Duffy, R. orcid.org/0000-0002-6779-7240, Hutchinson, A. orcid.org/0000-0003-1535-4154, Iordachescu, G. orcid.org/0000-0002-6289-6581 et al. (1 more author) (2025) A harms-based political ecology: understanding harms through the wildlife trade. Journal of Political Ecology, 32 (1). 6226. ISSN: 1073-0451
Abstract
In this article, we examine how political ecology can benefit from greater engagement with green criminology's focus on harms. We do so by developing a harms-based political ecology, which is a useful lens through which to analyze global environmental change. It is essential to understand how harms are produced and sustained, and what impacts they have on people and wildlife. This article examines the wildlife trade in Europe focusing on brown bears, European eels and songbirds. In particular, the article analyzes how harms are produced in the context of global capitalism, unequal power relations and interconnected global crises. Through this analysis the article develops the field of political ecology by encouraging approaches that fully address harms to non-human animals. This harms-based approach builds on current justice perspectives within green criminology that emphasize anthropocentric, biocentric, and ecocentric concepts of justice to expand concepts of victimhood and harm.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | political ecology; green criminology; wildlife trade; harms; anthropocentrism; biocentrism; ecocentrism |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations |
Date Deposited: | 03 Oct 2025 11:02 |
Last Modified: | 03 Oct 2025 11:02 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Arizona |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.2458/jpe.6226 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:232527 |