Climate Change and Genocide

Environmental Violence in the 21st Century
Herausgeber: Zimmerer, Jurgen

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Produktbeschreibung

Genocide is seen as the scourge of the 20th century. Climate Change is the most fundamental challenge for the 21st century. The book combines both perspectives for the first time and shows, how environmental violence may fuel genocide and contribute to making the 21st century the Century of Genocide. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 297mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781138886421
• ISBN-10: 1138886424
• Artikelnr.: 41748445

Autorenporträt

Jürgen Zimmerer is Professor of History at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and President of the International Network of Genocide Scholars. His research interests include German Colonialism, Comparative Genocide, Colonialism and the Holocaust, Critical Prevention Studies and Environmental Violence and Genocide. He is the author and editor of nine books and numerous articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. Climate change, environmental violence and genocide 2.
Subsistence societies, globalisation, climate change and genocide:
discourses of vulnerability and resilience 3. Marx, Lemkin and the genocide
- ecocide nexus 4. Crystallisations of the global western state in the era
of climate change 5. Culturecide in changing Micronesian climates? About
the unintentionality of climate change 6. Genocidal risk and climate
change: Africa in the twenty-first century 7. Violent climate or climate of
violence? Concepts and relations with focus on Kenya and Sudan