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

• Main Author: Avi Brisman
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Queensland University of Technology 2019-02-01
• Series: International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
• Subjects: climate change; fables; green cultural criminology; heritage studies; migration; narrative criminology; green criminology
• Online Access: https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/952

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.