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Even in a country like the UK, which appears to be a nonhuman-animal-loving nation, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals receives over one million calls a year reporting possible nonhuman animal abuse or neglect. In order to decrease nonhuman animal suffering, there needs to be better understanding of perceptions towards nonhuman animals and their welfare. In this regard, this chapter moves beyond binary gender investigations to an inclusive exploration, via a survey, of attitudes of both people with the range of gender identities and people with different perceptions of gender roles towards nonhuman animals, with illustrative focus on status dogs. The findings confirm those from previous research but reveal some interesting nuances around non-cisgender identities. Such information may contribute to better understanding of gender identity and gender roles related attitudes towards nonhuman animal welfare and thus identify the gaps in public education about nonhuman animal abuse and ultimately such information will aid the abolition of animal oppression.
This chapter presents the theoretical promise of eco-feminism in explaining how the oppression of young women and girls is connected to the oppression of nature. Central to both forms of oppression is the ‘logic of domination’ – a conceptual framework maintaining harmful value dualisms and hierarchies. This logic also draws concrete parallels between the eco-violent commodification of nature and women’s bodies, theorising debt-for-nature (DFN) swaps and underage marriage in Indonesia through an eco-feminist lens. The interconnections of DFN swaps and various forms of violence against women and young girls in the context of human and environmental security prompt immediate responses from international organisations.
This chapter explores the burdens experienced by men in combating ecological destruction and in particular contesting the pressures and limits of patriarchal capitalism. Masculinity is multidimensional – it has ‘heroic’ and ‘caring’ aspects, as well as destructive and oppressive dimensions. Men are both complicit in and opposed to the damage wrought by the state and corporate capitalist machine. The ‘Davids’ are those fighting against the structural power and institutional weight of patriarchal capitalism. The ‘Goliaths’ are those at the helm of the existing global capitalist power structure (male and female) whose class interests necessarily involve exploitations of humans (men, women and children) and natural resources (minerals, trees, fish, seeds). The Goliath structure is comprised of patterns of behaviour, culture and institutional power, affecting all men and women, that variously benefit or disadvantage particular individuals (men and women) depending upon where they are located in the overarching power structure. The burdens of patriarchal capitalism are both structural (in the sense of narrowly shaping human experience insofar as it is informed by specific notions of ‘hegemonic masculinity’ and ‘economic imperatives’) and oppressive (in the sense that pushing back against the power structure inevitably comes at a cost – financial, reputational, employment and, in some instances, lives).
This chapter focuses on ecological (eco-)feminism. The foundation of eco-feminism is the relationship between women, the earth and environmentalism. The chapter traces our theoretical and conceptual understanding of green criminology using eco-feminism as the springboard for assessing the extent to which green criminology is gendered and for developing a framework for embedding a gendered approach to the green criminological and victimological project into the future. The first substantive section outlines the hallmarks of eco-feminism tuning in to the history of eco-feminism as well as insights from more recent environmental justice/environmental racism contributions from outside of criminology all under the heading ‘eco-feminism as a benchmark’. The second part of the chapter examines contemporary scholarship within green criminology and identifies the extent, variety and strength of the eco-feminist theoretical underpinnings to that work. The third part of the chapter considers eco-feminism and intersectionalities. Across the piece, the chapter considers the enduring strength of eco-feminism as well as critiques and limitations, reflecting on why the influence of gendered theorising is not more embedded in green criminology. Drawing to a close, the chapter considers the extent to which eco-feminism holds out for a gender-sensitive form of justice into the 21st century.
Our ambition for this book is to bring together feminist and green criminology for the first time in a scholarly volume where all contributions are devoted to the project of gendering green criminology. The editorial team is comprised of experts in gender and crime and in green criminology/environmental harm. The idea for the edited collection, and some of the chapters included, arose from a conference organised by the editors through the 'Green Criminology' and 'Women, Crime and Criminal Justice' Networks of the British Society of Criminology. That conference inspired us to expand the discussion and scope of inquiry into the gendering of green criminology.
