Overview
- A unique analysis of policing as a central driver of climate change and ecocide
- Offers a novel, case study-based approach to this important topic
- An invaluable reference for researchers interested in the links between environmental conflict and policing
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Hydrocarbon Militarization
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Enforcing Extraction
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Policing Ecosystems
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Looking Forward
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About this book
Policing and ecological crises – and all the inequalities, discrimination, and violence they entail – are pressing contemporary problems. Ecological degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate change threaten local communities and ecosystems, and, cumulatively, the planet as a whole. Police brutality, wars, paramilitarism, private security operations, and securitization more widely impact people – especially people of colour – and habitats. This edited collection explores their relationship, and investigates the numerous ways in which police, security, and military forces intersect with, reinforce, and facilitate ecological and climate catastrophe. Employing a case study-based approach, the book examines the relationships and entanglements between policing and ecosystems, revealing the intimate connection between political violence and ecological degradation.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alexander Dunlap is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. His work has critically examined police-military transformations, market-based conservation, wind energy development and extractive projects more generally in both Latin America and Europe. He is the author of two books: Renewing Destruction: Wind Energy Development, Conflict and Resistance in a Latin American Context (2019, Rowman & Littlefield) and The Violent Technologies of Extraction (2020, Palgrave).
Andrea Brock is a lecturer at the Department of International Relations, Centre for Global Political Economy and STEPS Centre at the University of Sussex. Her work examines a wide range of techniques and technologies to manage anti-extractive projects, including criminalisation and co-option of dissent and greenwashing. She is interested in political ecologies of mining, corporate power, and statism.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Enforcing Ecocide
Book Subtitle: Power, Policing & Planetary Militarization
Editors: Alexander Dunlap, Andrea Brock
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99646-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99645-1Published: 01 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99648-2Published: 02 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99646-8Published: 30 June 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 336
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Human Geography, Geography, general, Civil Law, Development Studies