For a Zemiology of Politics

A zemiology of politics is required in the face disastrous historic, contemporary and future social harms. Focusing on state-led politics, article charts some politically generated or mediated harms: military; ecological economic. These can generate justificatory narratives zemiogenic deceit ignorance. In a political moment authoritarian populism, nativism racism, each feature as part wider processes towards corruption destruction politics. The then suggests potentials healthy fundamental principles for including: subordination crime-centric criminology to historically grounded international zemiology, incorporation agnotological perspectives, an orientation that public, inclusive, reflexive non-fundamentalist.