From Bureaucracy to Bullets

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.

"Tracking the widespread and often unseen practices of domicide – the deliberate destruction of home – this book forces us to rethink the meaning of home as a human right. Clear, rigorous, and persuasive, it makes the need for a Convention Against Domicide an urgent and necessary endeavor."— Michael Vicente Pérez, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Memphis"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

• 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 Bullets4. "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: Conclusions12. You Can't Go Home Again: Justice, Reconciliation, and a Convention Against Domicide                  13. Home Matters: Lessons Learned While Studying Extreme Domicide         Acknowledgments              NotesIndex