The Architecture of Confinement

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-009-00172-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 575 g

Reihe: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

In this global and comparative study of Pacific War incarceration environments we explore the arc of the Pacific Basin as an archipelagic network of militarized penal sites. Grounded in spatial, physical and material analyses focused on experiences of civilian internees, minority citizens, and enemy prisoners of war, the book offers an architectural and urban understanding of the unfolding history and aftermath of World War II in the Pacific. Examples are drawn from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, and North America. The Architecture of Confinement highlights the contrasting physical facilities, urban formations and material character of various camps and the ways in which these uncover different interpretations of wartime sovereignty. The exclusion and material deprivation of selective populations within these camp environments extends the practices by which land, labor and capital are expropriated in settler-colonial societies; practices critical to identity formation and endemic to their legacies of liberal democracy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pieris, Anoma

Horiuchi, Lynne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Carceral Archipelago; 2. A Network of Internment Camps; 3. Prisoner-of-War Resistance; 4. Land and Labor; 5. A Military Geography; 6. The Colonial Prison; 7. Empire of Camps; 8. Prison City; 9. Recovery, Redress, and Commemoration; 10. Intersectional Sovereignty; 11. Border Politics; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Horiuchi, Lynne
Lynne Horiuchi is an independent architectural historian whose interdisciplinary work on the planning, design and construction of Japanese American incarceration crosses over into Asian American and diasporic studies with a focus on citizenship, space and race. She has created community based exhibits, course work and planning models using oral history and family photographs. She is co-editor with Tanu Sankalia of Urban Reinvantions: San Francisco's Treasure Island (2017).

Pieris, Anoma
Anoma Pieris is Professor in Architecture at The University of Melbourne. Her previous publications include Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka: The trouser under the cloth (2012), Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes: a penal history of Singapore's plural society (2009), Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka (2018) and the anthology Architecture on the Borderline: boundary politics and built space (2019).