Del i serien Critical Issues in Crime and Society

Ordinary and Extraordinary Harms in the City

A Green Criminological Analysis

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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This book, based on original research in Melbourne, Australia, explores the spatial politics of urban expansion both upwards and outwards as the city continues to colonize non-urban areas around its fringes. The everyday decisions and tools bound up in urban growth accelerate a malign colonization of land, resources, air and water, thereby exacerbating a broad variety of social and environmental harms. In addition to the quotidian nature of urban growth, this book also explores the 'crisis' in the form of extreme fire events in urban areas. Moving between local planning and national and international climate change mitigation policies and approaches, this book highlights various 'necropolicies' - policies causing harm and death to more-than-human populations. Such death-bound policies are the result of neoliberal urban development, fueled by state-corporate relations and prosperity concerns. In sum, this book connects green and urban criminology, urban studies and planning to reveal how ordinary and extraordinary challenges are entangled in urban design, harm and, most importantly, imagining alternative futures and cities.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-08
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Issues in Crime and Society
Antal sidor218
FörlagRutgers University Press
ISBN9781978846579

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"Lundberg's book begins with a bike ride—a tour de force, not a pootle...with stunning insights and exhilarating theoretical switchbacks that leave us with a better appreciation of the harms of rapid urbanization. Her exquisite detail and effortless writing render us breathless…." - Avi Brisman, author of Climate Change as a Crisis of Imagination"So many of the harms of city life have become so completely normalised that they fall under our radar. Lundberg rattles us out of our slumber by providing a blistering critique of the structural forces that bake in urban inequality. A clarion call for new urban imaginaries needed right now." - David Bissell, author of Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities"This book is essential reading for green and urban criminologists, as well as for anyone interested in urban life and sustainability in the context of an urgent and worsening climate crisis." - Anna Di Ronco, Department of Legal Studies, University of Bologna, Italy