Full Description
This book presents a socio-criminological study of environmental crime in the global South. It gathers contributors from all the regions of the geographical global South (Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Latin America) to discuss instances of environmental crime and conflict. Overall, it seeks to further decolonise the knowledge production of green criminology. It considers the legacy of colonisation, North-South and the core-periphery divides in the production of environmental crime, the epistemological contributions of the marginalised, impoverished, and oppressed, and the unique contexts of the global South. This book has three sections: drivers of green crime in the global South; responses to environmental harm in the global South; and global dialogues about crime and destruction in the global South. The first two sections represent the breadth of the topics that green criminologists have historically studied but from unique perspectives. The third section explores ethical anddecolonial ways for Southern green criminology to collaborate with Western academia. This book speaks to scholars in criminology, political ecology, decolonial theory, along with the many readers interested in the interactions between humans and nature.
Contents
1. Southern green criminology: Fundamental concepts.- Part I. Drivers of green crime in the global South.- 2. The state-corporate crime of extractive industries.- 3. Mass extraction and green crime victimization in Turkey.- 4. Environmental exploitation and violence against Indigenous people in Mexico .- 5. Appropriating the commons: Tea estates and conflict over water in southern Malawi.- 6. Political Economy and the Government Attack on Sharks - a non-speciesist Southern green criminology.- Part II. Responses to environmental crime in the global South.- 7. Green Potential in the Global South: The Phulbari Movement in neoliberal Bangladesh.- 8. Latin American green Criminology and the limits of restorative justice: An analysis of the Samarco case.- 9. Beyond retributive justice: Listening to environmental victims' demands in Brazil.- 10. Pop culture as environmental education in Japan: The case of Hayao Miyazak's Kaze-no-tani-no-Naushika.- Part III. Global dialogues about crime and destruction in the South.- 11. Revisiting Rosa: Eco-bio-genocide, drug wars, and Southern green criminology.- 12. Colonialism, Knowledge, and the White Man's Burden.
