David R. Goyes

University of Oslo · Department of Criminology and the Sociology of Law

Since the 1970s, the world has witnessed a proliferation of international treaties championing the protection of wildlife. The effectiveness of those treaties, which together comprise international wildlife law (IWL), depends on their national implementation by individual states rather than on their number. National implementation of IWL ranges fro...

Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo documents the story of violence that took place in Medellín in the 1980s and 1990s, and critically examines the position of its victims. Drawing on unique empirical material, the book addresses the consequences, for the victims of mass drug violence and for the present nature of the city, of...

Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo documents the story of violence that took place in Medellín in the 1980s and 1990s, and critically examines the position of its victims. Drawing on unique empirical material, the book addresses the consequences, for the victims of mass drug violence and for the present nature of the city, of...

Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo documents the story of violence that took place in Medellín in the 1980s and 1990s, and critically examines the position of its victims. Drawing on unique empirical material, the book addresses the consequences, for the victims of mass drug violence and for the present nature of the city, of...

Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo documents the story of violence that took place in Medellín in the 1980s and 1990s, and critically examines the position of its victims. Drawing on unique empirical material, the book addresses the consequences, for the victims of mass drug violence and for the present nature of the city, of...

Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo documents the story of violence that took place in Medellín in the 1980s and 1990s, and critically examines the position of its victims. Drawing on unique empirical material, the book addresses the consequences, for the victims of mass drug violence and for the present nature of the city, of...

Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo documents the story of violence that took place in Medellín in the 1980s and 1990s, and critically examines the position of its victims. Drawing on unique empirical material, the book addresses the consequences, for the victims of mass drug violence and for the present nature of the city, of...

Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo documents the story of violence that took place in Medellín in the 1980s and 1990s, and critically examines the position of its victims. Drawing on unique empirical material, the book addresses the consequences, for the victims of mass drug violence and for the present nature of the city, of...

Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo documents the story of violence that took place in Medellín in the 1980s and 1990s, and critically examines the position of its victims. Drawing on unique empirical material, the book addresses the consequences, for the victims of mass drug violence and for the present nature of the city, of...

Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo documents the story of violence that took place in Medellín in the 1980s and 1990s, and critically examines the position of its victims. Drawing on unique empirical material, the book addresses the consequences, for the victims of mass drug violence and for the present nature of the city, of...

The dominance of modern rationality in knowledge production implies that the distribution of intellectual capital highly depends on the capacity to gather representative data and generate generalizable theses. Furthermore, as research becomes more formalized and dominated by large funding schemes, intellectual capital allocation is increasingly ass...

Systematic environmental destruction—associated with (neo)colonialism, coloniality, and imperialism—can be found throughout the global South (Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania). Colonial-led ecological degradation in the global South reveals a strong presence of transnational corporations of the global North perpetrating intellectual and mat...

Music is ubiquitous in contemporary societies, and criminologists are paying increasing attention to it, asserting that it takes antisocial, prosocial and anti-establishment forms regarding criminality. Established approaches provide vital ways to understand the relationship of music and crime, but criminologists have yet to theorise the fluidity o...

This article traces the origins, trajectories, and pathways of Latin American criminology

Storytelling shapes how we understand the world and act in it, including our interactions with nature. For instance, the oral stories Indigenous peoples around the world transmit from generation to generation about the sacred bond between humans and non‐humans in the world establish a respectful relationship with ecosystems. However, we have yet to...

This article traces the trajectory of green criminology in Latin America from the 1960s’ liberation criminology to the current Southern green criminology. The purpose of this genealogical account is twofold: first, it uncovers the evolution of the Latin American criminological engagement with green crime, and second, politically it reclaims the epi...

Worldwide, medical doctors and lawyers cooperate in health justice projects. These professionals pursue the ideal that, one day, every individual on Earth will be equally protected from the hazards that impair health. The main hindrances to health justice are discrimination, poverty and segregation, but we know that beyond concrete, quantifiable ba...

Worldwide, medical doctors and lawyers cooperate in health justice projects. These professionals pursue the ideal that, one day, every individual on Earth will be equally protected from the hazards that impair health. The main hindrances to health justice are discrimination, poverty and segregation, but we know that beyond concrete, quantifiable ba...

Green criminology, environmental crime

Issues related to victimhood are central to transitional justice and international criminal justice. However, processes of transitional justice do not usually include victims of drug-related violence, despite the fact that in several Latin American countries deaths caused by cartel violence easily meet criteria of civil war. This article's central...

Green Criminology in Asia: A Platform for Dialogue Across Disciplines and Languages Many different languages and disciplines are involved in Asian research on environmental conflicts. Linguistic diversity combined with the varied economic, legal, political and social contexts of the Asian continent gives birth to myriad debates about environmental...

