Environmental victims and resistance to state crime through transnational activism

In the specific area of environmental harm, state crime generally pertains to corruption and the misuse of public office for private gain, ignoring sustainability limits in industries such as forestry and fishing for the sake of financial advantage, inadequate regulation such as lack of response to environmental pollution or other harms, and the covering up or systemic denial of harms caused by state agencies or by private companies closely aligned with state elites (see White, 2009, 2010). [...] their specific self-interests, as survivors and victims, must be acknowledged. * Transnational environmental activism demands participation of the committed "ideological" activist and those activists created in the crucible of environmental harm and human survival. * Debate will inevitably occur in regard to the adoption of what are deemed to be suitable or appropriate tactics of dissent, given the labeling of certain actions as ecoterrorist rather than civic engagement.