This panel will look at narrative and the intersection of nature literature and crime in various geographies. Long dominated by accounts of wildlife poaching and illegal logging, new realities of organized crime require new frameworks and literatures for public understanding. Increasingly, the dynamics of crime and place have become supercharged as criminal networks commercialize vaster swaths of nature. The panelists examine local ties and long-distance markets that shape new geographies of crime.

This panel of up to four panelists will explore geographies of environmental …