This exploratory study develops a “southern green cultural criminology” approach to the prevention of environmental harms and crimes. The main aim is to understand differing cultural representations of nature, including wildlife, present within four Colombian Indigenous communities to evaluate whether they encourage environmentally friendly human interactions with the natural world, and if so, how. The study draws on primary data gathered by the Indigenous authors (peer researchers) of this article via a set of interviews with representatives of these four communities. We argue that the cosmologies that these communities live by signal practical ways of achieving ecological justice and challenging anthropocentrism.

这项探索性研究开发了一种“南方绿色文化犯罪学”方法来预防环境危害和犯罪。主要目的是了解四个哥伦比亚土著社区中自然的不同文化表现，包括野生动物，以评估他们是否鼓励人类与自然世界进行环境友好的互动，如果是，如何鼓励。该研究利用了本文的土著作者（同行研究人员）通过对这四个社区代表的一系列访谈收集的主要数据。我们认为，这些社区赖以生存的宇宙论标志着实现生态正义和挑战人类中心主义的实用方法。