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Environmental Crime in Latin America

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology Book Series

Editors: Rodríguez Goyes, David; Mol, Hanneke; Brisman, Avi; South, Nigel

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-55705-6

ISBN: 978-1-137-55704-9

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Sep 13, 2017

1 - 10 of 13 Chapters

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Introduction: The Theft of Nature and the Poisoning of the Land in Latin America

Brisman, Avi; Goyes, David Rodríguez; Mol, Hanneke; South, Nigel

Pages: 1 –9

[Over the last 25 years, Green Criminology has developed into a fertile area of study that now attracts scholars from around the world with a wide range of research interests and theoretical orientations. It spans the micro to the macro–from work on individual-level environmental harms to...
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The Environmental Damages and Liabilities of Collective Suicide

Suárez, Cleotilde Hernández

Pages: 13 –30

[When different types of anthropogenic effects on nature are discussed in daily life and even in academic circles, the phrase “We are destroying the planet” is heard to the point where it becomes a cliché. This expression, however, contains—and conceals—dynamic and complex relationships between...
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The Archipelago of Chiloé and the Uncertain Contours of its Future: Coloniality, New Extractivism and Political-Social Re-vindication of Existence

Mondaca, Eduardo

Pages: 31 –55

[The recent history of the Archipelago of Chiloé is one of violent exploitation that has affected its place and space, as well as the existential meanings of its community, yet expressions of protest and resistance have been silenced. This was a complex political, institutional and ideological...
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Understanding Environmental Harm and Justice Claims in the Global South: Crimes of the Powerful and Peoples’ Resistance

Rojas-Páez, Gustavo

Pages: 57 –83

[Historically, the commodification of nature has been accompanied by, and resulted in, violent processes generating both human and environmental harm. Ever since colonial times, the plundering of natural resources has served the interests of powerful groups that have benefited from dehumanizing...
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Mining in Colombia: Tracing the Harm of Neoliberal Policies and Practices

Gutiérrez-Gómez, Laura

Pages: 85 –113

[The mining business has long been known as a dirty one: from nineteenth-century coal mines—where black lung, collapsing roofs and gas explosions were among the standard occupational hazards—to twenty-first-century open-pit gold mines—where land poisoning and depletion of renewable and...
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Global Pollution, Multinational Oil Companies and State Power: The Case of Yaiguaje v. Chevron Corporation

Yeager, Matthew G.; Smith, Jade L.

Pages: 117 –140

[This chapter is a case study of an ongoing class action tort claim against one of the largest multinational oil companies in the world, Chevron Corporation (“Chevron”). It highlights not only the early work of Edwin Sutherland on white collar crime (1940, 1949, 1983), but addresses the role of...
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A Decade of Social and Environmental Mobilization Against Mega-Mining in Chubut, Argentinian Patagonia

Weinstock, Ana Mariel

Pages: 141 –162

[The social-environmental movement against mega-mining in Argentina gained worldwide attention in 2003, when Esquel, a small city of no more than 30,000 inhabitants, located in the province of Chubut in the Patagonia region and far away from the centres of power, impeded a multinational firm from...
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Agro-Industry Expansion Through “Strategic Alliances”: The Shifting Dynamics of Palm Oil-Related Dispossession

Mol, Hanneke

Pages: 163 –186

[In order to open up new terrains to capital accumulation, agro-industries expand into, transform, and, in the process, frequently destroy socio-natural spaces where a noncapitalist logic of production and subsistence hitherto predominated. The expropriations upon which such capital accumulation...
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The Injustices of Policing, Law and Multinational Monopolization in the Privatization of Natural Diversity: Cases from Colombia and Latin America

Rodríguez Goyes, David; South, Nigel

Pages: 187 –212

[The important part of the massacre [of indigenous leaders] was that it showed that the State, the Army, one of the traditional political parties, the merchants and the paramilitaries were all involved. It was an alliance between all of them. Ultimately the only difference between the army and...
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The Use and Abuse of Animals in Wildlife Trafficking in Colombia: Practices and Injustice

Sollund, Ragnhild

Pages: 215 –243

[Millions of nonhuman animals (henceforth animals) are abducted from or killed in their nests, dens and habitats on a yearly basis. This transpires in large parts of the world, although for obvious reasons, it happens more in biologically dense and diverse areas, such as in the Amazonian or...

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