Deleuze And Environmental Damage ― Violence of the Text

To explore the socio-ecological impact of categories and thresholds used to map and transform forest terrain, Halsey (U. of Melbourne and Flinders U. of South Australia) applies the ideas of French post-structuralists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to Goolengook, the longest running forest conflict to occur in Australia since European settlement. Writing from a criminology and socio-legal perspective, he looks at how such terms as harm, sustainability, ecological significant, value, and right have been coded, decoded, and recoded by various means at various times with particular results. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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.