Damien Short

Redefining Genocide (eBook, ePUB)

Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this highly controversial and original work, Damien Short systematically rethinks how genocide is and should be defined. Rather than focusing solely on a narrow conception of genocide as direct mass-killing, through close empirical analysis of a number of under-discussed case studies - including Palestine, Sri Lanka, Australia and Alberta, Canada - the book reveals the key role played by settler colonialism, capitalism, finite resources and the ecological crisis in driving genocidal social death on a global scale.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783601707
• Artikelnr.: 45464291

Autorenporträt

Dr Damien Short is a Reader in Human Rights at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. He is Director of the School's Human Rights Consortium and Extreme Energy Initiative and Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Human Rights.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Definitional Conundrums: A Sociological Approach to Genocide
2. The Genocide-Ecocide Nexus
3. Palestine
4. Sri Lanka
5. Australia
6. Tar Sands and the Indigenous Peoples of Northern Alberta
7. Looking to the Future: Where to From Here?
Conclusion