Perceiving and Communicating Environmental Contamination and Change: Towards a Green Cultural Criminology with Images

A sensory and visual approach for comprehending environmental victimization by the asbestos industry in Casale Monferrato

“…Drawing on the new field of visual criminology (Brown and Carrabine, 2017) and on the long wave of a creative sensitivity (see also Jacobsen, 2014), the methodology used in this research places itself within what Brisman and South (2014) conceptualize as a 'green cultural criminology' -a criminological perspective that tries to imagine new modes of analysing critically the intersection of culture, crime, justice and environment -open to the narrative dimension (see Brisman, 2017a). On this theoretical basis, a qualitative visual method may represent one of the possible avenues of a green cultural criminology in order to explore the multiple aspects of environmental crimes from a green and cultural perspective (see also Brisman, 2017b;Ferrell, 2013: 349;Natali, 2013Natali, , 2016bNatali, , 2016dNatali and McClanahan, 2017). 2 As visual criminologist Michelle Brown (2017) elucidates, '[t]he turn to the visual is indicative of a larger turn to the sensory that brings back the material, physical, affective and embodied experiences of harm, control, injustice, and resistance'.…”

Earth–world–planet: Rural ecologies of horror and dark green criminology

“…In part, we might challenge the primacy of western empiricism in green criminological thought, as it is in that epistemic tradition that "green" emerges as a category corresponding to romantic visions of "nature". Such a rethinking has been signaled previously by strands of ecofeminist (Sollund, 2013), southern (see, generally, Goyes and South, 2017;Mol et al, 2018), andvisual (see, generally, Natali, 2016;Natali and McClanahan, 2017) green criminology.…”

“…From a criminological perspective, the ecological problems of extraction described above fall squarely under the purview of green criminology. Indeed, there is a robust body of work that considers both the ecological (see, generally, Natali and McClanahan, 2017;White, 2013) and social (see, generally, Carrington et al, 2010Carrington et al, , 2011 effects of mining. The majority of work produced under the mantle of green criminology, though, has adopted traditional understandings of the "natural world" based on concepts of "green" "nature" that rise from an unbreakable adherence to notions of "environment".…”

“…More recently, Avi Brisman andNigel South (2013, 2014) have called for the development of a "green cultural criminology", a turn that seeks to orient the curious gaze of cultural criminology toward issues of environmental harm and its cultural dimensions and representation(s). These calls have primarily, so far at least, brought forth some criminological interest in visual depictions of the intersection(s) of culture and environment (see, generally, Carrabine, 2018;McClanahan et al, 2017;Natali and McClanahan, 2017), a tendency that illustrates not only an increased interest in cultural issues within green criminology, but also the simultaneous cross-pollination of visual criminology with green and cultural criminological variants.…”

Surrounded by sound: Noise, rights and environments

“…Building upon the development of a 'green cultural criminology' South, 2013, 2014), this article explores the scope for a criminology of sound, noise and the aural. In doing so, it aims to make a contribution to an emerging sensory criminology (visual (Brown and Carrabine, 2017;Natali and McClanahan, 2017), olfactory (Henshaw, 2014;Hsu, 2016) and auditory (Atkinson, 2007;Hayward, 2012)), as well as the study of deviant leisure (Smith and Raymen, 2016), and of aesthetic uses and meanings of urban life and culture (Millie, 2017).…”