Damien Short
Damien Short is a professor of human rights and environmental justice at the School of Advanced Study of the University of London.{{cite web | url=https://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/people/professor-damien-short | title=Professor Damien Short | Institute of Commonwealth Studies }}
Focuses of his research include indigenous rights, genocide studies, and environmental human rights. Short is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Human Rights and a member of the International Network of Genocide Scholars.{{cite web | url=https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fjhr20/about-this-journal#editorial-board | title=Learn about the International Journal of Human Rights }}{{cite web | url=https://research.london.ac.uk/search/staff/113/professor-damien-short/ | title=Professor Damien Short | University of London }} He is co-director of the Human Rights Consortium and the Environmental Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study.
Life and career
Short received an MA and a PhD from the University of Essex, along with an LLB from the University of Wales.
He is a judge on the International Rights of Nature Tribunal, a project of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature.{{cite web | url=https://www.rightsofnaturetribunal.org/judges/damien-short/ | title=Damien Short - Rights of Nature Tribunal | date=24 November 2024 }}
Books published by Short include Reconciliation and Colonial Power: Indigenous Rights in Australia (2008) and Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide (2016).{{cite journal | url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13624806100140010503?download=true&journalCode=tcra | doi=10.1177/13624806100140010503 | title=Book Review: Damien Short | date=2010 | last1=Moon | first1=Claire | journal=Theoretical Criminology | volume=14 | pages=126–128 | url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal | url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0020715216686849?journalCode=cosa | doi=10.1177/0020715216686849 | title=Book review: Redefining genocide: Settler colonialism, social death and ecocide | date=2016 | last1=McMichael | first1=Philip | journal=International Journal of Comparative Sociology | volume=57 | issue=6 | pages=472–474 | url-access=subscription }}
Works
- {{cite journal |last1=Short |first1=Damien |title=Reconciliation, Assimilation, and the Indigenous Peoples of Australia |journal=International Political Science Review |date=2003 |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=491–513 |doi=10.1177/01925121030244005|s2cid=144432933 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Short |first1=Damien |title=Reconciliation and the Problem of Internal Colonialism |journal=Journal of Intercultural Studies |date=2005 |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=267–282 |doi=10.1080/07256860500153534|s2cid=144864676 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Short |first1=Damien |title=Reconciliation and Colonial Power: Indigenous Rights in Australia |date=2016 |orig-year=2008|publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-07054-2 |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Duerr |first1=Glen |title=Book Review: Reconciliation and Colonial Power |journal=Ethnopolitics |date=1 June 2009 |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=263–266 |doi=10.1080/17449050902808524 |s2cid=142245070 |url=https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/history_and_government_publications/9/|url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |last1=Krieken |first1=Robert van |title=Reconciliation and Colonial Power: Indigenous Rights in Australia |journal=Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews |date=March 2009 |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=178–179 |doi=10.1177/009430610903800240|s2cid=144168446 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Short |first1=Damien |title=Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements |date=2011 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-315-87464-7 |chapter=Cultural genocide and indigenous peoples: a sociological approach}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Huseman |first1=Jennifer |last2=Short |first2=Damien |title='A slow industrial genocide': tar sands and the indigenous peoples of northern Alberta |journal=The International Journal of Human Rights |date=2012 |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=216–237 |doi=10.1080/13642987.2011.649593|s2cid=144191921 }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Higgins |first1=Polly |last2=Short |first2=Damien |last3=South |first3=Nigel |title=Protecting the planet: a proposal for a law of ecocide |journal=Crime, Law and Social Change |date=2013 |volume=59 |issue=3 |pages=251–266 |doi=10.1007/s10611-013-9413-6 |s2cid=254425099 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10611-013-9413-6 |language=en |issn=1573-0751|url-access=subscription }}
- {{cite book |last1=Short |first1=Martin Crook, Damien |title=Climate Change and Genocide |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-315-71487-5 |chapter=Marx, Lemkin and the genocide–ecocide nexus}}
- {{cite book |last1=Morley |first1=Damien Short, Jessica Elliot, Kadin Norder, Edward Lloyd-Davies, Joanna |title=Corporate Power and Human Rights |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-315-62280-4 |chapter=Extreme energy, ‘fracking’ and human rights: a new field for human rights impact assessments?}}
- {{cite book |last1=Short |first1=Damien |title=Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide |date=2016 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-84813-546-8 |language=en}}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{{cite journal |last1=McClanahan |first1=Bill |title=Thinking and Doing Green Criminology |journal=Critical Criminology |date=1 September 2018 |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=443–446 |doi=10.1007/s10612-018-9395-x |s2cid=254416503 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10612-018-9395-x |language=en |issn=1572-9877|url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |last1=Docker |first1=John |title=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=Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies |date=2017 |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=27–45 |doi=10.3366/hlps.2017.0151}} 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
- {{cite journal |last1=Crook |first1=Martin |last2=Short |first2=Damien |last3=South |first3=Nigel |title=Ecocide, genocide, capitalism and colonialism: Consequences for indigenous peoples and glocal ecosystems environments |journal=Theoretical Criminology |date=2018 |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=298–317 |doi=10.1177/1362480618787176|s2cid=150239863 |url=http://repository.essex.ac.uk/23005/1/RIS%20version%20Crook%20et%20al.%20--%20Ecocide%20Genocide%20Capitalism%20and%20Colonialism.pdf }}
- {{cite journal |last1=Short |first1=Damien |last2=Szolucha |first2=Anna |title=Fracking Lancashire: The planning process, social harm and collective trauma |journal=Geoforum |date=January 2019 |volume=98 |pages=264–276 |doi=10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.03.001|doi-access=free |hdl=1956/23207 |hdl-access=free }}