Transversal Harm, Regulation, and the Tolerance of Oil Disasters., Jan 11, 2022
Lawthrough regulation, criminalization and litigationprovides key mechanisms for mitigating the h... more Lawthrough regulation, criminalization and litigationprovides key mechanisms for mitigating the harmful effects of oil disasters. At the same time, these mechanisms also enable the perpetuation of oil disasters under an extractivist imperative. This disaster tolerance is the point of departure for this article's examination of the legal response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster over the last decade. Based on a methodology that combines a social harm approach with the political ecology of Felix Guattari, we firstly present a reconceptualization of harm inflicted by oil corporations across three registers: environment, society, and subjectivity. We subsequently introduce the concept of transversal harm, which allows us to move beyond the criminal and civil damage of corporate crime and negligence and to capture the collective and continuous impact of oil extractivism, as opposed to the exceptional impact of oil disasters. Transversal harm opens new avenues for assigning corporate responsibility and reducing disaster tolerance as the by-product of environmental law.
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Queer theory and criminology share an interest in questions of deviance and normativity, formal and informal social control, 'othering', social marginality and social harm. Arguably, the regulation of sexual behaviours and gender performance has been an enduring concern in both domains. Despite this, theoretical and empirical work on sex and sexuality, and the debates and concerns of queer theory and queer studies, have been largely insulated from criminology as a discipline, even within its critical strands. Scholars seeking to traverse these disciplines face a number of dilemmas: What does queer mean for criminology and what are the implications of queering the field? How can we avoid an approach that simply adds queer issues and stirs? Is queer criminology merely about incorporating LGBTQ+ populations into established criminological theory? Is it a 'corrective' reading of criminology, demonstrating that existing theories of crime and deviance are already queer? Or does queering criminology lead us to an inevitable disruption of the foundations of criminology? What are the potential connections, overlaps and tensions between queer approaches and other critical traditions, such as feminist, critical race, postcolonial and critical disability theories, vis-à-vis criminology? Do criminology and criminal justice need queering, and does queer theory need the criminological? With these questions in mind the aim of this special issue is to advance dialogue between queer theory, queer studies, and criminology. The special issue is concerned with the theoretical dimensions of queering criminology and its implications for the broader field. We invite both through theoretical discussions and articles that make use of these insights and debates in empirical and applied research. Potential strands of inquiry might include, but are not limited to: • Considerations of what is at stake in claims for 'queer criminology' as a new subfield or discipline; • Interrogating gaps between queer theory and criminological theories; • The implications of queer methodologies for criminological research; • Queer analysis of desire, pleasure and power in relation to questions of social harm and violence; • Intersectional queer analyses of structural harms and social justice, drawing on feminist, critical race, post-colonial, trans and/or critical disability studies; • Queer visions of justice, anti-carceral and abolitionist feminist imaginations, and transformative justice responses to violence and harm; • Critiques of homonationalism, homonormativity, pink capitalism and social harm; • Trans, gender non-conforming and non-binary experiences of justice, social control and marginalisation. • Exploring what queer theory offers to contemporary criminological issues and debates (e.g. sexual and gendered violence, state crime and borders, austerity and corporate harm, mass incarceration, transitional justice, historic injustices such as reparations for slavery)
Comprising two parts, the first explores the relationship between crime and harm and criminology and zemiology, and the second explores the intersections of crime and harm through various lenses, including those trained on probation; global mobility; sexuality and gender; war and gendered violence; fashion counterfeiting; and the harms of the service economy. An exciting and wide-reaching volume written by world-renowned scholars, this collection is a must-read for students, academics, and policy makers in the fields of law, criminology, sociology, social policy, criminal justice, and social justice.