Corporate Hegemony through Sustainability : A Study of Sustainability Standards and CSR Practices as Tools to Demobilise Community Resistance in the A

What does the implementation of sustainability standards and CSR practices do to power relationships at the local level? In this study I take an autoethnographic approach and focus on my previous employer, the oil company Bankers Petroleum Ltd (Bankers) and their operations in Patos-Marinza, an area in south-central Albania where oil extraction facilities and residences lie close to one another. Through the lens of Political Discourse Theory, I examine three grievances raised by Patos-Marinza re