Recently published: Capitalism, Colonisation and the Ecocide-Genocide Nexus by Martin Crook

Capitalism, Colonisation and the Ecocide-Genocide Nexus by Martin Crook is part of the Critical Studies in Human Rights series, published by the University of London Press in association with the Human Rights Consortium and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. It is published open access.

With climate change and a looming ecological crisis impacting the systems and institutions that support life, this timely publication examines the drivers of ecologically induced genocide – the environmental destruction resulting in conditions of life that fundamentally threaten a social group’s cultural or physical existence. Focusing on the former British colonies of Kenya and Australia, both united by a discourse of developmentalism, the book draws attention to the critical role that the destructions of ecologies has historically played, and continues to play, in the genocide of Indigenous and place-based peoples. 

Read the book online or order a copy here.