Fast Fashion: A Case of Social Harm and State‐Corporate Crime

Simončič, Katja

doi:10.1111/hojo.12435

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“…For instance, Raymen and Smith (2019) explore the social harm caused by the environmental effects of commodified leisure and Short and Szolucha (2019) consider the “collective trauma” done to communities by energy extraction. Similarly, Simončič (2021) has focused on harms caused by fast fashion through inadequate protection of workers’ health and safety. Others (e.g., Canning & Tombs, 2021) have focused on the ways in which conventional criminologies serve to regulate particular groups, bolstering ideologies of control because the minor reforms they offer have expanded and strengthened states and corporations.…”

Section: Ethics As Harm Avoidancementioning

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Ethical Principles, Social Harm and the Economic Relations of Research: Negotiating Ethics Committee Requirements and Community Expectations in Ethnographic Research in Rural Malawi

Ansell

Mwathunga

Hajdú

et al. 2022

Qualitative Inquiry

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Conventional research ethics focus on avoidance of harm to individual participants through measures to ensure informed consent. In long-term ethnographic research projects involving multiple actors, however, a wider concept of harm is needed. We apply the criminological concept of social harm, which focuses on harm produced through and affecting wider social relations, to a research project that we undertook in Malawi. Through this, we show how structural economic inequalities shape the consequences of research for the differently positioned parties involved. Specifically, we focus on dilemmas around transferring resources within three social fields: our relations with a Malawian ethics committee; our interventions in a rural community; and our efforts to engage the policy community. Each of these involved multiple and differently placed individuals within broader, multi-scalar structural relations and reveals the inadequacies of conventional codes of ethics.

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Section: Ethics As Harm Avoidancementioning

confidence: 99%

Ethical Principles, Social Harm and the Economic Relations of Research: Negotiating Ethics Committee Requirements and Community Expectations in Ethnographic Research in Rural Malawi

Ansell

Mwathunga

Hajdú

et al. 2022

Qualitative Inquiry

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State-corporate legal symbiosis and social harm: the case of the steel factory ‘Ilva’ in Taranto, Italy

Nicoli Aldini

2024

Crime Law Soc Change

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For more than a decade, epidemiological surveys have shown that Taranto, Italy, has a critical health situation. In particular, two epidemiological reports have established a causal link between mortality and morbidity in Taranto and the industrial production of Ilva, one of Europe’s largest steel mills. Despite its negative impact on local health, Ilva has been allowed to produce thanks to a favorable legal framework. In particular, this article focuses on seven years central to the recent history of Ilva (2011–2017), in which the state has engaged in frenetic and compulsive lawmaking aimed to establish a favorable legal environment for Ilva to continue producing. It shows how the law has become an avenue for the Italian state and Ilva to establish a symbiotic relationship that has created the conditions to produce and reproduce harmful corporate practices. These laws are presented in juxtaposition with academic research and epidemiological surveys on Taranto’s public health, thus showing how the Italian state has responded to the increasing amount of evidence of corporate harm done in Taranto. The article contributes to the criminological scholarship on state-corporate crime and social harm by discussing the role of state law in the production and reproduction of harmful corporate practice. It also advances the literature on the Ilva case with a novel socio-legal reading of the socioenvironmental conflict ongoing in Taranto.

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Fast Fashion: A Case of Social Harm and State‐Corporate Crime

Cited by 2 publications

References 61 publications

Ethical Principles, Social Harm and the Economic Relations of Research: Negotiating Ethics Committee Requirements and Community Expectations in Ethnographic Research in Rural Malawi

Ethical Principles, Social Harm and the Economic Relations of Research: Negotiating Ethics Committee Requirements and Community Expectations in Ethnographic Research in Rural Malawi

State-corporate legal symbiosis and social harm: the case of the steel factory ‘Ilva’ in Taranto, Italy

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