Green Criminology and Social Justice: A Reexamination of the Lynemouth Plant Closing and the Political Economic Causes of Environmental and Social Injustice

被引:3
作者
Lynch, Michael J. [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ S Florida, Dept Criminol, SOC 107, Tampa, FL 33620 USA
[2] Univ S Florida, Patel Sch Global Sustainabil, Tampa, FL 33620 USA
关键词
green criminology; aluminum plant closure; ecological disorganization; environmental justice; environmental sociology; global aluminum production; political economy; social justice; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC-HYDROCARBONS; ISCHEMIC-HEART-DISEASE; DIBENZO-P-DIOXINS; SULFUR-DIOXIDE; AIR-POLLUTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; NITRIC-OXIDE; CARDIOPULMONARY MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL-EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS;
D O I
10.1177/0896920515598563
中图分类号
C91 [社会学];
学科分类号
030301 ; 1204 ;
摘要
Pamela Ann Davies argues that the closure of the Lynemouth, UK, aluminum smelter generated adverse social justice impacts and was caused by the adoption of green state policies. She employs that argument to critique green criminology for promoting adverse social justice impacts. Here, we reanalyze the Lynemouth plant closure. First, this reanalysis illustrates the various social and environmental forms of injustice the plant generated, especially its adverse human, nonhuman and ecological health consequences. Second, the closure is reassessed from a political economic perspective that places the plant closure within the context of global capitalist plant closures in the aluminum industry. That review notes that plant closures and deindustrialization in developed economies are now a common occurrence driven by economic concerns, not environmental policies. We point out that social injustice as well as ecological destruction are often created by the normal operation of capitalism, and that those consequences should not be overlooked.
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页码:449 / 464
页数:16
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