Police power in green: Furthering political ecologies of the state

The growth of wildlife and environmental crime has catalysed efforts to strengthen state policing better exert control over activities, flows, people that threaten states’ desired socio-ecological orders. expanded role in human-environment relations provokes conceptual empirical imperatives centre political ecology geography scholarship on state-environment relations. This article begins with the question how might account for conceptualise power, doing so can help understand how, where, through what practices institutions states exercise power To capture exerting orders, this brings together insights critical theories police conservation develop concept green. I argue green grounds mechanisms which is exerted ways reflect a broader strengthening power. use multi-scalar ethnographic research examine three processes extend expand green, related These are: 1) expanding law criminality beyond spaces national territory; 2) creating new bodies; 3) traditional policing, enforcement criminal justice institutions. end by outlining connect further ecologies debates