Grave matters: ghost criminology, necropolitics and the Anthropocene
Throughout his career Nigel South has pioneered approaches in green criminology, and this chapter takes up the challenges posed by his discussion of the criminological significance of ‘the Anthropocene’ (South, 2015). Together with Avi Brisman, he noted that one of the striking paradoxes contained i...
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| Tipo de documento: | Print Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2025
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Criminological connections, directions, horizons
Año: 2025, Páginas: 236-252 |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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| Sumario: | Throughout his career Nigel South has pioneered approaches in green criminology, and this chapter takes up the challenges posed by his discussion of the criminological significance of ‘the Anthropocene’ (South, 2015). Together with Avi Brisman, he noted that one of the striking paradoxes contained in the term is the way it conveys a threshold change in the relationship of the human species to the natural world, where humans become a force of nature, though we seem incapable of saving ourselves from impending extinction (Brisman and South, 2018). Yet the scale of these challenges far exceeds what human experience can comprehend – and it is here that developments in the emerging field of ‘ghost criminology’ can aid our understanding of these devastating times. Nowhere is the understanding that time is ‘out of joint’ more apparent than in the planetary crisis caused by ‘climate weirding’, where the harms inflicted in the present herald the spectre of future catastrophe (Fiddler et al., 2023) and the multifaceted dimensions of loss as the climate changes in particularly destructive, unpredictable ways. |
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| Notas: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 249-252 |
| ISBN: | 9781032513065 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003401629-3 |
