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The architecture of confinement : incarceration camps of the Pacific War / Anoma Pieris, University of Melbourne, Lynne Horiuchi, Independent Scholar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pieris, Anoma, author.
- Horiuchi, Lynne, author.
- Series:
- Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare.
- Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Pacific Area--History.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
- Japanese Americans.
- Prisoners of war--North America--History--20th century.
- Prisoners of war.
- Prisoners of war--Pacific Area--History--20th century.
- Architecture and war--Pacific Area--History--20th century.
- Architecture and war.
- Internment camps--Pacific Area--History--20th century.
- Internment camps.
- Prisoner-of-war camps--Pacific Area--History--20th century.
- Prisoner-of-war camps.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 374 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Feb 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-009-02032-3
- 1-009-02052-8
- 1-009-00719-X
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