Abstract
Increasingly, state crime scholarship frames criminality as a social property that attaches to particular illegitimate state practices through a mediated process of struggle from below. Building on this foundation, the following article presents a comparative study of two cases—using a range of primary materials—where sabotage was deployed by social movements to stigmatize, dramatically, illegitimate state–corporate conduct. In order to understand the symbolic and practical significance of this exchange, a theory of indifference will be developed. It will be argued that in the cases observed sabotage acted as a device which social movements could employ to impose a sense of consequence on organizational actors otherwise indifferent to, and alienated from, the significant harms their operations’ produced.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 514-533 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Theoretical Criminology |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 17 Nov 2014 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 1 Nov 2015 |
Keywords
- corporate crime
- ecocide
- human rights
- Marxism
- resistance
- sabotage
- state–corporate crime
- state crime
- war crimes
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Kristian Lasslett
- School of Applied Social and Policy Sc. - Professor
- Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences - Full Professor
Person: Academic