Visual Approaches in Green Criminology

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

In the last twenty-five years, green criminology has developed into a fertile area of study that now attracts criminologists from around the world with a wide range of research interests and theoretical orientations. Indeed, green criminology spans the micro to the macro–from work on individual-level environmental harms to business/corporate crimes to state transgressions–and includes research conducted from both mainstream and critical theoretical perspectives, as well as arising from interdisciplinary efforts. In this panel, we consider the visual representation of environmental crime and environmental harm, more generally. Drawing on a wide range of films, paintings, photographs and mixed-media art, the papers in this panel seek to enhance our understanding of environmental harms through visual depictions thereof and augment the tools with which we enact, repeat and normalize environmental degradation and destruction. In so doing, these papers call for greater attention on the part of green criminologists to “the visual”—as both objects of examination and as means of data collection.

Sub Unit

• Area V: Types of Offending / 20: Environmental Crime

Individual Presentations

• Hogarth’s Beef - Piers Beirne, University of Southern Maine

• Representations of and Resistance to Environmental Crime and Harm: A Green-Cultural Criminological Perspective: A Redux - Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentucky University

• Itinerant soliloquies: A visual qualitative method to explore the social perception of environmental crime - Lorenzo Natali, University of Milan - Bicocca

• Monstrous nature, eco-horror and the criminological imagination - Nigel South, University of Essex

Chair

• Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentucky University

Discussant

• Phil Carney, University of Kent