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Anne-Christine Trémon, « BRUCKERMANN, Charlotte. 2019. Claiming Homes: Confronting Domicide in Rural China. New York: Berghahn Books. », China Perspectives, ID : 10.4000/chinaperspectives.12800
Charlotte Bruckermann’s book is set in Sweeping Cliff, a village that has been developed into a tourist site in the mountainous Shanxi countryside. As the village and its old courtyard houses are being economically revalued as a resource for development, the local population, although benefitting from increased income and employment opportunities, experiences dispossession and dislocation – and as such is threatened by “domicide,” the destruction of home. Bruckermann builds on a wide-ranging ...