Home SOS: Gender, Violence, and Survival in Crisis Ordinary Cambodia (RGS-IBG Book Series) - Hardcover

Brickell, Katherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 111889832X ISBN 13: 9781118898321

Publisher: Wiley, 2020

Synopsis

Drawing on 15 years of fieldwork and over 300 interviews, Home SOS argues that the home is central to the violence and gendered contingency of existence in crisis ordinary Cambodia. 

• Provides an original book-length study which brings domestic violence and forced eviction into twin view
• Offers relational insights between different violences to build an integrated understanding of women’s experiences of home life
• Mobilises the crisis ordinary as a critical pedagogy and imaginary through which to understand everyday gendered politics of survival
• Positions domestic violence and forced eviction as manifestations of intimate war against women’s homes and bodies located inside and outside of the traditional purview of war
• Reaffirms and reprioritises the home as a political entity which is foundational to the concerns of human geography

 

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

'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

Home SOS argues that the home is central to the violence and gendered contingency of existence in crisis ordinary Cambodia. Based on over 300 interviews and conducted over 15 years, this book focuses on women's experiences of survival-work in (un)eventful situations of domestic violence and forced eviction. Charting the journey of Cambodia's first-ever domestic violence law, alongside women's housing activism against forced eviction, Home SOS explores how the political economy of the country has conspired to limit and in some cases quash the transformative potential that each might hold. Together, domestic violence, and forced eviction are shown to be interrelated oppressions and brutalisations of domestic life that gravitate and retrain multiple subfields of geography on to the home sphere as a public-private hybrid worthy of energised study.

From the Inside Flap

'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

Home SOS argues that the home is central to the violence and gendered contingency of existence in crisis ordinary Cambodia. Based on over 300 interviews and conducted over 15 years, this book focuses on women's experiences of survival-work in (un)eventful situations of domestic violence and forced eviction. Charting the journey of Cambodia's first-ever domestic violence law, alongside women's housing activism against forced eviction, Home SOS explores how the political economy of the country has conspired to limit – and in some cases quash – the transformative potential that each might hold. Together, domestic violence, and forced eviction are shown to be interrelated oppressions and brutalisations of domestic life that gravitate and retrain multiple subfields of geography on to the home sphere as a public-private hybrid worthy of energised study.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 111889832X
• ISBN 13: 9781118898321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280