Material Crimes is what happens when ‘true crime’ meets ‘academic research.’ Like a detective, each episode’s narrator follows the trail of a different infrastructural crime, grounded in a specific site, with its own particular history. But whether the focus is an electricity grid, a prison, a trainline or a mine, in a neighbourhood in London, South Africa’s urban slums, or a military base in Cuba, contributors explain how infrastructures maintain and perpetuate uneven and violent systems of conquest, resource extraction and profit-making.  As a whole, the series takes a deep dive into the material crimes that shape the lives of colonised, racialised and marginalised communities everywhere, and how they are mobilising for different, liberationist futures.