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Ecofeminism Meets Criminology

University of East London, UK

I suggest that law breaking has traditionally been and continues to be an important part of feminist political protest. Law breaking can also be understood as a symbolic act that seeks to challenge the dominant ideas and values in a society. Additionally, as well as challenging the norms of a society, increasingly, ecofeminists are attempting to reconceptualize our relationship with nature. If this challenge is successful and societies start to develop new ways of valuing the environment this will inevitably reflect on criminology. Currently environmental law is anthropocentric (i.e. human centred), however, if the meanings and values that we attach to nature start to change (i.e. become more ecocentric: nature centred) then essentially what currently counts as a criminal act will have to change.

Key Words: crime • ecofeminism • postmodern alliances • symbolic action

Theoretical Criminology, Vol. 2, No. 2, 235-248 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/1362480698002002005


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