Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide

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Bloomsbury Publishing, 15 jun 2016 - 268 páginas
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.
 

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Introduction
1
a sociological approach to genocide
13
2 The genocideecocide nexus
38
3 Palestine
68
4 Sri Lanka
93
5 Australia
127
6 Tar sands and the indigenous peoples of northern Alberta
159
where to from here?
185
Conclusion
194
Notes
198
Bibliography
236
Index
251
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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.

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