List of Figures x
List of Abbreviations xii
About the Author xiv
Series Editor’s Preface xv
Acknowledgements xvi
1 Fire in the House 1
2 Conceptualising Domestic Crises 27
3 National Trajectories of Crisis in Cambodia 47
4 Attrition Warfare, Precarious Homes, and Truncated Marriages 67
5 (Un)Invited and (Un)Eventful Spaces of Resistance and Citizenship 109
6 Intimate Wounds of Law and Lawfare 156
7 Dwelling in the Crisis Ordinary 195
References 209
Index 251
Katherine Brickell is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her research has been recognised by the 2014 Gill Memorial award from the RGS-IBG and 2016 Philip Leverhulme Prize from the Leverhulme Trust. She is journal editor of Gender, Place & Culture, former Chair of the RGS-IBG Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group, and has co-edited four books including The Handbook of Displacement (2020), The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia (2017), Geographies of Forced Eviction (2017) and Translocal Geographies (2011). Katherine's current research focuses on developing feminist legal geography as an agenda.
‘I read Home SOS while wearing a brand name pullover made
by Cambodian women garment factory workers. Brickell’s gripping
interviews and her bridging domestic violence to gendered forced
evictions make me wonder what violences are sewn into my clothes.
This is such an innovative, provocative book.’
Cynthia Enloe, Research Professor, International
Development, Clark University, USA
‘The home, Katherine Brickell argues, is neither a pre-political
nor unexceptional place but instead a crucial site where the
production and destruction of life is most powerfully expressed.
Drawing on empirical evidence on domestic violence and forced
evictions in Cambodia, Brickell provides a conceptually rich
account of bio- and necropolitical relations that will resonate for
all who are concerned with and seek to challenge the interrelated
oppressions and violence that are manifest both inside and outside
- but always connected to - the home.’
James A. Tyner, Professor of Geography, Kent State University,
USA
‘This is an important book with theoretical interventions and
insights that take us beyond the confines of both Cambodia and
Gender as analytic categories, even while remaining solidly
grounded in each. Expanding the terms under which we conceive
gender-based violence, Brickell puts forward a novel approach to
social analysis that I will call a ‘home-based’ analysis. Through
the lens of the home, which she argues is ‘intimately connected,
rather than sealed off’ from the impacts of political processes (p.
8), this book connects the seemingly disparate episodes of forced
eviction and domestic violence.’
Courtney Work, National Chengchi University (Singapore Journal of
Tropical Geography) ‘…the book accomplishes a theoretically
rich yet empirically grounded account of domestic violence and
forced eviction as interrelated oppressions and brutalisations of
domestic life. The depth of analysis is a timely offering to
critical feminist geography and perhaps one that could only be
achieved by the longitudinal nature of this study.’
Dr. Charlie Rumsby, University of Coventry (2021 book review
from Gender, Place and Culture)
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