From Bureaucracy to Bullets
Extreme Domicide and the Right to Home
1st Edition
Published on 11. February 2022
287 pages
978-1-9788-0275-9 (ISBN)
Description
There are currently a record-setting number of forcibly displaced persons in the world. This number continues to rise as solutions to alleviate humanitarian catastrophes of large-scale violence and displacement continue to fail. The likelihood of the displaced returning to their homes is becoming increasingly unlikely. In many cases, their homes have been destroyed as the result of violence. Why are the homes of certain populations targeted for destruction? What are the impacts of loss of home upon children, adults, families, communities, and societies? If having a home is a fundamental human right, then why is the destruction of home not viewed as a rights violation and punished accordingly? From Bureaucracy to Bullets answers these questions and more by focusing on the violent practice of extreme domicide, or the intentional destruction of the home, as a central and overlooked human rights issue.
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Content
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Part I. Introduction
- 1. Castles and Cages: A Theory of Home and Home Loss
- 2. The Difference between Life and Death: The Human Right to Home
- 3. A Causal Pathway and Typology of Extreme Domicide
- Part II. From Bureaucracy to Bullets
- 4. "And Leave Them Burning Our Homes": The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya (1952-1960)
- 5. No Place to Call Home: Mutually Assured Domicide in Cyprus (1974)
- 6. "The Cruelest Work I Ever Knew": Domicide and the Cherokee Trail of Tears (1838-1839)
- 7. Reducing Homes to Keys: The Occupation of Palestine and the Matrix of Control (1945-Present)
- 8. "Their Home Will Be Razed Down to the Basement": Chechnya's Generations of Domicide (1944-Present)
- 9. Manufacturing Homogeneity: Domicide in Bosnia (1992-1995)
- 10. Wiping Neighborhoods Off the Map: The Syrian War (2011-Present)
- 11. "All the Villages We Saw on the Way to the Sea Were Burning": The Rohingya in Myanmar (2012-Present)
- Part III. Conclusions
- 12. You Can't Go Home Again: Justice, Reconciliation, and a Convention Against Domicide
- 13. Home Matters: Lessons Learned while Studying Extreme Domicide
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Authors
