Green Criminological Dialogues: Voices from Oceania
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University of Oslo
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University of Essex United Kingdom
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Auckland University of Technology New Zealand
Abstract
This collection intends to engage in a productive dialogue with a sample of ways of knowing and being in Oceania. Some of the articles illustrate localised understandings of the dynamics that generate injustice and erode distinctive cultures in the continent (Kingi-Thomas, Hata, & Deckert; Vachette & McKinley), while others present cosmologies of resistance (Arnt; Hamilton; Whitehead & Doornbos). All articles in the collection—as well as all knowledge produced in and about Oceania—must be read with the trajectory of colonialism in mind. Colonialism has altered most social dynamics in the region and largely reshaped its ecosystems. As called upon by diverse voices in decolonial, global, and Southern criminologies, conflict, crime, and resistance in the Global South must be linked to colonialism and coloniality.
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Author Biographies
David R. Goyes is a senior researcher at the University of Oslo in Norway. He has contributed extensively to the study of North-South global relations, ecological violence, trauma and memory, and Indigenous rights and knowledge. He is the author of Southern Green Criminology (Emerald, 2019) and co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. In 2024, Goyes received the ‘Critical Criminologist of the Year Award’ from the American Society of Criminology and the ‘Highly Commented Article of the Year Award’ from the Sociological Review
Nigel South is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Criminology, University of Essex, UK, and has written on environmental harms, ecocide and Indigenous communities in various co-produced works, including Water, Crime and Security in the Twenty-First Century (2018, Palgrave), Handbook of Green Criminology (2020, Routledge), and Monstrous Nature and Representations of Environmental Harms (2025, Temple). He has received awards from the British Society of Criminology and the American Society of Criminology, Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice.
Dr Antje Deckert (German, tauiwi) is an Associate Professor in Criminology at Auckland University of Technology in Aotearoa New Zealand. Collaborating with like-minded scholars across the globe, she seeks to push the edges of criminology from decolonizing to moving beyond it. She is co-editor-in-chief of Decolonization of Criminology and Justice; co-editor of Neo-colonial injustice and the mass imprisonment of Indigenous women (2020) and The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice (2023); and serves on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Theory of Change, New York City.