Full Description
This timely book presents a carefully curated selection of essays to celebrate the career of Nigel South, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Sociology and Criminology of the University of Essex, and one of the leading figures in his field.
Through his long career, still ongoing and flourishing, Nigel has contributed knowledge in many areas of criminological scholarship and challenged the confines of the discipline, opening up new directions for thinking and debate. In this volume, Nigel's close colleagues and friends celebrate his exceptional career through essays that draw on, or have been inspired by, his earlier or most recent work. Spanning across the areas of policing, drugs, green, southern, and sensory criminology, these essays offer cutting-edge research and fresh conceptual insights honouring the work of an outstanding criminologist, colleague, friend, and human being.
This volume will be of pivotal interest to students, scholars, and academics in the fields of sociology and criminology, as well as those with an interest in these areas more generally.
Contents
Introduction: Celebrating the Career of Nigel South. 1. Policing for Profit: Nigel's Contribution to the Study of Private Policing and Security. 2. Drug Use Normalization and Surrealism. 3. Doing Drug Market Research Critically Through a Lens of Assumed Differentiation: 'Seeing' the 'Invisible'. 4. Unveiling Socio-economic Parallels: Exploring the Blurred Boundary Between Legality and Illegality. 5. Ecocidal Tendencies of Late Capitalism. 6. Food Politics and Controversial Technologies. 7. Criminology's Animal Turn. 8. Anthropocentrism, Speciesism and Speciecide. 9. Empathy Without Borders: Decolonial Criminology, Western Scholars, and Peer Methodology. 10. Scarcity, Conflict and Environmental Crime. 11. Ecologically Induced Genocide: A New Synthesis. 12. Conveying Environmental Harms Through Music: Some Directions for Green-cultural Criminology. 13. 'Life-stage Dissolution' ('adultification' and 'Infantilization') and the Right to Repair: Implications for Fixing this World. 14. This Feels Bad: Climate Change, Affect, and Sensory Criminology. 15. Grave Matters: Ghost Criminology, Necropolitics and the Anthropocene. Afterword: Connections, Directions, Horizons: Afterthoughts and Thank Yous.
