The Monopolisation of Humans and Their Resistance

Abstract

Summary

Humans are a key component of the earth system. Through our interactions with nature, we have irreversibly altered and damaged all components of the system, ourselves included. Usually, fields other than green criminology focus on human exploitation and trafficking; but, in this chapter, I show how environmental discourses and practices are used to justify the exploitation and monopolisation of humans. I examine the dynamics by which Southern communities are monopolised by Northern corporations. I also explore Southern forms of resistance to ecological discrimination such as land grabs, biopiracy and animal abuse. I finish the chapter with an analysis of the threat posed by culturism to Southern resistance.

Citation

Goyes, D.R. (2019), "The Monopolisation of Humans and Their Resistance", Southern Green Criminology: A Science to End Ecological Discrimination (Perspectives on Crime, Law and Justice in the Global South), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 111-120. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-229-920191011