Damien Short is a professor of

human rights Human rights are universally recognized Morality, moral principles or Social norm, norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both Municipal law, national and international laws. These rights are considered ...

and

environmental justice Environmental justice is a social movement that addresses injustice that occurs when poor or marginalized communities are harmed by hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses from which they do not benefit. The movement has gene ...

at the

School of Advanced Study The School of Advanced Study (SAS), a postgraduate-only institution of the University of London, is the UK's national centre for the promotion and facilitation of research in the humanities and social sciences. It was established in 1994 and ...

of the

University of London The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a collegiate university, federal Public university, public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The ...

. Focuses of his research include indigenous rights,

genocide studies Genocide studies is an academic field of study that researches genocide. Genocide became a field of study in the mid-1940s, with the work of Raphael Lemkin, who coined ''genocide'' and started genocide research, and its primary subjects were the ...

, and environmental human rights. Short is the editor-in-chief of the '' International Journal of Human Rights'' and a member of the

International Network of Genocide Scholars The International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS) is a non-profit and non-partisan organization dedicated to fostering scholarly multi-disciplinary exchange and academic debate in the field of genocide studies. Creation and goals The INoGS w ...

.'''' He is co-director of the Human Rights Consortium and the Environmental Humanities Research Hub at the

Life and career

Short received an MA and a PhD from the

University of Essex The University of Essex is a public university, public research university in Essex, England. Established by royal charter in 1965, it is one of the original plate glass university, plate glass universities. The university comprises three camp ...

, along with an LLB from the

University of Wales The University of Wales () is a confederal university based in Cardiff, Wales. Founded by royal charter in 1893 as a federal university with three constituent colleges – Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff – the university was the first universit ...

. He is a judge on the International Rights of Nature Tribunal, a project of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature. Books published by Short include ''Reconciliation and Colonial Power: Indigenous Rights in Australia'' (2008) and ''Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide'' (2016).

Works

* * * * * * * * * Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide Stevenson, Shaun A. Studies in Social Justice; Windsor Vol. 11, Iss. 2, (2017): 400. https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/article/view/1523/1486 * *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Short, Damien Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Academics of the School of Advanced Study