The State-Corporate Crime of Extractive Industries

Böhm, María Laura

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“…This is a result of colonialism and its persisting legacy evident in the number of alarming environmental and human rights violations. These harms and violations occur predominantly in the Global South due to operations by transnational corporations parented in the Global North (Böhm 2023;Goyes and South 2017;Muchlinski 2001). In this context, the legacies of colonialism continue to shape the experiences of people in the Global South (Budo, France and Natali 2023).…”

Section: Global Environmental Injustice and The State-corporate Crime...mentioning

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“…These calls have, however, been vehemently opposed by many countries in the Global North (de Shutter 2015). These powerful transnational corporations also often collude with Global South governments to evade accountability (Böhm 2023;Goyes and South 2017). It has become (transnational) corporate practice to take advantage of weaker regulatory systems and corruption in Global South countries to advance their interests, despite its detrimental effect on local communities and the environment (Böhm 2023).…”

Section: Global Environmental Injustice and The State-corporate Crime...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These powerful transnational corporations also often collude with Global South governments to evade accountability (Böhm 2023;Goyes and South 2017). It has become (transnational) corporate practice to take advantage of weaker regulatory systems and corruption in Global South countries to advance their interests, despite its detrimental effect on local communities and the environment (Böhm 2023). This toxic relationship between the state and corporations can be described as a state-corporate crime.…”

Section: Global Environmental Injustice and The State-corporate Crime...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…State-corporate crime is defined as: … illegal or socially injurious actions that result from a mutually reinforcing interaction between (1) policies and/or practices in pursuit of the goals of one or more institutions of political governance and (2) policies and/or practices in pursuit of the goals of one or more institutions of economic production and distribution. (Michalowski and Kramer 2006: 15) State-corporate crime is also increasingly applied within decolonial perspectives on environmental harm in the Global South (Böhm 2023;Brisman and South 2018;Goyes 2019). Kramer (2014) argues that this term can, and should, be applied to corporations' and states' refusal to eradicate harmful emissions.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Mpumalanga Highveld Air Pollution Crisis: A South African Reparations Framework for Environmental State–Corporate Harm

Kamolane-Kgadima,

Kathi

2024

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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The Highveld region in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province has a dense concentration of coal mines and coal-fired power stations. As a result, the area experiences severe levels of air pollution. Despite the government's obligation, little has been done to remedy the harm experienced by the environment and people in the Highveld. The complexity of the relationship between the state and corporations contributes to the government's reluctance to hold mining companies accountable. Obtaining remedies through courts has also yielded limited success. We, therefore, make a case for the creation of African environmental reparations and submit that the Mpumalanga Highveld region evidences the need for such reparations. African environmental reparations must be guided by the principles of Ubuntu, bolstered by the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, and employ restorative justice. Only in this way can air pollution be properly acknowledged as a multifarious harm, and the balance, harmony and unity between people and the environment repaired.

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Section: Global Environmental Injustice and The State-corporate Crime...mentioning

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Section: Global Environmental Injustice and The State-corporate Crime...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Mpumalanga Highveld Air Pollution Crisis: A South African Reparations Framework for Environmental State–Corporate Harm

Kamolane-Kgadima,

Kathi

2024

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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“…They identify state-sponsored violence and corporate harm as the most significant oppressive forces in peripheral contexts. Among these works, those associated to green criminology have been particularly fruitful (Bedford et al, 2020;Böhm, 2023;Boukli & Kotsakis, 2023;Goyes, 2016Goyes, , 2023. They have scrutinized the symbiotic relationship between state and corporate forces as grounded in North-South economic divides (Goyes, 2023).…”

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Value, logistics and violence: Contemporizing imperialism for a critical Southern criminology

Ciocchini,

Greener

2024

Sociology Compass

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This article develops both a critique of the Southern criminology project but also argues that a continued focus on the global organization of the economy should sit central in anti‐imperialist social science. Southern criminology, reflective of other trends in ‘decolonization’, has not placed a sustained critique of domination and exploitation central, viewing decolonization as possible without a radical upending of the global economy. This paper asserts that understanding imperialism through a materialist lens uncovers the structural forces at play in reshaping globally evolving and expansive economic infrastructures which generate and distribute surplus value. To illustrate the importance of this point for anti‐imperialist criminology, we engage with critical logistics studies which successfully shows how transnational projections of power reshape and sustain the global system of production and consumption, with which comes a series of harms and dispossessions. The variegated and fractured social orders which the revolution in circulation have required rearticulating policing, security and criminalization across multiple horizons and locations of social life. In terms of developing critical approaches to Southern criminology, a focus on critical logistics studies offers, by way of example, the possibility of grasping concrete legal orders, criminalization, and oppression central in producing the current regime of neo‐colonial circulation.

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The State-Corporate Crime of Extractive Industries

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The Mpumalanga Highveld Air Pollution Crisis: A South African Reparations Framework for Environmental State–Corporate Harm

The Mpumalanga Highveld Air Pollution Crisis: A South African Reparations Framework for Environmental State–Corporate Harm

Value, logistics and violence: Contemporizing imperialism for a critical Southern criminology

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