domicideとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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domicide (複数形 domicides)

1. The deliberate destruction of a home or homes.
   • 2001 J. Douglas Porteous and Sandra E. Smith, Domicide: The Global Destruction of Home, McGill-Queen’s University Press, p. ix.

     Currently, no word exists for the action of destroying peoples’ homes and/or expelling them from their homeland. We suggest the neologism “domicide,” the deliberate destruction of home that causes suffering to its inhabitants.

   • 2012 Katherine Brickell, "Geopolitics of Home", Geography Compass 6(10), p. 577.

     The work of Porteous and Smith (2001, 64) is central here to understanding what is coined "domicide", the deliberate destruction of home, which in its "extreme" form involves "major, planned operations that occur rather sporadically in time but often affect large areas and change the lives of considerable numbers of people".

   • 2017 Yunpeng Zhang, "‘It Felt Like You Were at War’: State of Exception and Wounded Life in the Shanghai Expo-Induced Domicide", Geographies of Forced Eviction: Dispossession, Violence, Resistance, edited by Katherine Brickell et al., Palgrave Macmillan, p. 98.

     Inspired by Katherine Boo (2012, p. 251) who contends that "better arguments, maybe even better policies, get formulated only when we know more about ordinary lives", I draw on the displacees’ testimonials collected from formal and informal settings and examine their intense, layered and complex experiences of losing homes and communities, or domicide.