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Cover -- Book epigraph -- About the author -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Research strategy and theoretical orientation -- Chapter outlines -- 1. Definitional conundrums: a sociological approach to genocide -- Introduction: sociology and genocide studies -- Cultural genocide as genocide -- Indigenous peoples: genocide or cultural change? -- 2. The genocide-ecocide nexus -- Ecocide and environmental destruction in the UN system: revising the Genocide Convention? -- Ecocide: the missing 5th Crime Against Peace -- The crime of ecocide today -- 3. Palestine -- Introduction -- Political genocide -- Physical genocide -- Economic genocide -- Water -- The ecocidal method -- Cultural genocide -- Conclusion -- 4. Sri Lanka -- Introduction -- Historical context -- Occupation, settler colonial genocide and the cultural method -- Physical genocide -- Land grabs and the economic method -- Ecocide and deforestation: war and neoliberalism -- Conclusion -- 5. Australia -- Introduction -- 'Cultural genocide' in Australia -- The 'Intervention' -- Cultural genocide through urbanization -- Ecocide and extreme energy -- A series of continuing genocides and ecocides -- Conclusion -- 6. Tar sands and the indigenous peoples of northern Alberta -- Introduction: 'the Tar Sands are killing us' -- The tar sands and the Indians of Treaty 8: 'taking without grabbing' -- What exactly are the 'tar sands'? -- Ecologically induced genocide -- Conclusion -- 7. Looking to the future: where to from here? -- For the field of genocide studies -- For social groups, humanity and ecosystems -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 Definitional conundrums: a sociological approach to genocide -- 2 The genocide-ecocide nexus -- 3 Palestine -- 4 Sri Lanka -- 5 Australia -- 6 Tar sands and the indigenous peoples of northern Alberta.

7 Looking to the future: where to from here? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

A startlingly original work that demonstrates how and why genocide studies has so far failed to engage with settler colonialism, ecocide and capitalism as key drivers of genocides.