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Show 171 entirely comprised of industrial employees. In other instances, the relations between corporation and community is best characterized as colonial in nature, where corporate actors colonize foreign lands for their resources through plunder and toil only to leave the area fractured, decrepit, and alienated from the rewards of their labor when the abundance of resources expires. Regardless of how corporate social responsibility is established, corporate subjects nonetheless establish some kind of subjectivity on the communal level, allowing the rhetorical cartographer to follow these relations from country to city on a global scale. This is precisely what this chapter is all about. To be more specific, this chapter is concerned with how natural resource corporations, specifically Rio Tinto Kennecott, use the city to control the image of their industrial accomplishments in the country - at what we might call heterotopic nonplaces such as mines, oil fields, and toxic wastelands. In doing so, this chapter analyzes how Rio Tinto Kennecott, an exemplar of the communal corporate subject, imbues its networked identity at places of corporate community. Places of corporate community are places where corporate subjects embed their identity into the stone to associate its name with the structures of feeling that occur within its rhetorical territory. To understand how places of corporate community secure corporate identity within local communities, this chapter narrows in on a case study about the Bingham Canyon Mine in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The Country, The City, and the Communal Corporate Subject In Salt Lake City, one can observe our entire world of country and city. In this city, international mining giant Rio Tinto is a rhetorical citizen-subject because it has forcefully imbued its corporate identity within the community to become not only a |
