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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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A startlingly original work that demonstrates how and why genocide studies has so far failed to sufficiently engage with settler colonialism, ecocide and capitalism as key drivers of genocides
Author Biography
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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Zed Books is a critical and dynamic publisher, committed to increasing awareness of important international issues and to promoting diversity, alternative voices and progressive social change. We publish on politics, development, gender, the environment and economics for a global audience of students, academics, activist and general readers. Run as a workers’ collective, Zed Books aims to operate in an ethical and environmentally sustainable way. Autumn 2016 catalogue
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- Publisher Zed Books
- Publication Date June 2016
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781842779316
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 19.99 GBP
- Pages224
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Edition1
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