Transversal Harm, Regulation, and the Tolerance of Oil Disasters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4780866 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andreas Kotsakis (0000-0003-1316-2335, Oxford Brookes University, corresponding author), Avi Boukli (0000-0003-4281-1664, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-94 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transnational Environmental Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2047-1025 • E-ISSN: 2047-1033 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s2047102522000346 |
| OpenAlex | W4309700672 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 11 |
Law - through regulation, criminalization and litigation - provides key mechanisms for mitigating the harmful effects of oil disasters. At the same time, these mechanisms also enable the perpetuation of oil disasters under an extractivist imperative. This disaster tolerance is the point of departure for this article's examination of the legal response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster over the last decade. Based on a methodology that combines a social harm approach with the political ecology of Felix Guattari, we firstly present a reconceptualization of harm inflicted by oil corporations across three registers: environment, society, and subjectivity. We subsequently introduce the concept of transversal harm, which allows us to move beyond the criminal and civil damage of corporate crime and negligence and to capture the collective and continuous impact of oil extractivism, as opposed to the exceptional impact of oil disasters. Transversal harm opens new avenues for assigning corporate responsibility and reducing disaster tolerance as the by-product of environmental law
Business · Criminalization · Deepwater horizon · Environmental ethics · Environmental protection · Geography · Harm · Law and economics · Oil spill · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Regulation and Compliance Studies · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
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A Tale of Two Gulfs
Seeing Like an Oil Company
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |