van Uhm Daan P
Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Theor Criminol. 2018 Aug;22(3):384-401. doi: 10.1177/1362480618787170. Epub 2018 Aug 30.
The trade in wildlife is not a new phenomenon. The earliest civilizations were linked to the trade in live animals and parts thereof, from the Egyptian pharaohs to aristocrats in the modern era. This article focuses on the history of the wildlife trade in order to understand the social construction of the value of wildlife. In dynamic social and cultural contexts, the meaning of wildlife changes. Historically, exotic animals and the products thereof were associated with social elites, but today, wildlife attracts people from all walks of life and a wide variety of live animals and products thereof are traded for functional, symbolic and social purposes. Increasing ecocentric and biocentric values in contemporary western society, however, may influence constructed demand patterns for wildlife in the near future. By integrating cultural criminological concepts with the social construction of green crimes, this article aims to understand constructed wildlife consumerism through the ages.
野生动物贸易并非新现象。从埃及法老到现代的贵族，最早的文明就与活体动物及其部分器官的贸易联系在一起。本文聚焦于野生动物贸易的历史，以便理解野生动物价值的社会建构。在动态的社会和文化背景下，野生动物的意义会发生变化。历史上，外来动物及其产品与社会精英联系在一起，但如今，野生动物吸引了各行各业的人，各种各样的活体动物及其产品被用于功能、象征和社会目的而进行交易。然而，当代西方社会中日益增长的生态中心和生物中心价值观，可能会在不久的将来影响对野生动物的既定需求模式。通过将文化犯罪学概念与绿色犯罪的社会建构相结合，本文旨在理解历代既定的野生动物消费主义。
