Abstract
The primary argument of this chapter is that state-corporate interests define environmental risk and harm in ways that prop up existing profit-based modes of production (and consumption). In so doing, transgressions against particular groups of people, specific environments and other species occur as a ‘natural’ consequence of systemic pressures and elite decisions. Exploitation of both the human and the non-human is built into the very fabric of dominant constructions of biosecurity and national interest.
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White, R. (2012). Biosecurity and State-Corporate Interests. In: McCulloch, J., Pickering, S. (eds) Borders and Crime. Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283825_7
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