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The four ways of eco-global criminology

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posted on 2023-05-19, 03:36 authored by Robert WhiteRobert White
In charting out the ‘four ways’ of eco‐global criminology, this paper discusses the importance of recognising and acting in regards to the differences evident in (1) ways of being (ontology), (2) ways of knowing (epistemology), (3) ways of doing (methodology) and (4) ways of valuing (axiology). The paper assumes and asserts that global study of environmental crime is essential to the green criminology project, and particularly an ecoglobal criminology approach. Specific instances of criminal and harmful activity therefore need to be analysed in the context of broad international social, political, economic and ecological processes. The article outlines the key ideas of eco‐global criminology, a perspective that argues that global study must always be inclusive of voices from the periphery and margins of the world’s metropolitan centres, and critical of the social relations that sustain the epistemological as well as material realities and legacies of colonialism and imperialism. Yet, in doing so, there arise many paradoxes and conundrums that likewise warrant close attention.

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Publication title

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy

Volume

6

Pagination

8-22

ISSN

2202-8005

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Queensland University of Technology * Crime and Justice Research Centre

Place of publication

Australia

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© The Author(s) 2017. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Repository Status

  • Open

Socio-economic Objectives

Justice and the law not elsewhere classified

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