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- Examines how the media represents the vanishing arctic and how this affects our sense of urgency for change
- Offers an innovative approach to studying socially-mediated forms of representation and knowledge
- Proposes that scene-thinking can help science communicators grapple with the problems of scale associated with representing climate change
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture (PSCMC)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book compares and contrasts traditional crime scenes with scenes of climate crisis to offer a more expansive definition of crime which includes environmental harm. The authors reconsider what crime scenes have always included and might come to include in the age of the Anthropocene – a new geological era where humans have made enough significant alterations to the global environment to warrant a fundamental rethinking of human-nonhuman relations. In each of the chapters, the authors reframe enduringly popular Arctic scenes, such as iceberg hunting, cruising and polar bear watching, as specific criminal anthroposcenes. By reading climate scenes in this way, the authors aim to productively deploy the representation of crime to make these scenes more engaging to policymakers and ordinary viewers. Criminal Anthroposcenes brings together insights from criminology, climate change communication, and tourism studies in order to study the production and consumptionof media representations of Arctic climate change in the hope of to mobilizing more urgent public and policy responses to climate change.
Reviews
“Lam has produced a tour de force in an emerging criminology in the age of the Anthropocene. Her accomplishment conjures up terms like ‘eloquence’,’ innovative’, ‘transformative’, and ‘epiphany’; a criminology of earthlings as actants entangled in ‘cascading effects’; thank you, Anita Lam, for nurturing a new, and much needed, criminological imagination” (Professor Clifford Shearing, Universities of Cape Town, Griffith and Montreal)
“This is a ground-breaking book. Drawing authoritatively and creatively on a range of cultural and social theories, it connects two seemingly disparate issues: climate change and crime scenes. We are given the unexpected but compelling argument that a noir aesthetic born in 19th century crime scene photography has come to shape our visual imaginary of climate crisis: a criminal ‘Anthroposcene’. Rigorously applying cultural analysis and environmental studies this work expands the vision of a Green Criminology, providing us new theoreticaland methodological tools to see, and act on ecological catastrophe” (Professor Sarah Armstrong, University of Glasgow)
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Social Science, York University, Toronto, Canada
Anita Lam, Matthew Tegelberg
About the authors
Anita Lam is Associate Professor of Criminology at York University, Canada. Her research has appeared in Time & Society, Law Text Culture, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, and in several edited collections.
Matthew Tegelberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University, Canada. He is a research associate with MediaClimate, an international network of researchers that have been studying global climate change communication since 2009.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Criminal Anthroposcenes
Book Subtitle: Media and Crime in the Vanishing Arctic
Authors: Anita Lam, Matthew Tegelberg
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46004-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46003-7Published: 10 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46006-8Published: 10 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46004-4Published: 09 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-3912
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3920
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 260
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Crime and the Media, Critical Criminology, Culture and Technology, Environmental Communication, Environmental Geography, Sociology, general