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Author:   Bree Akesson ,  Andrew R. Basso
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.472kg
ISBN:  

9781978802728

ISBN 10:   1978802722
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   11 February 2022
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of 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 (1944-2009)               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"

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This innovative and noteworthy book adds an important perspective to human rights scholarship with valuable insight into the use of domicide as a political and military strategy. --Scott Harding Associate Professor, University of Connecticut

Author Information

BREE AKESSON is the Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Global Adversity and Wellbeing and the associate director of the Centre for Research on Security Practices (CRSP) at Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford, Ontario. ANDREW R. BASSO is a researcher affiliated with the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy (LISPOP) at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario and was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction and the Department of Political Science at Western University in London, Ontario. He researches political violence, human rights, and transitional justice.

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