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Domicide in the Liveable City
From: Resisting Eviction
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In this chapter, Crosby explores urban liveability and domicide, identifying liveability as an ideological discourse of urban improvement that is mobilized alongside gentrification efforts to unmake the homes of already marginalized populations. Discourses of liveability, in this regard, work to produce domicide, which he reconceptualizes to account for the reproductive and repressive elements of home unmaking. Domicide is structured in part through discourses of improvement (e.g., liveability and revitalization) that hierarchically and racially order life and the value of life.
Contributors
Andrew Crosby
Andrew Crosby is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo, with a PhD in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. He is co-author of Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State (2018, Fernwood).