While scholars of state crime and organized crime have frequently explored the intersection of these fields with green criminology, for the most part they have not brought the two together as organized state criminality as a means to explore environmental destruction. Of the few explorations of organized state green crime that do exist, most do not...

This exploratory study develops a "southern green cultural criminology" approach to the prevention of environmental harms and crimes. The main aim is to understand differing cultural representations of nature, including wildlife, present within four Colombian Indigenous communities to evaluate whether they encourage environmentally friendly human i...

Indigenous peoples, their cultures and territories, have been subjected to continuous victimisation, plunder and genocide throughout history-or at least 'history' as created by and written from the North. Since contact with colonisers, these many different peoples have suffered legal and illegal forms of direct, structural and symbolic violence. Me...

Collective memory of atrocities is a fractured and disputed terrain. In this article, we empirically explore the complex process of translating violent events that took place in Medellín during the 1980s and 1990s into collective memory. It examines the conflict between Medellín inhabitants' (in)ability to overcome trauma and shape their collective...

Most analyses of international wildlife law (IWL) focus on the specifics of implementing particular policies, while there is less engagement with the fundamental philosophies underpinning international conventions. In this article, I argue that a philosophical analysis can achieve a deeper understanding of IWL by helping to identify, assess and com...

La criminología verde fue inaugurada oficialmente hace 29 años. Desde entonces, ha enriquecido la disciplina criminológica proponiendo, mayormente, nuevas perspectivas críticas, teorías, conceptos y áreas de investigación. En los últimos cinco años, la atención de los criminólogos verdes se ha dirigido al Sur Global como el sitio geográfico que exp...

Latin America has been the site of extensive raw material extraction ever since its colonization by Europeans in the late 15th century. Throughout this period, large-scale resource extraction and associated practices—agroindustry, deforestation, disposal of waste and dangerous substances, industrial fishing, mining, and wildlife trafficking—have be...

Generally, the traditional Indigenous ways of 'knowing and seeing' the natural world lead to more protective behaviours than the dominating economic approach that represents the interests of the global North. Indigenous ways of living and remembering are however, currently threatened with erosion by several global dynamics. While many of the most p...

There is a dearth of criminological scholarship on how the political persuasions of governments affect Indigenous people as it relates to human rights and environmental consequences, whether positive or negative, for Indigenous peoples. To address this gap, we develop a comparative instrumental case study of the policies concerning Indigenous peopl...

A southern criminology perspective on the study of climate change is overdue, given that climate change is a global phenomenon with localised effects. This article is a southern empirical criminological study of the colonial causes of, justice consequences of and southern responses to climate change. The study is based on four years of research in...

This chapter distinguishes between “biopiracy” and “bioprospecting,” before identifying characteristics, elements and features of biopiracy (e.g., appropriation, exploitation and injustice), and then delineating the harms produced by biopiracy (e.g., distributive, ecological, sociological, symbolic, epistemological). From here, the chapter discusse...

OVERVIEW Chapter 9 examines the following issues: • The formation of a global environmental governance, its drivers and implications. • The development of a criminology of the green. • The three core justice stances within green criminology. • The tensions and paradoxes within green criminology. • The main economic, political and cultural drive...

mages of a burning rainforest invaded social media for a week. The eyes of the world turned, for a few days, to the devastation transpiring in one of the most biodiverse regions of the world. The BBC titled its frontpage article as ‘The Amazon is on Fire.’ Among the material included in the news outlets were pictures and testimonies of the Indigeno...

Green criminology was officially inaugurated 29 years ago. Since then, it has largely enriched the criminological discipline by introducing new critical perspectives, theories, concepts, and areas of research. In the past five years, the attention of green criminologists has been directed at the Global South as the geographical site that experience...

In this chapter, I provide the conceptual and political pillars of a Southern green criminology. First, I define the concepts central to this book: ecological discrimination, a science to end discrimination and a science of the discriminated against. Second, I reflect on two expressions of ecological discrimination: speciesism and culturism. Buildi...

In this first chapter, I present green criminology as a project based on three pillars and characterised by two traits. I explain how one cultural model and one economic theory have inspired most green criminology undertakings. But mainly, I argue that it is time for the structured appearance of a Southern green criminology, given that recent devel...

In this chapter I present the philosophical pillars of a Southern green criminology. I develop this work by asking ultimate questions. First, I argue that green criminology has yet to establish and develop the most important fundamental premises that every inquiry must have—ontological, epistemological, and methodological premises. To fill that gap...

