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Climate Change and Genocide: Environmental Violence in the 21st Century book cover

1st Edition

Climate Change and Genocide Environmental Violence in the 21st Century

Edited By Jürgen Zimmerer Copyright 2015
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge
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Climate change caused by human activity is the most fundamental challenge facing mankind in the 21st century, since it will drastically alter the living conditions of millions of people, mainly in the Global South. Environmental violence, including resource crises such as peak fossil fuel, will lie at the heart of future conflicts. However, Genocide Studies have so far neglected this subject, due... Read more

Foreword

Jürgen Zimmerer

1. Climate change, environmental violence and genocide

Jürgen Zimmerer

2. Subsistence　societies, globalisation, climate change and genocide: discourses of vulnerability and resilience

Mark Levene and Daniele Conversi

3. Marx, Lemkin and the genocide – ecocide nexus

Martin Crook and Damien Short

4. Crystallisations of the global western state in the era of climate change

Gregory Kent

5. Culturecide in changing Micronesian climates? About the unintentionality of climate change

Rebecca Hofmann

6. Genocidal risk and climate change: Africa in the twenty-first century

Andreas Exenberger and Andreas Pondorfer

7. Violent climate or climate of violence? Concepts and relations with focus on Kenya and Sudan

Jürgen Scheffran, Tobias Ide and Janpeter Schilling

Biography

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.

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