Our ambition for this book is to bring together feminist and green criminology for the first time in a scholarly volume where all contributions are devoted to the project of gendering green criminology. The editorial team is comprised of experts in gender and crime and in green criminology/environmental harm. The idea for the edited collection, and some of the chapters included, arose from a conference organised by the editors through the 'Green Criminology' and 'Women, Crime and Criminal Justice' Networks of the British Society of Criminology. That conference inspired us to expand the discussion and scope of inquiry into the gendering of green criminology.
The first volume in green criminology devoted to gender, this book investigates gendered patterns to offending, victimisation and environmental harms. Including feminist and intersectional analysis, and with original case studies from the Global North and Global South, the book also examines actions that have been taken in response to gendered crimes and harms, together with insights on the gendered nature of resistance.
The collection advances debate on green crimes, environmental harm and climate change and will inspire students and researchers to foreground gender in debates about reducing and transforming the challenges affecting our planet’s future.
Paving the way for transportation of minerals and other extracted resources between Turkey, Russia and Europe, in the Eastern Black Sea (EBS) region of Turkey, the controversial 2,600km ‘Green Road’ is planned to be constructed. The project also aims to connect tourism centres throughout the highlands of the provinces of Artvin, Rize, Trabzon, Giresun, Ordu, Gumushane, Bayburt and Samsun in the EBS region; all previously protected as conservation areas and public land. Environmentalists and people in this region are greatly concerned that the project may have a potentially devastating impact on the environment, and local people are under threat of green crime from extractive industries. There are fears that the ‘Green Road’ will cause erosion, forest loss, habitat fragmentation, stream pollution and other ecological destruction. The project also threatens the traditional, seasonal migrations of people who bring their livestock up into the highland pastures to graze each summer. These devastating developments cause women’s green victimisation (WGV) and put women’s livelihoods at risk, ultimately forcibly removing them from their traditional living spaces.
This chapter employs the Treadmill of Production (ToP) theory to analyse WGV in Turkey. To understand solidarity efforts and the collective actions of women against WGV in the EBS region of Turkey, the ToP will be combined with an eco-feminist analysis. Drawing data from online ethnographic research, it proposes that the incorporation of green and feminist criminology is needed to understand the gendered dynamics involved in WGV in Turkey, which is rooted in patriarchal power structures. Such a power structure not only causes green crime it also threatens the social, economic and political survival of women. The study concludes that regional, national and transnational resistance networks against dams, mines and other environmental threats are fertile grounds to raise awareness, especially among women, and address WGV.
The main objective of this chapter is to elucidate the different forms of green victimisation experienced by women and men in the context of the international waste industry.
The international waste industry is exploiting countries that import waste. Most of these countries are in the Global South. The dynamics of both legal and illegal waste management industries have transformed the receiving areas into waste dumps where the local population works looking for recyclable materials. In many cases, these activities are carried out in the absence of compliance with the most basic rules of environmental and health protection, leading to a high impact on the health and quality of life for citizens. In this context, this chapter addresses green victimisation in the international waste industry through the study of secondary sources. To do so, first, it briefly presents the dynamics of international waste industry and the characteristics of waste crime. Next, a critical assessment of the consequences of these activities is made through two case studies: ship scrapping and e-waste recycling industries in the Global South. In this regard, three issues are discussed: environmental damage; human victimisation from a gender perspective; and social harm.
The gendered dynamics of the climate crisis are becoming more widely recognised. However, this has primarily been in relation to how women are being disproportionately impacted; there has been less discussion about the disproportionate role that men and masculinities play in contributing to it – something which is of much relevance to green criminology. For example, on average men have larger carbon footprints than women, express less concern about climate change, and are more likely to work in the most environmentally destructive industries. The socioeconomic systems which have brought about the climate crisis, as well as the meagre policy responses to it to date, have been led predominantly by men, and influenced substantially by masculinist logics. Indeed, as with other forms of environmental harm, global heating can be seen as closely connected to forms of men’s violence. Yet it should also be recognised that some men contribute to climate change much more than others (such as wealthy men in the Global North), and many also practice care for the environment. This chapter will provide an overview of why critical studies on men and masculinities should be central to green criminology and to understanding and tackling the ecocide that is global heating.
