All Outputs (4)

Developmentalism and the genocide–ecocide nexus (2020)
Journal Article
Crook, M., & Short, D. (2021). Developmentalism and the genocide–ecocide nexus. Journal of Genocide Research, 23(2), 162-188. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2020.1853914

This article seeks to contribute to an emerging “ecological turn” in genocide studies that places the material “extra-human environment” at the core of the biological and cultural integrity of social groups such as indigenous peoples and territoriall... Read More about Developmentalism and the genocide–ecocide nexus.

Ecocide, genocide, capitalism and colonialism: Consequences for indigenous peoples and glocal ecosystems environments (2018)
Journal Article
Crook, M., Short, D., & South, N. (2018). Ecocide, genocide, capitalism and colonialism: Consequences for indigenous peoples and glocal ecosystems environments. Theoretical Criminology, 22(3), 298-317. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480618787176

Continuing injustices and denial of rights of indigenous peoples are part of the long legacy of colonialism. Parallel processes of exploitation and injustice can be identified in relation to non-human species and/or aspects of the natural environment... Read More about Ecocide, genocide, capitalism and colonialism: Consequences for indigenous peoples and glocal ecosystems environments.

Marx, Lemkin and the genocide–ecocide nexus (2014)
Journal Article
Crook, M., & Short, D. (2014). Marx, Lemkin and the genocide–ecocide nexus. International Journal of Human Rights, 18(3), 298-319. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2014.914703

A number of studies have shown that ecocide can be a method of genocide if, for example, environmental destruction results in conditions of life that fundamentally threaten a social groups cultural and/or physical existence.1 With the ever-increasing... Read More about Marx, Lemkin and the genocide–ecocide nexus.

The Mau Mau genocide: A neo-Lemkinian analysis (2013)
Journal Article
Crook, M. (2013). The Mau Mau genocide: A neo-Lemkinian analysis. Journal of Human Rights in the Commonwealth, 1(1), 18-37. https://doi.org/10.14296/jhrc.v1i1.1697

This paper attempts to analyse the colonisation of Kenya by the British colonial government and the necessary genocidal effect on the ethnic group known as the Kikuyu through the lens of genocide as understood by Raphael Lemkin, the neologist of the... Read More about The Mau Mau genocide: A neo-Lemkinian analysis.