Reframing Corporate Subjectivity: Systemic Inequality and the Company at the Intersection of Race, Gender and Poverty

Abstract In this paper I use South Africa as a reference point to discuss the company juristic person and its relationship natural persons through concepts of subjectivity personhood. do in an attempt reveal that granting personality ‘the company’ is not neutral, organic or inevitable product law economy but construct symbiotically bound colonial state. Underlying personhood ideology which perpetuates racialized gendered poverty inequality systemic oppression, order deliberately facilitate maintain conditions domination exploitation. Rather than taking conventional business human rights starting accepts corporate structure without critique, it argued by reorienting away from purportedly ‘neutral’ reframing construct, powers might be curtailed, thereby interrupting these continuing logics.