In this chapter I present the scientific pillar of the project. Given the political proposal that informs the book, it is necessary for me to show why and how such an activist endeavour as I propose produces valid and reliable knowledge. To this end, I deal with the historical debate about the role of the intellectual in society based on the ideal...

In this chapter I present the historical pillar on which a Southern green criminology can build new knowledge. Employing a genealogy of Southern green criminology, I show how the Global South was producing Southern and green criminological knowledge long before they became foci of academic research. Based on my historical account, I argue that the...

In this chapter I present the methodological pillar of a Southern green criminology. It may prove useful for researchers and students interested in developing a science to end ecological discrimination. My main concern in presenting this method is to upset the colonialist logic that sustains culturism and speciesism. In my “stereoscope” of ecologic...

In this second part of the book I transition from the theoretical to the applied, or from thinking Southern green criminology to doing Southern green criminology. In this chapter I apply the theoretical bases I presented in the first part of the book to the most encompassing environmental issue of our times: climate change. I show how a Southern gr...

The Global South is rich in biodiversity, including sought-after seeds and plants. In this chapter I show the culturist and speciesist dynamics that have removed Southern control of them. I discuss the ever increasing spiral of biopiracy to point to the interlinked dynamics that help multinational corporations monopolise seeds and plants.

Land is a main component of the earth system and one of the “goods” over which humans have waged many wars and conflicts throughout history. In this chapter I present the empirical and discursive dynamics that lead to ecological discrimination regarding land. I focus on three means by which Southern land is legally grabbed: private armies, discours...

Humans are a key component of the earth system. Through our interactions with nature we have irreversibly altered and damaged all components of the system, ourselves included. Usually fields other than green criminology focus on human exploitation and trafficking, but in this chapter I show how environmental discourses and practices are used to jus...

Many of the human communities that comprise the South have cosmologies that place human and nonhuman animals on a continuum. Culturism, with its foreign logic and dynamics has broken this continuum, thereby fuelling speciesist practices. In this chapter, I portray the deep relation that some rural Southern communities have with nonhuman animals, an...

I dedicate half of the book to establishing the theoretical basis of a Southern green criminology as a science that contests ecological discrimination. My political premise for such a theoretical design is that a Southern green criminology must seek to scientifically uncover the harmful practices that make the South victim to ecological discriminat...

The aim of this dual special issue project—simultaneously published in two languages in two distinguished international journals (International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy and Crítica Penal y Poder) —is to support the goal of Southern criminology to level inequalities in the valuing of criminological knowledge in the Global Nort...

Conservation and development discourses are the two main frameworks in which global debates on how to relate to nature occur. These discourses are considered as opposed; while conservation discourses argue for the maintenance of nature in its pristine state, development discourses seek to justify re-engineering spaces to give place to cities, monoc...

En esta ponencia me voy a enfocar en explorar las afectaciones que el tráfico de fauna silvestre le genera a los pueblos indígenas de Colombia. Específicamente en esta intervención argumentaré que el tráfico de fauna silvestre en Colombia tiene la doble consecuencia negativa de poner en peligro de extinción no solo seres tangibles que componen la r...

¿Qué significa ser indígena?

En el prefacio de su libro Epistemologías del sur (2016: viii), de Sousa Santos escribe que 'tres ideas básicas' guiaron la escritura del libro. Primero, un reconocimiento de que 'la comprensión del mundo supera con creces la comprensión occidental del mundo'. Segundo, la proposición de que 'no hay justicia social global'-nosotros agregaríamos que...

RESUMEN Las narrativas de 'conservación' y 'desarrollo' son los dos principales discursos que enmarcan los debates globales sobre cómo el ser humano debe relacionarse con la naturaleza. Estas narrativas son consideradas como discursivamente opuestas: mientras las narrativas de conservación buscan mantener a la naturaleza en su estado original; las...

Iñaki Rivera Universidad de Barcelona En el prefacio de su libro Epistemologías del sur (2016: viii), de Sousa Santos escribe que 'tres ideas básicas' guiaron la escritura del libro. Primero, un reconocimiento de que 'la comprensión del mundo supera con creces la comprensión occidental del mundo'. Segundo, la proposición de que 'no hay justicia soc...

This article attempts an ambitious undertaking by scholars collaborating from far flung parts of the globe to redefine the geographic and conceptual limits of critical criminology. We attempt to scope, albeit briefly, the various contributions to criminology (not all of it critical) from Argentina, Asia, Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa. Our aim...

Generally, in the modern, western world, conceptualizations of the natural environment are associated with what nature can offer us—an anthropocentric perspective whereby humans treat nature and all its biotic components as ‘natural resources’. When nature and the beings within it are regarded purely in utilitarian terms, humans lose sight of the f...

