Green Cultural Criminology: Constructions of Environmental Harm, Consumerism, and Resistance to Ecocide

ISBN-13: 9780415630733 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 174 str.

Avi Brisman; Nigel South

Opis

Over the last two decades, "green criminology" has emerged as a unique area of study, bringing together criminologists and sociologists from a wide range of research backgrounds and varying theoretical orientations. It spans the micro to the macro from individual-level environmental crimes and victimization to business/corporate violations and state transgressions. There have been few attempts, however, to explicitly or implicitly integrate cultural criminology into green criminology (or vice versa).

This book moves towards articulating a green cultural criminological perspective. Brisman and South examine existing overlapping research and offer a platform to support future excursions by green criminologists into cultural criminology s concern with media images and representations, consumerism and consumption, and resistance. At the same time, they offer an invitation to cultural criminologists to adopt a green view of the consumption landscape and the growth (and depictions) of environmental harms.

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Green Cultural Criminology" is aimed at students, academics, criminologists, and sociologists with an interest in green criminology and cultural criminology: two of the most exciting new areas in criminology today."

Spis treści

1. Introduction: greening criminology and connecting to the cultural  2. Overview of cultural criminology  3. A green field for cultural criminology  4. Constructions of Environmental Harm  5. Consumption, environment, health and happiness  6. Marketing and consuming nature and the natural: water, quarantine and infantilisation  7. Resistance to Environmental Harm  8. Conclusion and Future Directions.