domicide

Breadth of domicide

The publisher's account of Porteous and Smith's work includes home destruction associated with political and development projects, from dwellings to homelands; the draft therefore should not assume a war-only scope. [Domicide: The Global Destruction of Home](https://utpdistribution.com/9780773522589/domicide/)

1. Whose definition is being used, and does it include development projects and destruction of individual homes? definition
2. Which competing definition would include or exclude this episode, and on which criterion? boundary

Minimum evidence for an instance

Specify the required evidence of home, destructive action, deliberateness, and harm without inventing a universal numerical threshold.

1. What observations must be present before this episode meets the selected definition? definition
2. What evidence would instead support accidental loss, ordinary demolition, or displacement without destruction of home? boundary

Whose home

Record residents, tenants, informal occupants, and absent or displaced inhabitants where evidence supports their relationship to the place.

1. Who regarded and used this place as home before the destructive process, including people already displaced? provenance
2. How do accounts of home differ between inhabitants, property records, and the actors carrying out destruction? boundary

Material and lived loss

Assess habitability and inhabitants' reported losses separately, without imposing a single score for the meaning of home.

1. Which capacities for living at home were destroyed, and which belongings, relationships, or practices were lost? measurement
2. Under the selected definition, can destruction of home be established while the dwelling remains standing? boundary

Evidence of deliberate destruction

Link actor-specific claims to orders, plans, testimony, conduct, and counterevidence; distinguish intentional acts from intent to destroy home.

1. Which evidence supports an intention to destroy home, rather than only an intention to undertake the action that caused damage? provenance
2. Which actors planned, authorised, and implemented the destruction, and where is the causal link disputed? provenance

Destruction and continuing exclusion

Reconstruct demolition or other destructive acts alongside eviction, access restrictions, and subsequent barriers to return, without assuming every stage independently qualifies as domicide.

1. What sequence connects removal of inhabitants, physical destruction, and any later prohibition of return? provenance
2. Which stages constitute destruction under the chosen definition, and which are causes, consequences, or separate acts? boundary

Baseline and loss estimates

Record dated baselines, damage categories, occupancy assumptions, and uncertainty in estimates of homes lost.

1. How many dwellings became uninhabitable relative to the pre-event baseline, and how was habitability assessed? measurement
2. How were affected households counted when buildings contained multiple homes or residents had already fled? measurement

Pattern without assumed intent

Compare timing, location, selection, and decision links while separating evidence of damage from evidence of motive or policy.

1. What links separate destroyed homes to a common decision, campaign, or policy rather than geographic proximity alone? provenance
2. Where do imagery, administrative records, and inhabitants' accounts corroborate or contradict one another? provenance

Intervention before irreversible loss

Record upcoming demolitions or other threats, actors able to change them, and inhabitants' preferred protective actions.

1. Which pending decision or activity threatens further destruction, and who can suspend or modify it? action
2. Which protective measures do affected inhabitants seek, and could those measures themselves produce lasting exclusion? action

Inhabitant-defined restoration

Compare return, repair, rebuilding, restitution, compensation, and alternative settlement against documented losses and preferences.

1. What would affected inhabitants regard as restoration, and which barriers prevent their preferred outcome? action
2. Which remedy or investigation pathway is supported by current jurisdiction-specific authority and the available evidence? action

Check these first

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these check these first hold for the sense of domicide this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Kinds and varieties

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1. Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of domicide this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Real-world use

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of domicide this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Failure modes and hazards

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of domicide this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of domicide this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance