Green and Grey: Water Justice, Criminalization, and Resistance

The Fable of The Three Little Pigs: Climate Change and Green Cultural Criminology

“…For present purposes, if cultural criminology is, to quote Ferrell (1999: 396), 'an emergent array of perspectives linked by sensitivities to image, meaning, and representation in the study of crime and crime control', then green cultural criminology might be conceptualised as an emergent array of perspectives linked by sensitivities to image, meaning and representation in the study of green or environmental crime and environmental crime control. Accordingly, green cultural criminology (1) harm and disaster are constructed, envisioned and represented by the news media and in popular cultural forms; (2) dedicates increased attention to patterns of consumption, constructed consumerism, commodification of nature and related market processes; and (3) devotes heightened concern to the contestation of space, transgression and resistance to analyse the ways in which environmental harms are opposed in and on the streets, and in day-to-day living (Brisman 2014(Brisman , 2015a(Brisman , 2017a(Brisman , 2017b(Brisman , 2017cBrisman and South 2012, 2015a, 2017cBrisman, McClanahan and South 2014;Mazurek 2017;McClanahan 2014;McClanahan, Brisman and South 2017;Redmon 2018;Schally 2018). The first of these is most pertinent to this paper's purpose.…”

On Narrative and Green Cultural Criminology

“…For present purposes, if cultural criminology is, as Ferrell (1999: 396), explains, 'an emergent array of perspectives linked by sensitivities to image, meaning, and representation in the study of crime and crime control', then green cultural criminology might be conceptualized as an emergent array of perspectives linked by sensitivities to image, meaning, and representation in the study of green or environmental crime and environmental crime control. Accordingly, green cultural criminology (1) considers the way(s) in which environmental crime, harm and disaster are constructed, represented and envisioned by the news media and in popular cultural forms; (2) dedicates increased attention to patterns of consumption, constructed consumerism, commodification of nature and related market processes; and (3) devotes heightened concern to the contestation of space, transgression, and resistance, in order to analyze the ways in which environmental harms are opposed in/on the streets and in day-to-day living (Brisman 2015, in press b;Brisman and South 2012, 2017a, 2017bBrisman, McClanahan and South 2014;see also Brisman 2014a, in press a;McClanahan 2014;Schally 2014). The first of these is most relevant to this paper's inquiry.…”

Interspecies Violence and Crimes of Dissent: Communication Ethics and Legitimacy in Message Crimes Involving Wildlife

“…Perhaps the clearest expression of this approach is to be found in so-called treadmill of production (ToP) theory, which attempts to elucidate the ways in which free market practices trump environmental ideals, laws and regulations, resulting in greater environmental degradation (Stretesky et al 2013). An alternative to this approach has been green cultural criminology, which has focused instead on questions of how agents differently ascribe, construct, or frame meanings of environmental harms, or represent the relationship between economy and ecology generally (Brisman 2015, in press a, c;Brisman and South 2012, 2017McClanahan 2014;McClanahan et al in press;Mazurek 2017;Schally 2014). Both approaches, however, appear to neglect the question of political legitimation.…”