RT Article
T1 Sensing Toxic Injustice: Exploring the Polluting Touch of Colonialism
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 65
IS 2
SP 344
OP 364
A1 Lam, Anita
A2 Kohm, Steven A.
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1925354679
AB The bodies of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls are often discovered at polluted sites in Winnipeg, Canada, including the Red River. Left at toxic sites that authorities deem environmentally dangerous, these women became untouchable in death, mired in sociocultural representations of disposability and wasting practices. We link murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls to the polluting effects of white settler colonialism especially pertaining to the degradation of Winnipeg’s waterways. As a means for enacting slow, environmental violence, current waste allocation practices remain tied to colonial systems that continue to harm Indigenous peoples. To foreground overlapping devaluations of Indigenous lands and people, we argue for a sensory criminology that is sensitized to the ongoing damage of colonial violence.
K1 Environmental Justice
K1 Colonialism
K1 sensory criminology
K1 wasting
K1 missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
DO 10.1093/bjc/azae048