Shark Island: An Architectural Reconstruction of a Death Camp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weizman, Eyal, author.

Forensic Architecture, author.

Contributor:

Andritsou, Dimitra, contributor.

Bieler, Fine, contributor.

Breiner, Elizabeth, contributor.

Brown, Imani Jacqueline, contributor.

Chantzi, Evi, contributor.

Cheheltan, Ashkan, editor.

Ferwati, Omar, contributor.

Horlitz, Christoffer, researcher.

Humpert, Jasper, contributor.

Mackey, Robert, contributor.

Mushiba, Mark, researcher.

Nguyen Chuong, Agata, researcher.

Onwukeme, Tobechukwu, researcher.

Parlamis, Isabella, contributor.

Rainer, Miriam, contributor.

Salimi, Sina, editor.

Schülin, Joel, contributor.

Suriel Melchor, Alicia, contributor.

Trafford, Robert, contributor.

Forensic Architecture, author.

Library Stack, distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonization.

Historiography.

Imperialism.

Military art and science.

Space (Architecture).

Violence.

Architectural Space.

Colonialism.

Genre:

Discursive works

Records (Documents)

Critical Writing.

Reports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Forensic Architecture, 2024.

[Place of publication not identified] : Forensis, 2024.

Summary:

"Since 2022, Forensis and Forensic Architecture (FA) have worked with Nama and Ovaherero leadership groups in Namibia to examine sites related to the 1904-1908 genocide perpetrated by the German colonial army against the Ovaherero and Nama peoples. This investigation examines one of the most traumatic chapters in this history: the legacy of Shark Island, the site of the deadliest concentration camp established by the Germans in the colony known at the time as 'German South West Africa'. Together with descendants of victims and survivors, we reconstructed the camp in unprecedented detail and identified burial sites dating back to the period of the genocide. Descendants' calls for the preservation of Shark Island and commemoration of the horrors that took place there have taken on new urgency. Significant proposals for commercial and infrastructural development on Shark Island and throughout the wider ancestral lands of the !Aman Nama threaten to destroy further physical traces of this history, continuing a process of erasure already compounded by decades of systemic neglect."-- provided by distributor.

Notes:

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