Although green criminology emerged in the 1990s, commentators still refer to it as a ‘new subgenre within criminology’. Perhaps this is because green criminology continues to open original lines of research, as evidenced by Environmental Crime and Collaborative State Intervention, edited by Grant Pink and Rob White. The strengths of this innovative...

By studying the processes and actors involved in the drafting and introduction of the ‘usurpation of breeders’ rights’ offence in the Colombian penal code, this article examines the dynamics of influence external to the nation-State, in shaping an example of criminal law. The departure point for this study is the knowledge brought about by globaliz...

This article investigates the Red de Semillas Libres de Colombia [Colombian Network of Free Seeds] movement, since its inception to date (2013-2016). The study, developed within the framework of green criminology and with a focus on environmental justice, draws on ethnographic observations of Red de Semillas and semi-structured interviews with grou...

A huge peasant mobilization was taking place in several Colombian regions in 2012. Roads were blocked and confrontations between the police and peasants took place. It was the beginning of one of many paros agrarios (agricultural strikes). One of the reasons behind the strike was the difficulties that the campesinos were experiencing due to seed pr...

Este libro nació como respuesta a la comprensión crítica de que si bien la criminología verde ha crecido en cuanto a su ámbito de interés y orientación, el campo de la criminología verde (si de hecho se puede hablar de un campo) todavía está restringido en su alcance y potencial de colaboración y discusión, pues es principalmente practicada por est...

While green criminology has grown in its scope and orientation, the field is still limited, being primarily practiced by Northern, and with publications written almost exclusively in English. In this chapter, I argue that because of its ability to study instances of environmental degradation, green criminology could be used as decolonial tool by id...

The important part of the massacre [of indigenous leaders] was that it showed that the State, the Army, one of the traditional political parties, the merchants and the paramilitaries were all involved. It was an alliance between all of them. Ultimately the only difference between the army and the paramilitaries is that they dress differently at nig...

Over the last 25 years, Green Criminology has developed into a fertile area of study that now attracts scholars from around the world with a wide range of research interests and theoretical orientations. It spans the micro to the macro–from work on individual-level environmental harms to business/corporate crimes to state transgressions–and include...

Although the first published use of the term ‘green criminology’ seems to have been made by Lynch (Green criminology. Aldershot, Hampshire, 1990/2006), elements of the analysis and critique represented by the term were established well before this date. There is much criminological engagement with, and analysis of, environmental crime and harm that...

Debatten om forskerens rolle i det større samfunn er ikke nytt. Antonio Gramsci (1971) skrev i stor grad om emnet da han ble fengslet mellom 1929 og 1935. Den samme debatten ble profesjonalisert med fremveksten av vitenskapssosiologi i 1960-tallet. Denne debatten presenterer vanligvis to sider i motsetning: på den ene siden er ideen om en forsker s...

Since its inception, green criminology has attempted to highlight instances of environmental degradation and destruction, as well as examine and analyse the causes thereof and contemplate the responses thereto. Efforts to reduce environmental crime and curb environmental harm, more generally, have not gone unimpeded, however. Activists around the w...

p>This article raises the question of whether recently implemented legislation in Colombia and Brazil (1) provides the necessary tools to prevent the harms of wildlife trafficking (WLT) and (2) influences humans’ practices concerning the use of nonhuman animals. These questions are investigated from the dual perspectives of green criminology and pu...

The possibility of commercially exploiting plant, animal and human genetic resources unlocked by biotechnology has given rise to a wide range of cultural, environmental, ethical and economic conflicts. While supporters describe this activity as bioprospecting, critics refer to it as biopiracy. According to this latter view, international legal agre...

When people are confronted with information that is deemed to be so disturbing that it is difficult to remain passive, acknowledgment responses are elicited. By becoming committed to the issue, an act of acknowledgment provides a psychologically and morally appropriate response to what the person knows. However, if a harmful situation exists but it...

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La presente publicación nace del proyecto de investigación "Determinantes Científicas, Económicas y Socio-ambientales de la Bioprospección en Colombia (2003-2010)", financiado por Colciencias y ejecutado por la Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Para generar la comparación de modelos del presente capítulo, se adoptó el método del estudio de casos (Stake, 1999; 2005) y se presenta el contexto en que se desarrolla cada uno de los modelos, entendiendo a este como las categorías relevantes para la comprensión de las condiciones científicas, económicas, socio-ambientales, temporales y espaciale...

Con este doble propósito en el presente escrito se iniciará argumentando las razones y la pertinencia de incluir el desarrollo de productos comerciales basados en los componentes biológicos (y necesariamente genéticos) del cuerpo humano, en el concepto de bioprospección con el que se viene trabajando. Una vez expuestos los argumentos que dotan de l...