Political economy

Dark waters

Dark Waters is a 2019 American legal thriller film directed by Todd Haynes and written by Mario Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan. The story dramatizes Robert Bilott's case against the chemical manufacturing corporation DuPont after they contaminated a town with unregulated chemicals.

Legitimizing Corporate Harm. The Discourse of Contemporary Agribusiness

This book utilizes critical discourse analysis to illuminate the ways in which one of the largest agribusinesses in operation, Tyson Foods, disguises their actions whilst simultaneously presenting the image of a benign, good corporate citizen. …

The Treadmill of Crime: Political Economy and Green Criminology (New Directions in Critical Criminology)

Drawing on the work of Allan Schnaiberg, this book returns political economy to green criminology and examines how the expansion of capitalism shapes environmental law, crime and justice. The book is organized around crimes of ecological withdrawals …

Militarization and Energy Consumption. A Test of Treadmill of Destruction Theory in Comparative Perspective

This article examines the impact of nations' military establishments on energy consumption, utilizing the treadmill of destruction theory within a comparative international perspective. Results of cross-national fixed effects panel models indicate …

The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics

Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions and threatens the world’s most diverse ecosystems. Much of this deforestation is driven by illegal logging. We use novel satellite data that tracks annual deforestation …

Up in Smoke: The Human Ecology and Political Economy of Coal Consumption

Structural human ecology, ecological modernization theory, and international political economy perspectives are engaged to assess the extent to which coal consumption is influenced by various demographic factors, socioeconomic characteristics, and …