1st Edition

Punishment New Trajectories in Law

By Sabrina Gilani Copyright 2026
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

This book expands the growing field of punishment ecology and advances an environmental theory of punishment that centralises Nature as a political force capable of exercising penal power. In dialogue with posthumanist and new materialist thought, Punishment unsettles Western philosophy’s casting of nature as a passive, inert backdrop to human action. Instead, it foregrounds a Nature that... Read more

1. What Is Punishment 2. Posthuman Bodies and Lively Nature 3. Fungal Normativity and Prisoner Disease 4. (Capital) Punishment in the Chemosphere Conclusion

Biography

Sabrina Gilani is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Sussex in Brighton, U.K.