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Before starting the gardening project, I believed that it would be very easy. Over the years, I have seen my family garden and always believed that it was easy to do. My reasoning behind this is that my Grandpa and grandma have been doing it their whole lives in India and brought their skill sets here to Canada. Another reason is that they make gardening look like a cake walk and do it so effortlessly. So, going into the project, I already had a fixed view on gardening and underestimated the art of gardening.<\/span><\/p>\n Before the evening started, my group members and I had to pick seeds we wanted to plant and lay out the garden. This was a shock because of the fact that I thought we would just get random seeds and bury them in the garden and hope for the best. It shook me when I realised I had to choose what seeds I wanted to plant and where I wanted to plant them, as well as the layout that was necessary for the plants. It took me a while to learn how to lay out the garden and to pick what seeds I wanted to plant in my garden. Eventually, I ended up picking my seeds as well as the layout of the garden. However, the layout was done so poorly, luckily Melissa helped me lay out the garden and provided me with seeds that my group and I can use for our project.<\/span><\/p>\n Over the past 3 weeks, I have learned so much about gardening and realised there is so much that goes into gardening and the amount of preparation needed to be successful. Even though I am starting out my gardening journey and still have many more weeks to work on my garden, I can only imagine the challenges yet to come. Though I am scared about my garden not turning out how I wanted to, I am eager to learn and grow my knowledge about gardening, and I want to give my all to this gardening project and have a great garden to show for it.<\/span><\/p>\n Apart from the garden and the gardening project, I have also learned so much about green criminology. I have always known that green criminology is about the environment and how we need to protect the ecosystem, but it is also about how the economy and big name corporations impact greenery in a mostly negative way and how they impose environmental racism on others. It all seemed confusing and very new to me. It also made me question the many new terms that I have learned, as well as the readings that I have read in the class. One thing that stood out to me in this green criminology class is the concept of “treadmill of production,” which I read in Rob White’s green criminology. White explains that our “economy is in constant need of growth and expansion. Because of this demand, it results in “using up” and destroying the natural environment just for profit for many corporations” White, R. (2019). Realising this changed the way I view corporations, but also made me realise that my garden is fighting against as well as resistance to the “treadmill of production”.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Another reading that gave me insight into green criminology is “food crime” outlined by Wesley Tourangeau and Amy Fitzgerald. They point out how industrial agriculture businesses legally inflict massive environmental harm and treat living things as mere commodities for profit. Many big, multi-million, and multinational corporations do this for a profit and end up getting away scot free due to their influence in politics. Tourangeau and Fitzgerald (2020) explain that “using a green criminological lens allows us to examine systemic environmental and social harms even when no explicit laws are being broken”(p. 205)<\/span>. <\/span>It made me realise that green criminology isn’t just about textbook terms, but rather it is about stepping outside, connecting with the land, and trying to practice ecological justice and expand greenery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n *Grammerly was used to spell check as well as format\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Tourangeau, W., & Fitzgerald, A. J. (2019). Food crime and green criminology. In A. Brisman & N. South (Eds.), Routledge international handbook of green criminology<\/em> (pp. 205\u2013217).<\/p>\n White, R. (2018). Critical green criminology. In A. Liebling, S. Maruna, & L. McAra (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of criminology<\/em> (6th ed., pp. 120\u2013129).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Starting small, Growing Big The start Before starting the gardening project, I believed that it would be very easy. Over the years, I have seen my family garden and always believed that it was easy to do. My reasoning behind this is that my Grandpa and grandma have been doing it their whole lives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1513,"featured_media":719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-published"],"splot_meta":{"author":"Anveer","license":"","footer":"References: White, R. (2018). Critical green criminology. In A. Liebling, S. Maruna, & L. McAra (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of criminology (6th ed., pp. 120\u2013129). 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Connecting to Green Criminology<\/b><\/h3>\n
Reference<\/b><\/h3>\n