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Domicide: The Global Destruction Of Home
Porteous, J. Douglas; Smith, Sandra E.
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Description for Domicide: The Global Destruction Of Home
paperback. The most comprehensive analysis yet of the deliberate destruction of homes and homelands. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFS; JHB; JHMC; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
"Their eyes see rubble, former exiles see home" Globe and Mail, 23 June 2000 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 at mitigation, suggest better policies to alleviate the ... Read more
"Their eyes see rubble, former exiles see home" Globe and Mail, 23 June 2000 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 at mitigation, suggest better policies to alleviate the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773522589
SKU
V9780773522589
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Reviews for Domicide: The Global Destruction Of Home
"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