Reflections on Camps - Space, Agency, Materiality

Edited by Antje Senarclens de Grancy and Heidrun Zettelbauer.

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. With contributions by Antje Senarclens de Grancy, Ulrike Krause, Robert Jan van Pelt, Heidrun Zettelbauer and Annika Wienert. Seiten 450-614 [= 165 Seiten] mit 16 Abb., broschiert (zeitgeschichte; Jahrgang 45, Heft 4/Vienna University Press/V&R unipress 2018) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear