RT Book
T1 The Politics of Palm Oil Harm: A Green Criminological Perspective
T2 Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology
T2 SpringerLink Bücher
T2 Springer eBook Collection Law and Criminology
A1 Mol, Hanneke
LA English
PP Cham
PB Palgrave Macmillan
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1654883689
AB This book examines the politics of harm in the context of palm oil production in Colombia, with a primary focus on the Pacific coast region. Globally, the palm oil industry is associated with practices that fit the most conventional definitions and perceptions of crime, but also crucially, forms of social and environmental harm that do not fit strictly legalistic definitions and understandings of crime. Drawing on rich field-based data from the region, Mol contributes empirically to an awareness of the constructions, practices, and the lived and perceived realities of harm related to palm oil production. She advances criminological debate around ‘harm’ by putting forward a theoretical and analytical approach that redirects the debate from a central concern with the academic contestedness of harm within criminology, towards a focus on the ‘on-the-ground’ contestedness of palm oil-related harm in Colombia. Detailed analysis and arresting conclusions ensure this book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the fields of Green and Critical Criminology, Environmental Sociology, and International and Critical Development Studies
AB 1. Introduction -- 2. The Play of Power in the Politics of Harm -- 3. Palm Oil in Colombia: National and Local Context -- 4. Colombia’s Contested Grounds -- 5. Preparing the Ground: Discourses, Mechanisms, and Impacts -- 6. Reaping the Fruits -- 7. Conclusion: to Miss the Forest for the Trees? -- Annex: List of Interviews and Site Visits
OP 245
SN 9783319553788
K1 Industrial management : Environmental aspects
K1 environmental law
K1 Environmental Policy
K1 Critical Criminology
K1 Crime : Sociological aspects
K1 Transnational Crime
K1 Criminology and Criminal Justice
DO 10.1007/978-3-319-55378-8