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Postcolonial legacies continue to impact upon the Global South and
this edited collection examines their influence on systems of
policing, security management and social ordering. Expanding the
Southern Criminology agenda, the book critically examines social
harms, violence and war crimes, human rights abuses, environmental
degradation and the criminalization of protest. The book asks how
current states of policing came about, their consequences and whose
interests they continue to serve through vivid international case
studies, including prison struggles in Latin America and the misuse
of military force. Challenging current criminological thinking on
the Global South, the book considers how police and state overreach
can undermine security and perpetuate racism and social conflict.
From the social cleansing of cities through to indigenous land
struggles at the frontline of extraction megaprojects, planetary
urbanisation is a contested process that is radically shaping
social life and the sustainability of human civilisation. In this
pioneering intervention, it is maintained that this turbulent
planetary process is also a potent space for state-corporate
criminality. Market manipulation, fraud, corruption, violence and
human rights abuses have become critical spokes in the way space is
being transformed to benefit speculative interests. This book not
only offers investigative data that documents in detail the
intricate ways state and corporate actors collude to profit from
the built environment; it also establishes the tools for building a
research agenda that can interrogate the crimes of urbanisation on
a comparative, longitudinal basis. The author sets out an
investigative methodology which can be appropriated to conduct
probing research into the hidden schemas and forms of collusion
that buttress state-corporate criminality in the urban sphere.
Coupled to this, a theoretical framework is developed for thinking
about the networks, processes and mechanisms at the heart of
property market manipulation, and the broader social relationships
that sustain and reward illicit speculative activity. This book
concludes that researchers and civil society have a critical role
to play in challenging a historical form of planetary urbanisation,
marked by endemic state-corporate criminality, that poses
significant threats to the sustainability of lived communities and
the rich biospheres that they depend upon. This book will be of
interest to criminologists, sociologists, human geographers,
political scientists and those engaged with development studies, as
well as civil society organisations and urban researchers.
This book offers a pioneering window into the elusive workings of
state-corporate crime within the mining industry. It follows a
campaign of resistance organised by indigenous activists on the
island of Bougainville, who struggled to close a Rio Tinto owned
copper mine, and investigates the subsequent state-corporate
response, which led to the shocking loss of some 10,000 lives.
Drawing on internal records and interviews with senior officials,
Kristian Lasslett examines how an articulation of capitalist growth
mediated through patrimonial politics, imperial state-power,
large-scale mining, and clan-based, rural society, prompted an
ostensibly 'responsible' corporate citizen, and liberal state
actors, to organise a counterinsurgency campaign punctuated with
gross human rights abuses. State Crime on the Margins of Empire
represents a unique intervention rooted in a classical Marxist
tradition that challenges positivist streams of criminological
scholarship, in order to illuminate with greater detail the
historical forces faced by communities in the global south caught
in the increasingly violent dynamics of the extractive industries.
From the social cleansing of cities through to indigenous land
struggles at the frontline of extraction megaprojects, planetary
urbanisation is a contested process that is radically shaping
social life and the sustainability of human civilisation. In this
pioneering intervention, it is maintained that this turbulent
planetary process is also a potent space for state-corporate
criminality. Market manipulation, fraud, corruption, violence and
human rights abuses have become critical spokes in the way space is
being transformed to benefit speculative interests. This book not
only offers investigative data that documents in detail the
intricate ways state and corporate actors collude to profit from
the built environment; it also establishes the tools for building a
research agenda that can interrogate the crimes of urbanisation on
a comparative, longitudinal basis. The author sets out an
investigative methodology which can be appropriated to conduct
probing research into the hidden schemas and forms of collusion
that buttress state-corporate criminality in the urban sphere.
Coupled to this, a theoretical framework is developed for thinking
about the networks, processes and mechanisms at the heart of
property market manipulation, and the broader social relationships
that sustain and reward illicit speculative activity. This book
concludes that researchers and civil society have a critical role
to play in challenging a historical form of planetary urbanisation,
marked by endemic state-corporate criminality, that poses
significant threats to the sustainability of lived communities and
the rich biospheres that they depend upon. This book will be of
interest to criminologists, sociologists, human geographers,
political scientists and those engaged with development studies, as
well as civil society organisations and urban researchers.
This book offers a pioneering window into the elusive workings of
state-corporate crime within the mining industry. It follows a
campaign of resistance organised by indigenous activists on the
island of Bougainville, who struggled to close a Rio Tinto owned
copper mine, and investigates the subsequent state-corporate
response, which led to the shocking loss of some 10,000 lives.
Drawing on internal records and interviews with senior officials,
Kristian Lasslett examines how an articulation of capitalist growth
mediated through patrimonial politics, imperial state-power,
large-scale mining, and clan-based, rural society, prompted an
ostensibly 'responsible' corporate citizen, and liberal state
actors, to organise a counterinsurgency campaign punctuated with
gross human rights abuses. State Crime on the Margins of Empire
represents a unique intervention rooted in a classical Marxist
tradition that challenges positivist streams of criminological
scholarship, in order to illuminate with greater detail the
historical forces faced by communities in the global south caught
in the increasingly violent dynamics of the extractive industries.
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