Victimization Devices
Exploring Challenges Facing Litigation-Based Transnational Environmental Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12283288 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sebastián Ureta (0000-0003-3169-4992, corresponding author), Patricio Flores (Alberto Hurtado University), Linda Soneryd (University of Gothenburg) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 161-182 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Legal Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-6639 • E-ISSN: 1461-7390 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0964663919841121 |
| OpenAlex | W2936476928 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 24 |
With the emergence of global mechanism for toxic harm accountability, a transnational environmental justice regime is slowly rising. One of the ways in which its taking form is through transnational litigation schemes where corporations are being locally sued by the alleged victims of their overseas misbehaviours. Using a science and technology studies approach, this article deals with one of the most central components of those schemes: victimization devices. Such concept refers to the highly varied sociotechnical assemblages through which claims about toxic victimhood are mobilized in litigation-based schemes, usually including components such as toxicological evidence and testimonies from the affected people. In order to explore the complexities involved in transnationally mobilizing these devices, this article analyses the lawsuit presented in Sweden by inhabitants of Arica, Chile, against the local mining corporation Boliden for its alleged responsibility in dumping toxic waste near their homes in the late 1980s
Accountability · Business · Corporation · Criminology · Dumping · Economic Justice · Economics · Environmental disaster · Environmental justice · Environmental protection · Harm · International trade · Law and economics · Lawsuit · Political science · Sociology · Sociotechnical system · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Actor-Network Theory and Crime Studies
Toxic Injustice
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Responsibility in Uncertain Times
Toxic Bodies/Toxic Environments
Environmental harm and environmental victims
Is it a Crime to Produce Ecological Disorganization? Why Green Criminology and Political Economy Matter in the Analysis of Global Ecological Harms
Rhetorically Reconfiguring Victimhood and Agency
Pandora's hope
When Local Troubles Become Transnational
Benefits and Burdens of Transnational Campaigns
The criminology of hybrids
An Introduction to Market Devices
Biological Citizenship
Enactments of Expertise
Proxy citizenship and transnational advocacy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |