Domicide: The Global Destruction of Home
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 methods, effects of, and motives for 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...
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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, bureaucratic, and strategic projects. Too frequently, this destruction is justified as being in the public interest.
PrefaceAcknowledgments1Introducing Domicide32Home: A Landscape of the Heart243Extreme Domicide: Landscapes of Violence644Everyday Domicide: Landscapes of Cruelty1065Drowning Home: The Columbia River Basin in British Columbia1516The Nature of Domicide1827Ending Domicide?210Bibliography243Index279
