ABSTRACT
With an intellectual debt to Frank Pearce, this chapter incorporates theories regarding globalization, social structures of accumulation and social sources of power into a conceptual framework for analysing enclosures and expulsions as routine elements of capital accumulation in the neoliberal era. It applies this framework to three specific registers: the spatial, the public sector and the biosopheric. In doing so, it suggests that analyses of crimes of power must reach beyond studies of specific wrongful acts within monochromatic institutional settings. Rather, these analyses are best deepened by examining how specific social injuries are generated and sustained through the intersection of economic, political and ideological power. It concludes by suggesting that the current neoliberal order is in decline and that although its replacement is unknown, key changes will reflect shifts in intersections of power that currently characterize the increasingly troubled neoliberal social structures of accumulation (SSA).
