Domicide : The Global Destruction of Home - Douglas Porteous

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Domicide

The Global Destruction of Home

By: Douglas Porteous, Sandra E. Smith

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Paperback | 16 October 2001

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Media reports describing the destruction of people's homes, for reasons ranging from ethnic persecution to the perceived need for a new airport or highway, are all too familiar. The planned destruction of homes affects millions of people globally; places destroyed range in scale from single dwellings to entire homelands. Domicide tells how and why the powerful destroy homes that happen to be in the way of corporate, political, and bureaucratic projects. Too frequently, this destruction is justified as being in the public interest. Douglas Porteous and Sandra Smith begin their analysis by examining just how important home is to human life and community. Using a multitude of case studies of displacement, they derive a theoretical framework that addresses the motives for, methods, and effects of domicide. Two case studies of resettlement resulting from hydro-electric power development in British Columbia are used to test this framework. Porteous and Smith assess the implications of loss of home, evaluate current efforts at mitigation, suggest better policies to alleviate the suffering of the dispossessed, and - as a last resort - urge resistance against unacceptable projects.

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"A fascinating work - no other book I know of so comprehensively makes a case for rethinking the meaning of emplacement, displacement, and violence in the name of the common good." Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Migration, Immigration & Emigration Social Groups Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Cultural Studies Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Geography

Human Geography

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introducing Domicide	p. 3
Home: A Landscape of the Heart	p. 24
Extreme Domicide: Landscapes of Violence	p. 64
Everyday Domicide: Landscapes of Cruelty	p. 106
Drowning Home: The Columbia River Basin in British Columbia	p. 151
The Nature of Domicide	p. 182
Ending Domicide?	p. 210
Bibliography	p. 243
Index	p. 279
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