RT Article
T1 Earth–world–planet: Rural ecologies of horror and dark green criminology
JF Theoretical criminology
VO 24
IS 4
SP 633
OP 650
A1 McClanahan, Bill
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1745793569
AB This article responds to green criminology. Drawing on an ethnographic case study of the coal-producing region of Appalachia and the processes of mountaintop removal mining, the article engages contemporary philosophy, ecocriticism, and “dark ecology” to suggest that green criminology rethink its linguistic categories and epistemological assumptions. The article employs an analysis of some examples of horror cinema to suggest criminological engagement with “ecologies of horror” and the “horrors of ecology” that condition life in the shadow of harmful modes of resource extraction. It concludes with some thoughts on the potential of a “dark” green and green-cultural criminology.
K1 Ecology
K1 Green cultural criminology
K1 Horror
K1 Object-oriented ontology
K1 Resource extraction
DO 10.1177/1362480618819813