Reflections on Camps - Space, Agency, Materiality (eBook)

Antje Senarclens de Grancy, Heidrun Zettelbauer (Herausgeber)

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2019 | 1. Auflage
174 Seiten
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress (Verlag)
978-3-8470-0851-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Camps as a global and ubiquitous mass phenomenon of the present and a flexible isolation tool for/against specific socially, politically, or ethnically defined groups are at the centre of current policies and societal debates. In the present volume, the authors explore camps as (cultural) spaces in a broad sense and deal with their complex dimensions as sites of the Modern. They examine camp spaces and their social configurations, physical/architectural qualities, symbolic functions as well as cultural representations in an intent to define the inscribed ambivalences, inconsistencies and paradoxes of the phenomenon. Positioned within different disciplinary contexts (Contemporary History, Visual Studies, Architectural History, Refugee and Gender Studies), the assembled articles present a wide range of understandings and approaches to space, materiality and the relations between governance and agency. The contributors stress the entanglement of social structures, cultural discourse, institutionalisation, individual perception and appropriation. They show how the issue of camps can serve as cross-sectional matter for researchers in different fields in Cultural Theory and Contemporary History.

Dr. Antje Senarclens de Grancy ist Architekturhistorikerin, Assistenzprofessorin am Institut für Architekturtheorie, Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften der Technischen Universität Graz.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.6.2019
• Co-Autor: Robert Jan Van Pelt, Heidrun Zettelbauer, Ulrike Krause, Annika Wienert, Antje Senarclens de Grancy
• Zusatzinfo: with 16 figures
• Verlagsort: Göttingen
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Agency • autobiographical representation • barrack-hut • Civilian Conservation Corps • Gender • global South • Holocaust Drawings • homoeroticism/homosexuality • Homosociality • humanitarianism • Maps • Prosecution of Nazi Crimes • refugee camps • Reichsarbeitsdienst • Sobibor • space
• ISBN-10: 3-8470-0851-X / 384700851X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8470-0851-4 / 9783847008514