Camps Revisited: Multifaceted Spatialities of a Modern Political Technology (Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds)

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ISBN 10: 1786605813 / ISBN 13: 9781786605818

Published by -, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Camps Revisited: Multifaceted Spatialities of a Modern Political Technology (Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds)
• Publisher: -
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786605813
• ISBN 13: 9781786605818
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Facing the current growing global archipelago of encampments, this book project intends to develop a geographical reflection on ‘the camp’, as a modern institution and as a spatial bio-political technology.

This book focuses on past and present camp geographies and on the dispositifs that make them an ever-present spatial formation in the management of unwanted populations characterizing many authoritarian regimes as well as many contemporary democracies. It also offers and investigates possible ways to resist the present-day proliferating manifestations of camps and ‘camp thinking’, by calling for the incorporation of ‘camp studies’ into the broader field of political geography and to consider the geographies of the camp as constitutive of much broader modern geo-political economies.

By linking spatial theory to the geopolitical and biopolitical workings and practices of contemporary camps, the contributions in this collection argue that the camps seem to be here-to-stay, like a permanent/temporary presence giving shape to improvised, semi-structured and hyper-orderly structured spatialities in our cities and our countryside. Camps are also a specific response, for example, to the changing conditions of European borders due to the ‘refugee crisis’ and the rise of nationalism in many countries affected by such crisis.

About the Author

Irit Katz is an architect, Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Architecture at Girton College Cambridge.

Diana Martin is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Portsmouth.

Claudio Minca is Professor and Head of the Department of Geography and Planning at Macquarie University.