Southern Green Criminology

David Rodríguez Goyes is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oslo, Norway. He holds a PhD in criminology from the University of Oslo, Norway. He is a lawyer by training, with postgraduate studies in criminal law and a masters in sociology. His main field of research is green criminology, with a focus on biopiracy. His greatest contribution to the field is in the development of a Southern Green Criminology.

• Part I: Theoretical Pillars of a Southern Science to End Ecological Discrimination 1. Introduction to a Southern Green Criminology 2. Ecological Discrimination, a Science to End Discrimination, and the Science of the Discriminated Against 3. The Two Major Philosophies 4. Green Activist Criminology 5. Green and Southern Criminologies before Green and Southern Criminologies Existed 6. A Stereoscope of Ecological Discrimination Part II. Empirical and Applied Southern Contributions to End Ecological Discrimination 7. Small Voices for the Biggest Question 8. Discourses and Practices in Land-Grabbing  9. The Ever-Increasing Spiral of Biopiracy 10. The Disturbance of the Human-Nonhuman Continuum 11. The Monopolisation of Humans and Their Resistance 12. A Seedbed of Southern Green Criminology

Author David Rodriguez Goyes is an attorney with a PhD in criminology and a researcher in green criminology, specializing in biopiracy. In this book, he offers a detailed overview of the emerging field of green criminology, which evaluates environmental threats and crimes such as land-grabbing, biopiracy, animal exploitation, and the damage of climate change. The book points to the impact of harmful environmental practices and Western ideas of progress that contribute to environmental damage in the Global South. Part 1 explains theory and tenets of green criminology, posits a science to end discrimination, and reveals green criminology’s philosophical basis. Part 2 describes empirical and applied cases demonstrating how to end ecological discrimination in the Global South. The book concludes with a proposal for how to prevent Southern Hemisphere green criminology from losing its relevance and ideas for changing the social dynamics that produce ecological discrimination in the region. Of special note, the book incorporates insights from 20 Indigenous communities in Colombia. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution.