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A Visual Approach for Green Criminology

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-54668-5

ISBN: 978-1-137-54667-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 15, 2016

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Green Criminology with Eyes Wide Open

Natali, Lorenzo

Pages: 1 –14

[The research questions of today’s green criminologists require a multiplicity of conceptual approaches and methods of inquiry. In this chapter, I share some reflections designed to open the way for new visual explorations of environmental harms and crimes from an emergent criminological...
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A Case of Organic Relationship between City and Contamination

Natali, Lorenzo

Pages: 15 –29

[In this chapter, I examine Huelva, a town in southern Spain, heavily polluted by a huge industrial and chemical plant built during the 1960s in close proximity to the town. This case of environmental crime is guided by questions such as: How do people live and give a meaning to their experiences...
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Ways of Looking at the Elephant in the Room: A First Visual Exploration

Natali, Lorenzo

Pages: 31 –49

[This chapter starts with a detailed examination of the explorative phase involved in my empirical research. In this part, I flesh out the theoretical and methodological frames of this proposal for visual research. While retaining as the centre of analysis the single case study, which was the...
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Ways of Seeing the Elephant in the Room: Images and Words

Natali, Lorenzo

Pages: 51 –77

[In this chapter, I describe how photo elicitation can serve as a new source of qualitative data in environmental research and how it is crucial in promoting narratives about social perceptions of contamination. I also explain how photographs are decisive in becoming a reflexive and collaborative...
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What Do You Mean When You Show and Say This? Where Does It Take You?

Natali, Lorenzo

Pages: 79 –88

[This chapter describes how coming into contact with the narratives of environmental victims—promoted by the use of photography—helps to develop different forms of reflexivity also useful for imagining and confronting the present environmental crisis. This challenge cannot really be undertaken...
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Imaging Visual Methods for Green Criminology

Natali, Lorenzo

Pages: 89 –99

[The interaction between what we observe and the words used to describe our observations produces reciprocal understandings. In this chapter, I describe some theoretical and methodological principles for the use of the photographic image as a method of researching environmental crimes and harms—a...
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Conclusion: A Possible Way Out

Natali, Lorenzo

Pages: 101 –116

[In this chapter, I suggest that visual research in green criminology may help (1) in exploring the silent knowledge of social actors of different social, cultural and ecological contexts; and (2) in bridging cultural and natural worlds, thereby crossing the dichotomous divide between what is...

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