Damien Short

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Damien Short is a professor of human rights and environmental justice that works for the School of Advanced Study. He is also a co-director of the Human Rights Consortium. His research interests include colonialism, genocide, and ecocide. [1]

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References

  1. "Professor Damien Short | University of London". research.london.ac.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  2. Duerr, Glen (1 June 2009). "Book Review: Reconciliation and Colonial Power". Ethnopolitics. 8 (2): 263–266. doi:10.1080/17449050902808524. S2CID   142245070.
  3. Krieken, Robert van (March 2009). "Reconciliation and Colonial Power: Indigenous Rights in Australia". Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. 38 (2): 178–179. doi:10.1177/009430610903800240. S2CID   144168446.
  4. Kößler, R. (2017). Rezension: Damien Short: Redefining Genocide. Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide. [Rezension des Buches Redefining genocide: settler colonialism, social death and ecocide, von D. Short]. PERIPHERIE - Politik, Ökonomie, Kultur, 37(3), 523-526. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-58852-1
  5. McClanahan, Bill (1 September 2018). "Thinking and Doing Green Criminology". Critical Criminology. 26 (3): 443–446. doi:10.1007/s10612-018-9395-x. ISSN   1572-9877. S2CID   254416503.
  6. Docker, John (2017). "Reconceptualising Settler-Colonialism and Genocide with Special Reference to Palestine, Sri Lanka and Australia: Reflections on Damien Short's Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide". Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies. 16 (1): 27–45. doi:10.3366/hlps.2017.0151.
  7. Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide Stevenson, Shaun A.  Studies in Social Justice; Windsor Vol. 11, Iss. 2, (2017): 400. https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/article/view/1523/1486