RT Article
T1 Southern green victimology: a look at the cycle of environmental harms, resistance and over-criminalisation
JF Punishment in Latin America
SP 201
OP 218
A1 Vegh Weis, Valeria
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1931464103
AB Building upon the working notion of Southern green victimology, the presentation explores the case of Andalgalá, Province of Catamarca, Argentina, where international corporations have been trying to develop a mining project that would affect the environment and the health of the local population. Facing the lack of support from the state, the organised local community tried to prevent their actual environmental victimisation and they committed to stop this damaging undertaking. Following these intents, the Argentinean criminal justice system acted to the detriment of these local actors (over-criminalisation) and favour mining corporations that can cause irreparable damage to the local water and air resources (under-criminalisation). In short, the case study will shed light on the common features of Southern green victimisation: (1) attempts to consolidate corporate investments involving extensive environmental harms in forms already banned in the Global North, (2) a committed resistance by the local environmental groups, (3) the harsh selectivity of the criminal justice system, and (4). immunity of corporate environmental harms/crimes.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 215-218
SN 9781837973293
K1 Southern
K1 Green victimology
K1 environmental harms
K1 Resistance
K1 Argentina
K1 Criminalisation