Publisher's Synopsis
Damian Short systematically rethinks how academia currently characterises genocide and how it actually should define it in the future. He uses close empirical analysis of several controversial yet underdiscussed case studies worldwide, such as Palestine, Sri Lanka, Australia, and Alberta's Tar Sands. With intense examination of topical issues - such as fracking, environmental destruction, and the West Bank settlements - he reveals the key roles that settler colonialism, capitalism, finite resources, and the ecological crisis play in driving genocidal social death on a global scale.
