Southern Green Criminology
Join us for our eighth webinar as part of the Security and Justice Futures series which aims to confront the dilemmas, re-imaginings and futures of security and justice from a cross-regional perspective.
SPS / Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research
Date: Tuesday 03 June 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: Online
Category: Academic events
Speaker: Dr David R. Goyes, University of Oslo.
You are warmly invited to the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research's forthcoming webinar as part of our Security and Justice Futures series which will be led by Dr David R. Goyes, University of Oslo.
Join us on Tuesday 3 June, 1pm (UK time) when David will present his paper, ‘Southern Green Criminology’ followed by Dr Annette Hübschle, University of Cape Town, who will act as the discussant for the webinar.
Abstract
Southern green criminology is concerned with the socio-criminological study of environmental crime in the global South, while being attentive to 1) the legacy of colonisation and North–South and core–periphery divides in the production of environmental crime, 2) the epistemological contributions of the marginalised, impoverished and oppressed and 3) the particularities of the contexts of the global South.
This presentation will address how the unequal distribution of economic, political, epistemological, and aesthetic capital between the global North and the global South upon the colonisation of the Americas has significantly shaped contemporary dynamics of environmental crime and harm.
Biography
David R. Goyes is a Colombo-Norwegian researcher at the University of Oslo. Goyes holds a PhD in criminology from the same university. He has contributed extensively to the study of North-South global relations, environmental conflicts, and Indigenous issues. Goyes is editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy and a member of several editorial boards. Goyes has a long publication record with English, Portuguese, and Spanish titles. His first sole-authored book, Southern Green Criminology (Emerald), was published in 2019. In 2023, he co-authored, with Katja Franko, Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo, and in 2025 Toward a Global Life-Course Criminology: Trajectories of Crime in Latin America with Sveinung Sandberg (both published by Oxford University Press). Goyes is the recipient of the 2024 Critical Criminologist of the Year award from the American Society of Criminology and the 2024 Highly Commended Article of the Year award from the Sociological Review.
This webinar is the eighth of a series of bi-monthly webinars entitled Security and Justice Futures which aim to confront the dilemmas, re-imaginings and futures of security and justice from a cross-regional perspective. Drawing from a range of speakers from north and south contexts, the series seeks to engage with both academic and practitioner audiences to encourage a mutual dialogue on the futures of security and justice in diverse contexts.
The series is co-sponsored by: The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research | The Kenyan National Crime Research Centre | The Global Risk Governance Programme | The Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies.