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Green Crime in the Global South

Essays on Southern Green Criminology

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  • © 2023

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Editors:
  1. David R. Goyes

    1. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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  • Gathers a diversity of thinkers from the global South
  • Presents an overview of environmental crime affecting the ecosystems, humans and animals inhabiting the global South
  • Explores the degradation of the global South's natural environments to satisfy the desires of the global North

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology (PSGC)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Southern Green Criminology: Fundamental Concepts

    • David R. Goyes
    Pages 1-30

  3. Drivers of Green Crime in the Global South

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. The State-Corporate Crime of Extractive Industries

      • María Laura Böhm
      Pages 33-67

    3. Mass Extraction and Green Crime Victimization in Turkey

      • Halil Ibrahim Bahar
      Pages 69-90

    4. Environmental Exploitation and Violence Against Indigenous People in Mexico

      • Gabriela Gallegos Martínez, José Luis Carpio Domínguez, Jesús Ignacio Castro Salazar
      Pages 91-120

    5. Appropriating the Commons: Tea Estates and Conflict Over Water in Southern Malawi

      • Dave Mankhokwe Namusanya
      Pages 121-139

    6. Political Economy and the Government Attack on Sharks: A Non-Speciesist Southern Green Criminology

      • Reece Walters, Amy Couper
      Pages 141-162

  4. Responses to Environmental Crime in the Global South

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Green Potential in the Global South: The Phulbari Movement in Neoliberal Bangladesh

      • Nikhil Deb, Avijit Chakrabarty Ayon
      Pages 165-182

    3. Latin American Green Criminology and the Limits of Restorative Justice: An Analysis of the Samarco Case

      • Cristina Rego de Oliveira, Daniela Arantes Prata, Bruna dos Santos L. da Silva
      Pages 183-209

    4. Beyond Retributive Justice: Listening to Environmental Victims’ Demands in Brazil

      • Marília de Nardin Budó, Karine Ágatha França, Lorenzo Natali
      Pages 211-241

    5. Pop Culture as Environmental Education in Japan: The Case of Hayao Miyazaki’s Kaze-no-tani-no-Naushika

      • Orika Komatsubara
      Pages 243-260

  5. Global Dialogues About Crime and Destruction in the South

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261
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    2. Revisiting Rosa: Eco-Bio-Genocide, Drug Wars, and Southern Green Criminology

      • Nigel South
      Pages 263-284

    3. Colonialism, Knowledge, and the White Man’s Burden

      • Rob White
      Pages 285-313

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 315-323
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About this book

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.  








Reviews

“Colonialism, since its beginning, has committed horrible genocides. The international decolonial movement, much to the discomfort of colonial powers, insists on obtaining redress. And Southern green criminology shines a new light on crimes that were only tangentially considered before: green colonial crimes. This book offers a global overview of this type of criminality, which is no less startling than the genocides. Genocide and ecocide are not independent either - they usually interlock. The paradox, however, is that punitive power is functional in the commission of both. In this book, the reader will understand the origins of this paradox by looking at the roots and trajectories of colonial ecocide around the world. Readers will likely get anxious reading this book – but the responsibility does not lie in the book but in the facts.” (Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni, Former judge of the Interamerican Court of Human Rights)

 

“Many of us who write about corporate and state crime are neglectful of the legacies of colonialism. Green Crime in the Global South is a fine collection, edited by Colombian scholar David R. Goyes, that corrects this neglect. Overwhelmingly written by scholars from the Global South, this beautifully integrated book takes Green Criminology to a new place with a searing emphasis on state corporate crime. It weaves together thoughtful plurality in perspectives from all corners of the planet. Goyes has curated a splendid conversation for the planet that positions Southern Green Criminology to transcend colonial legacies.” (John Braithwaite, Australian National University and University of Maryland, USA)

 

“Those who seek justice, equality and freedom are not voiceless. They are not powerless. Their agency, power and voice have been selectively and skilfully tuned out by the systems that thrive on their oppression. Colonialism and extractivism have continued to inform the experiences ofpeople and the impacts on the environment of countries in the global South. The skewed power relations between the global North and the global South have contributed to the ongoing devastation of the environment without accountability, recourse and environmental reparations for global South nations. The essays in this book are therefore a timely contribution to these and related issues. They offer a critical reflection that not only enriches the discourse but is an amplification of our voices on the demands for change and justice.” (Busisiwe Kamolane-Kgadima, Attorney & Activist, Johannesburg, South Africa)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    David R. Goyes

About the editor

David R. Goyes is a researcher in the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway. He is a pioneer of green criminology in Latin America, first proposing it in 2012, and in 2019 he published Southern Green Criminology.   

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