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
Table of Contents
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
