Moby Dick and the Crimes of the Economy

Ruggiero, Vincenzo

doi:10.1093/bjc/42.1.96

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“…While there is no shortage of fiction on or about climate change and global warming-indeed, the phenomenon of climate change has spurred its own literary genre-'climate fiction' or 'cli-fi' (for a discussion, see, e.g., Johns-Putra 2016; Tuhus-Dubrow 2013)-here, I consider versions of a fable not known necessarily for its moral messages about human-environment relations. Much as Ruggiero (2002) re-read Herman Melville's Moby Dick to illuminate points and issues of interest to green criminologists regarding acceptable and unacceptable economic practices, I allegorise The Three Little Pigs, suggesting how different versions of the fable can be transformed into narratives of climate (in)justice and migration.…”

Section: The Three Little Pigs As a Climate Change Fablementioning

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The Fable of The Three Little Pigs: Climate Change and Green Cultural Criminology

Brisman

2019

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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This paper builds on previous calls for a green cultural criminology that is more attuned to narrative, as well as a narrative criminology that does not limit itself to nonfictional stories of offenders, in two ways. First, it considers how a particular kind of environmental narrative—that of climate change—appears, as well as criticisms thereof. In analysing and assessing existing climate change narratives, this paper contemplates the approach of heritage studies to loss and the (theme of) uncertainty surrounding climate-induced migration and human displacement. Second, this paper allegorises the fable of The Three Little Pigs as a story of climate change migration—an aspect of climate change that is misrepresented (and sometimes missing) in the discourse. This paper concludes with additional arguments for approaching, reading and analysing stories regarding human–human and human–environment relationships.

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Section: The Three Little Pigs As a Climate Change Fablementioning

confidence: 99%