Ordinary and Extraordinary Harms in the City : A Green Criminological Analysis (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)

Lundberg, Kajsa

Rutgers University Press（2026/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 190 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781978846579

Full Description

This book, based on original research in Melbourne, Australia, explores the spatial politics of urban expansion both upwards and outwards as the city continues to colonize non-urban areas around its fringes. The everyday decisions and tools bound up in urban growth accelerate a malign colonization of land, resources, air and water, thereby exacerbating a broad variety of social and environmental harms. In addition to the quotidian nature of urban growth, this book also explores the 'crisis' in the form of extreme fire events in urban areas. Moving between local planning and national and international climate change mitigation policies and approaches, this book highlights various 'necropolicies' - policies causing harm and death to more-than-human populations. Such death-bound policies are the result of neoliberal urban development, fueled by state-corporate relations and prosperity concerns. In sum, this book connects green and urban criminology, urban studies and planning to reveal how ordinary and extraordinary challenges are entangled in urban design, harm and, most importantly, imagining alternative futures and cities.

Contents

Contents

List of figures, images, and tables

Foreword

1 Encountering the City

2 Living on the Edge

3 The Expanding Edges

4 Extra-ordinary

5 Necropolicy and Everyday Emergencies

6 My House is Underwater

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index