Southern Green Criminology

Dr David R. Goyes, University of Oslo

Discussant Dr Annette Hübschle, University of Cape Town

Southern green criminology is concerned with the socio-criminological study of environmental crime in the global South, while being attentive to 1) the legacy of colonisation and North–South and core–periphery divides in the production of environmental crime, 2) the epistemological contributions of the marginalised, impoverished and oppressed and 3) the particularities of the contexts of the global South.

This presentation will address how the unequal distribution of economic, political, epistemological, and aesthetic capital between the global North and the global South upon the colonisation of the Americas has significantly shaped contemporary dynamics of environmental crime and harm.

This webinar is the eighth of a series of bi-monthly webinars entitled Security and Justice Futures which aim to confront the dilemmas, re-imaginings and futures of security and justice from a cross-regional perspective. Drawing from a range of speakers from north and south contexts, the series seeks to engage with both academic and practitioner audiences to encourage a mutual dialogue on the futures of security and justice in diverse contexts.