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Studies in green criminology have confirmed how important it is for criminology to turn its focus to environmental risks, harms, and massive tragedies caused by human activity. Specifically, Southern green criminology has shown how the coloniality of knowledge limits the imagination when comprehending and analysing environmental harm, the victims,...
This article proposes a visual and sensory methodology useful to the study of environmental victimization from the perspective of people exposed to environmental harm and crime. Given the scarcity of tools with which to approach these dynamic and elusive phenomena, I focus first on the methodological and theoretical positioning that sees the encoun...
This chapter discusses the potential usefulness of a visual and sensory methodology for investigating the social perception of environmental crime and harm. Given the scarcity of tools with which to approach these dynamic and elusive phenomena, we focus first on the theoretical and methodological overlaps between green, cultural, visual, and sensor...
This article advances a theoretical perspective on violent crime, using interviews with male prisoners in Italy who had perpetrated violence. By drawing on Athens’ (1992, 1997, 2007, 2017) “radical interactionism,” we propose the concept of “violent cosmology” in order to counter linear explanations of cause and effect. In an effort to complement n...
Green criminology, environmental crime
A new range of visual and sensory strategies is emerging as an alternative mode of knowledge in criminology. Drawing on data from a pilot study, which started in 2017 at San Vittore Prison (in Milan, Italy), we discuss the potential, utility and the limitations of a visual and mobile participatory methodology for investigating what is perceived and...
The article explores the processes of environmental victimization from the perspective of “green-cultural criminology”. It promotes the adoption of a visual approach in qualitative investigation, using a method known as “photo-elicitation”. To do so, it relies on general elements as well as on a case study conducted in Huelva, in southern Spain, a...
Building on the visual criminological endeavour, the article describes an ongoing pilot study exploring the potential usefulness of a visual and sensory methodology for investigating the social perception of environmental crime and harm. Given the scarcity of tools with which to approach these dynamic and elusive phenomena, I focus first on the met...
Although Europe has banned asbestos since 2005, many of the occupational and environmental harms perpetrated by the industry are still appearing. The aim of this paper is to present a new methodological technique to explore and map the social perception of these environmental crimes and harms. In particular, we ask: how do social actors feel about...
The aim of this contribution is to map out, from a green criminology perspective, some contextual and theoretical scenarios that help to interpret and properly situate the phenomenon of “historical pollution” within wider cultural and scholarly frameworks. I will do this by briefly considering three different scenarios: Love Canal (USA), Brescia (I...
In this article, we will respond to recent calls for a ‘green cultural criminology’ by attempting to open the way for new visual explorations of environmental harms and crimes, and by suggesting some methodological perspectives that can be advanced by the use and analysis of the photographic image. To demonstrate the power, potential and possibilit...
This chapter describes how coming into contact with the narratives of environmental victims—promoted by the use of photography—helps to develop different forms of reflexivity also useful for imagining and confronting the present environmental crisis. This challenge cannot really be undertaken without developing an active listening attitude towards...
In this chapter, I suggest that visual research in green criminology may help (1) in exploring the silent knowledge of social actors of different social, cultural and ecological contexts; and (2) in bridging cultural and natural worlds, thereby crossing the dichotomous divide between what is natural and what is social. During this journey towards k...
This chapter starts with a detailed examination of the explorative phase involved in my empirical research. In this part, I flesh out the theoretical and methodological frames of this proposal for visual research. While retaining as the centre of analysis the single case study, which was the focus of Chap. 2, the ideas in this chapter and in the fo...
In this chapter, I examine Huelva, a town in southern Spain, heavily polluted by a huge industrial and chemical plant built during the 1960s in close proximity to the town. This case of environmental crime is guided by questions such as: How do people live and give a meaning to their experiences in contaminated places? What is the link between the...
In this chapter, I describe how photo elicitation can serve as a new source of qualitative data in environmental research and how it is crucial in promoting narratives about social perceptions of contamination. I also explain how photographs are decisive in becoming a reflexive and collaborative “bridge” between subjects and researchers. Furthermor...
The research questions of today’s green criminologists require a multiplicity of conceptual approaches and methods of inquiry. In this chapter, I share some reflections designed to open the way for new visual explorations of environmental harms and crimes from an emergent criminological perspective. This idea is profitably put in dialogue with what...
The interaction between what we observe and the words used to describe our observations produces reciprocal understandings. In this chapter, I describe some theoretical and methodological principles for the use of the photographic image as a method of researching environmental crimes and harms—a green criminology with images—with a particular focus...
This book brings the visual dimension of environmental crimes and harms into the field of green criminology. It shows how photographic images can provide a means for eliciting narratives from people who live in polluted areas – describing in detail and from their point of view what they know, think and feel about the reality in which they find them...
Contemporary wars have produced serious consequences in terms of environmental harms, from the defoliants of Vietnam through the burning oil wells of Kuwait to the use of depleted uranium started in the Gulf War. This contribution proposes an examination of these phenomena from largely unexplored socio-criminological coordinates. First, I will outl...
This paper deals with the topic of GMOs from a pluralistic and emerging perspective termed "green criminology" - a new field in criminology that has, for the first time, environmental issues as a specific object of analysis. Both the re-reading of the philosophical concept of phàrmakon and its interpretation within this peculiar field allow to prop...
In an early contribution, Nigel South (1998) poses some of the following questions: Why do we feel the need for a green criminology? On which already extant works could it be built and what are the theoretical questions that can be asked? More than 15 years later, these questions still prove useful and effective in approaching the multiple contribu...
RESUMEN En este artículo exploraremos un escenario ambiental específico: Huelva, una ciudad en el sur de España, enormemente contaminada por unas plantas industriales y químicas establecidas durante los años sesenta del pasado siglo, y construidas en las proximidades de la ciudad, en lo que podríamos llamar su patio trasero (backyard) (Natali, 2010...
Criminologist Rob White (2011) defines eco-global criminology as that field of criminology concerned with eco-justice and ecological issues – such as those relating to climate change, biodiversity, waste and pollution. In this framework of analysis, environmental activism is very relevant and crucial to prompt environmental reforms and social chang...
