Anoma Pieris (University of Melbourne), Lynne Horiuchi

The Architecture of Confinement

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Produktbeschreibung

An innovative account of prisoners of war and internment camps around the Pacific basin during the Second World War. In this comparative and global study, Anoma Pieris and Lynne Horiuchi offer an architectural and urban understanding of the Pacific War approached through spatial, physical and material analyses of incarceration camp environments.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9781009001724
• ISBN-10: 1009001728
• Artikelnr.: 71575685

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.