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From Bureaucracy to Bullets uses eight compelling case studies—from five continents and spanning the 20th and 21st centuries—to explore the concept of extreme domicide, or the intentional destruction of home as a result of political violence. Moving beyond mere description, From Bureaucracy to Bullets identifies common factors that contribute to extreme domicide, thereby providing human rights actors with a framework to hold perpetrators accountable for their actions.
List 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
About the author
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.
Summary
What are the impacts of loss of home upon children, adults, families, communities, and societies? If having a home is a basic human right, then why is the destruction of one's home not viewed as a violation of human rights and prosecuted accordingly? This book answers these questions and more by focusing on domicide as a human rights issue.
