Green Criminology and Green Theories of Justice: An Introduction to a Political Economic View of Eco-Justice

ISBN-13: 9783030285753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 257 str.

Michael J. Lynch; Michael a. Long; Paul B. Stretesky

Recenzje

"Green Criminology and Green Theories of Justice is an especially useful addition to the growing literature on green criminology. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (P. Beirne, Choice, Vol. 57 (11), 2020)

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction: Green Theories of Justice and Political Economy

Chapter 2: Connecting Ecological Decline and Eco-Justice

Chapter 3: Eco-Justice and an Orientation toward the Ecosystem

Chapter 4: Human Social & Ecological Justice in the Global World: Capitalist System and the Treadmill of Production

Chapter 5: Unsustainable Economic Development and Nonhuman Ecological Justice

Chapter 6: Gaia and a Green Theory of Justice

Chapter 7:  Metabolic Rift and Eco-justice

Chapter 8: Political Economy, Food and Eco-justice

Chapter 9:  Conclusion

O autorze

Michael J. Lynch is Professor in the Department of Criminology and Associated Faculty at The Patel School of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida, USA.

Michael A. Long is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, USA.

Paul B. Stretesky is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK, and Associated Faculty in the Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, USA.

Blurb

This book offers an alternative analysis of the various theories and dimensions of green and environmental justice which are rooted in political economy. Much green criminological literature side-lines political economic theoretical insights, and therefore with this this work the authors enrich the field by vigorously exploring such perspectives. It engages with a number of studies relevant to a political economic approach to justice in order to make two key arguments: that capitalism has produced profound ecological injustices and that the concept of ecological justice (human and ecological rights) itself needs critiquing. Green Criminology and Green Theories of Justice is a timely text which urges the field to revisit its radical roots in social justice while broadening its disciplinary horizons to include a meaningful analysis of political economy and its role in producing and responding to environmental harm and injustice.