Indigenous/Native Peoples and Green Criminology: Toward Fuller Inclusion

• In Event: Theory and Application in Critical Criminology

Abstract

Green criminology has made infrequent reference to the forms of ecological destruction that harm Indigenous/Native peoples (INPs) throughout the world. Green crimes against Indigenous people (GCINP) are extensions of colonial (de facto colonialism) and neo-colonial capitalism as practiced in the contemporary global world system and shaped by the treadmill of production. Unfortunately for INPs, in the contemporary neo-colonial context, governments of developing/underdeveloped nations contribute to GCINPs by selling extractions rights to INP lands. In this paper, we not only call on green criminologists to pay increased attention to GCINP, we also explore the theoretical parameters of the political economic explanation of GCINP and review examples of contemporary green crimes against INPs.

Authors

• Michael J. Lynch, University of South Florida

• Paul B. Stretesky, Northumbria University

• Michael A. Long, Northumbria University