Damien Short

Damien Short is a professor of human rights and environmental justice at the School of Advanced Study of the University of London. ^[1]

Focuses of his research include indigenous rights, genocide studies, and environmental human rights. ^[1] Short is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Human Rights and a member of the International Network of Genocide Scholars. ^{[2] [3]} He is co-director of the Human Rights Consortium and the Environmental Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study. ^[1]

Life and career

Short received an MA and a PhD from the University of Essex, along with an LLB from the University of Wales. ^[3]

He is a judge on the International Rights of Nature Tribunal, a project of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature. ^[4]

Books published by Short include Reconciliation and Colonial Power: Indigenous Rights in Australia (2008) and Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide (2016). ^{[5] [6]}

Works

• Short, Damien (2003). "Reconciliation, Assimilation, and the Indigenous Peoples of Australia". International Political Science Review. 24 (4): 491–513. doi:10.1177/01925121030244005. S2CID   144432933.
• Short, Damien (2005). "Reconciliation and the Problem of Internal Colonialism". Journal of Intercultural Studies. 26 (3): 267–282. doi:10.1080/07256860500153534. S2CID   144864676.
• Short, Damien (2016) [2008]. Reconciliation and Colonial Power: Indigenous Rights in Australia. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-317-07054-2. ^{[7] [8]}
• Short, Damien (2011). "Cultural genocide and indigenous peoples: a sociological approach". Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-315-87464-7.
• Huseman, Jennifer; Short, Damien (2012). "'A slow industrial genocide': tar sands and the indigenous peoples of northern Alberta". The International Journal of Human Rights. 16 (1): 216–237. doi:10.1080/13642987.2011.649593. S2CID   144191921.
• Higgins, Polly; Short, Damien; South, Nigel (2013). "Protecting the planet: a proposal for a law of ecocide" . Crime, Law and Social Change. 59 (3): 251–266. doi:10.1007/s10611-013-9413-6. ISSN   1573-0751. S2CID   254425099.
• Short, Martin Crook, Damien (2015). "Marx, Lemkin and the genocide–ecocide nexus". Climate Change and Genocide. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-315-71487-5.
• Morley, Damien Short, Jessica Elliot, Kadin Norder, Edward Lloyd-Davies, Joanna (2016). "Extreme energy, 'fracking' and human rights: a new field for human rights impact assessments?". Corporate Power and Human Rights. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-315-62280-4.
• Short, Damien (2016). Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   978-1-84813-546-8. ^{[9] [10] [11] [12]}
• Crook, Martin; Short, Damien; South, Nigel (2018). "Ecocide, genocide, capitalism and colonialism: Consequences for indigenous peoples and glocal ecosystems environments" (PDF). Theoretical Criminology. 22 (3): 298–317. doi:10.1177/1362480618787176. S2CID   150239863.
• Short, Damien; Szolucha, Anna (January 2019). "Fracking Lancashire: The planning process, social harm and collective trauma". Geoforum. 98: 264–276. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.03.001 . hdl: 1956/23207 .

References

1. "Professor Damien Short | Institute of Commonwealth Studies".
2. "Learn about the International Journal of Human Rights".
3. "Professor Damien Short | University of London".
4. "Damien Short - Rights of Nature Tribunal". 24 November 2024.
5. Moon, Claire (2010). "Book Review: Damien Short" . Theoretical Criminology. 14: 126–128. doi:10.1177/13624806100140010503.
6. McMichael, Philip (2016). "Book review: Redefining genocide: Settler colonialism, social death and ecocide" . International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 57 (6): 472–474. doi:10.1177/0020715216686849.
7. Duerr, Glen (1 June 2009). "Book Review: Reconciliation and Colonial Power" . Ethnopolitics. 8 (2): 263–266. doi:10.1080/17449050902808524. S2CID   142245070.
8. 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.
9. 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
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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