The Genocide-Ecocide Nexus

Damien Short is Director of the Human Rights Consortium (HRC) and Professor of Human Rights and Environmental Justice at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. He has spent his entire professional career working in the field of human rights, both as a scholar and human rights advocate and activist. He has researched and published extensively in the areas of indigenous peoples’ rights, genocide studies, reconciliation projects and environmental human rights. He is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Human Rights. Martin Crook is Associate Lecturer at Roehampton University and a PhD Candidate at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. His research interests include human rights and the ecological crisis, the political economy of genocide and ecocide, energy harms and development. He is Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Human Rights.

Introduction 1. Developmentalism and the Genocide- Ecocide Nexus 2. The Genocide- Ecocide Nexus in Sudan: Violent “Development” and the Racial- Spatial Dynamics of (Neo)Colonial- Capitalist Extraction 3. The Politics of Ecocide, Genocide and Megaprojects: Interrogating Natural Resource Extraction, Identity and the Normalization of Erasure 4. Green Criminology and State- Corporate Crime: The Ecocide- Genocide Nexus with Examples from Nigeria 5. The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE): An Ecologically Induced Genocide of the Malind Anim 6. “We Won’t Survive in a City. The Marshes are Our Life”: An Analysis of Ecologically Induced Genocide in the Iraqi Marshes 7. The Colonial Reproduction of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Violence Against Indigenous Peoples for Land Development Postscript: Call to Action - The Climate Emergency: A Statement from Genocide Scholars on the Necessity for a Paradigm Shift