Deleuze and Environmental Damage

Mark Halsey is a Lecturer in the Department of Criminology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Criminal Justice Program at the School of Law at Flinders University of South Australia, Australia. His work has appeared in such journals as Theoretical Criminology, British Journal of Criminology and Punishment and Society. Mark has written extensively on the socio-legal construction of environmental harm and has an ongoing interest in discourses of youth offending, violence, graffiti management and crime causation. He is currently immersed in a six year interview based study of young men subjected to repeat periods of incarceration across juvenile and adult custodial spheres. Deleuze and Environmental Damage is his first book.

Contents: Introduction. Modernity and ecological thought: a brief critique; Environment and criminological thought; Ecology and machinic thought: Deleuze/Guattari; Event, method, lexicon; Becoming known; Becoming forest; Becoming contested. On the unsaid: text, nature(s), damage; Conclusion; References; Index.