Fear and looting in the periphery: Approaching global crime and harm in (and from) the south(s)

The aim of this working group on Southern perspectives is to enrich analyses from and on the South, while also promoting communication and discussion with other working groups within the European Group.

The working group’s objectives are to:

Radically challenge the discourses, practices and means of legitimisation of global predatory policies.

-Encourage debate on the development of critical southern perspectives on state, corporate crime and social harm, in line with the EG’s commitment to transformation.


-Support radical struggles against colonialism, imperialism and subjugation; and contribute to a radical, emancipatory discourse confronting any academic tolerance of or complicity with any form of depoliticising aggression or injustice.-

-Develop a theoretical political agenda based on a solidarity network against state and corporate criminal policies and punitive control strategies; and

Working Group Coordinators:

Email: fearandlootingeg@gmail.com

Dear EG comrades:

Any person or group willing to get in touch and/or contribute, especially – but not only – from the Mediterranean countries, can reach us at an email specifically created for this: fearandlootingeg@gmail.com

We are waiting for you.

In solidarity