Not in my port: The “death ship” of sheep and crimes of agri-food globalization |
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| Authors: | Wynne Wright Stephen L Muzzatti |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation, and Resource Studies, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA;(2) Department of Sociology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| Abstract: | We examine crime that emerges from the global restructuring of agriculture and food systems by employing the case of the Australian
“Ship of Death,” whereby nearly 58,000 sheep were stranded at sea for almost 3 months in 2003, violating the Western Australia
Animal Welfare Act of 2002. This case demonstrates that the acceleration of transnational trade networks, in the context of
agri-food globalization, victimizes animals and constitutes a crime. Herein, we examine this case in depth and show how economic
restructuring, driven by a “logic of capital” orientation, can exert pressure on the state causing it to fail to enforce its
own regulations and in this way engage in criminal actions.
Wynne
Wright is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University specializing in agri-food systems and political sociology. Her current
interests lie in social change in the agri-food system and it's influence farm families and rural community culture.
Stephen Muzzatti is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada specializing in critical theory, crime, and
the mass media. He is Vice-Chair of the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Critical Criminology. |
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| Keywords: | Agri-food systems Animal welfare Australia Eritrea Globalization MV Cormo Express State crime |
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