/i>'Redefining Genocide ... will undoubtedly have a significant impact within the social sciences.

Capitalism Nature Socialism

Makes fascinating, compelling, and theoretically coherent connections between colonialism, genocide, and ecological destruction. The field of genocide studies puts out a number of books each year, but this one truly counts as a required reading that unites a number of fields of study that have remained separate for too long...one of the most important works published in the field in recent years.

Academic Council on the United Nations System

/i>'Short's engaging text complicates the definition of genocide for scholars in law, history, politics, and sociology ...This book will undoubtedly stretch genocide scholars and spur debate.

Choice (Association of College and Research Libraries)

Short should be commended for an engaging, well-supported and important contribution. Not only should this book be essential reading for genocide scholars, Redefining Genocide should be read across indigenous and environmental studies, criminology, sociology, international development and political science.

Theoretical Criminology

This is a very welcome and much needed book. In it, Short offers a timely and important challenge for us all to contend with the ongoing and intertwined threats of ecological and group destruction.

Andrew Woolford, author of This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide and Redress in Canada and the United States

In this important and timely book, the sociologist Damien Short highlights the destruction wrought by the interaction of genocide and ecocide. Well-chosen case studies about indigenous peoples' catastrophic experiences of land appropriation and resource exploitation by state-authorized corporations reveal that the perfectly legal economic processes of settler colonialism manifest a largely ignored banality of evil.

Dirk Moses, author of Empire, Colony, Genocide