Overview
- Uses a critical (green) criminology approach to ask challenging questions about possible human extinction
- Examines humans' past, present and future causes of destruction and extinction
- Explores human survival in space
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology (PSGC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book sketches out how the criminological lens could be used in the climate change debate around possible human extinction. It explores the extent to which the human species can be considered deviant in relation to other species of the contemporary biosphere, as humans seem to be the only species on Earth that does not live in natural balance with their environment (anymore). It discusses several unsettling topics in the public debate on climate change, specifically the taboo of how humans may not survive the ongoing climate change. It includes chapters on the Earth’s history of mass-extinctions, the global state of denial including toward the possibility that the human species could go extinct, and it considers humans' future as a deviant, fatal species outside of Earth, in outer-space, possibly on other planets. It puts forward and enriches the critical criminological tradition by conceptualizing and setting an unsettling tone within criminology and criminological research on the human species and our extinction, by daring criminologists (and victimologists) to ponder and seek empirical answers to controversial imaginations and questions about our possible extinction.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Yarin Eski is Assistant Professor in Public Administration and Co-Director of the Resilience, Security & Civil Unrest (ReSCU) R&I Lab at the Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD from the University of Glasgow in 2015 and previously lectured at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Yarin is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Criminology of the Human Species
Book Subtitle: Setting an Unsettling Tone
Authors: Yarin Eski
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36092-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36091-6Published: 11 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36094-7Due: 11 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36092-3Published: 10 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-269X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2703
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 142
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Critical Criminology, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Victimology, Ecology, Comparative Psychology