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Redefining Genocide

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Language
English
Published
2016
  • Genocide
  • Sociological aspects
  • Ecology
  • Moral and ethical aspects
  • Genocide & ethnic cleansing

"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."--Publisher's website.