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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- About the Author -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One Fire in the House -- Introduction -- Crisis Ordinaries of Domestic Violence and Forced Eviction -- The Survival-Work of Domestic Violence and Forced Eviction -- The Gender-Based Violences of Domestic Violence and Forced Eviction -- Converging Research Trajectories -- Overarching Methodological Approaches -- Structure of the Book -- Endnotes -- Chapter Two Conceptualising Domestic Crises -- Introduction -- Crisis Ordinary and Survival-Work -- Bio-necropolitics and Precarity -- Intimate War and Slow Violence -- Law and Lawfare -- Rights to Dwell -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Chapter Three National Trajectories of Crisis in Cambodia -- Introduction -- National Trajectories -- Pre-revolutionary Cambodia (Pre-1970) -- The Khmer Rouge Regime (1975-1979) -- The People's Revolutionary Party of Kampuchea (1979-1989) -- Re-opening Windows to the World (1989 Onwards) -- Endnotes -- Chapter Four Attrition Warfare, Precarious Homes, and Truncated Marriages -- Introduction -- Domestic Violence in Cambodia -- Intimate Wars of Attrition -- Altruistic Politics of the Crisis Ordinary -- Domestic Violence as Forced Eviction -- Forced Eviction in Cambodia -- Intimate Wars of Attrition -- Deathly Foundations of 'Development' -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Chapter Five (Un)Invited and (Un)Eventful Spaces of Resistance and Citizenship -- Introduction -- Legislating Against Domestic Violence -- Harmonising Discord: Cambodia's 2005 Domestic Violence Law -- Precarious Economics of Help-Seeking -- Contesting Forced Eviction -- Defending Home: Women's Leadership Against Forced Eviction -- Hitting a Stone with an Egg: Women's Defiant Tactics -- Conclusion -- Endnotes.

"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"--

This article examines victims' purported complicity in the judicial failures of domestic violence law to protect them in Cambodia. It is based on 3 years (2012-2014) of research in Siem Reap and Pursat Provinces on the everyday politics of the 2005 "Law on the Prevention of Domestic Violence and the Protection of the Victims" (DV Law). The project questioned why investments in DV Law are faltering and took a multi-stakeholder approach to do so. In addition to 40 interviews with female domestic violence victims, the research included 50 interviews with legal and health professionals, NGO workers, low- and high-ranking police officers, religious figures, and local government authority leaders who each have an occupational investment in the implementation and enforcement of DV Law. Forming the backbone of the article, the findings from this latter sample reveal how women are construed not only as barriers "clouding the judgment of law" but also as actors denying the agency of institutional stakeholders (and law itself) to bring perpetrators to account. The findings suggest that DV Law has the potential to entrench, rather than diminish, an environment of victim blaming. In turn, the article signals the importance of research on, and better professional support of, intermediaries who (discursively) administrate the relationship between DV Law and the victims/citizens it seeks to protect.

"Acknowledgments" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Tables" -- "Geographies of Forced Eviction: Dispossession, Violence, Resistance" -- " Historical Trajectories of Forced Evictions" -- " Assembling Displacement" -- " Scalar Geographies of Forced Eviction" -- " Emotional and Differentiated Dynamics of Forced Eviction" -- " Geographies of Resistance" -- "References" -- "Struggling for the Right to Be Recognized: The Informal Settlement of Old Fadama, Accra, Ghana" -- " Introduction" -- " The Principles of Community Empowerment" -- " 'The rise of Informal Settlements in Developing Countries'" -- "Community Empowerment in Developing Countries" -- " Old Fadama: The Case Study" -- " The State's Reluctance to Compromise" -- " Slum Dwellers and Community Empowerment" -- " Breaking the Deadlock" -- " Conclusions" -- "References" -- "The Right to Adequate Housing Following Forced Evictions in Post-­Conflict Colombo, Sri Lanka" -- " Urbanisation and Housing Policy in Sri Lanka" -- " Forced Evictions and Adequate Housing" -- " Researching Forced Evictions in Colombo" -- " Housing Conditions in Informal Settlements" -- " Experiences of Eviction in Colombo" -- " Watta Dwellers No More: The Loss of Community" -- " Conclusions: Reaffirming the Right to Adequate Housing" -- "References" -- "Unsettling Resettlements: Community, Belonging and Livelihood in Rio de Janeiro's Minha Casa Minha Vida" -- " Introduction" -- " Rio's Urban 'Revitalisation'" -- " MCMV and Its Critics" -- " Two MCMV Resettlements" -- " Background" -- " Community and Place Making: Living with and In-Difference" -- " Broken Promises and Distance" -- " Working Re-arrangements" -- " Conclusions" -- "References" -- "'It Felt Like You Were at War': State of Exception and Wounded Life in the Shanghai Expo-Induced Domicide

"Offering a comprehensive overview of the current situation in the country, The handbook of contemporary Cambodia provides a broad coverage of social, cultural, political and economic development within both rural and urban contexts during the last decade. A detailed introduction places Cambodia within its global and regional frame, and the handbook is then divided into five thematic sections: Political and Economic Tensions, Rural Developments, Urban Conflicts, Social Processes, Cultural Currents. The first section looks at the major political implications and tensions that have occurred in Cambodia, as well as the changing parameters of its economic profile. The handbook then highlights the major developments that are unfolding within the rural sphere, before moving on to consider how cities in Cambodia, and particularly Phnom Penh, have become primary sites of change. The fourth section covers the major processes that have shaped social understandings of the country, and how Cambodians have come to understand themselves in relation to each other and the outside world. Section five analyses the cultural dimensions of Cambodia's current experience, and how identity comes into contact with and responds to other cultural themes. Bringing together a team of leading scholars on Cambodia, the handbook presents an understanding of how sociocultural and political economic processes in the country have evolved"--

We live in an increasingly drone-saturated world. In this article, we bring drone scholarship and feminist geopolitics into dialogue to interrogate the drone-home. We re-orient military- and state-led accounts, foregrounding the growing range of non-state actors enacting and subject to the drone as it is increasingly employed in the Global North. In so doing, we develop the concept of 'everyday droning' as the honing and homing of military technology and drone capitalism. Examining militarization and enclosure at the scale of everyday home life, we urge future geographical work to engage with everyday droning being actively seeded in the domestic here-and-now.