Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Hogan, Colman
2. Marín, Marta

Description

1. vii, 438 p. : ill. (some col.); 22 cm.

Summary

1. The camp is nothing if not diverse: in kind, scope, and particularity; in sociological and juridical configuration; in texture, iconography, and political import. Adjectives of camp specificity embrace a spectrum from extermination and concentration, to detention, migration, deportation, and refugee camps. And while the geographic range covered by contributors is hardly global, it is broad: Chile, Rwanda, Canada, the US, Central Europe, Morocco, Algeria, South Africa, France and Spain. And yet is to so characterize the camp to run the risk of diffusing what in origin is a concentration into a paratactical series of identity particularisms ? While The Camp does not seek to antithetically promulgate a universalist vision, it does aim to explore the imbrication of the particular and the universal, to analyze the structure of a camp or camps, and to call attention the role of the listener in the construction of the testimony.

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. Segregation <Soziologie>
3. Isolation <Soziologie>
4. Internment camps
5. Prisoners of war > History > 20th century
6. Social isolation
7. Marginality, Social
8. Droits de l'homme
9. Crimes contre l'humanité
10. Centres de détention (Immigration)
11. Camps de concentration
12. Prisonniers politiques
13. Réfugiés politiques
14. Isolement social
15. Internierungslager
16. Konzentrationslager
17. Concentration Camps
18. Social Isolation
19. Civil Rights

Genre/Form

1. History

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain