legitimacy management. research process involves relying on case study reporting by AngloGold Ashanti interviews with mainly managers working large-scale Ghana. positioned within context which enables us explain legacies Ghana have created conditions generate miners. utilises theory discourse, work, legitimacy. First, this opposed legal creation distinction violence against reporting. Second, Specifically, it post-colonialism thrive contributing erasure historical rights indigenes ownership. It also conceals negatives consequences State adoption benefit companies. Third,