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Camps Revisited: Multifaceted Spatialities of a Modern Political Technology
Contributor(s): Katz, Irit (Editor), Martin, Diana (Editor), Minca, Claudio (Editor)

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ISBN: 1786605805     ISBN-13: 9781786605801
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
OUR PRICE: $152.25  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Geopolitics
- Political Science | Globalization
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
Dewey: 362.878
LCCN: 2018037750
Series: Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" L (1.25 lbs) 318 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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Facing the current growing global archipelago of encampments, this book project intends to develop a geographical reflection on 'the camp', as a modern institution and as a spatial bio-political technology. This book focuses on past and present camp geographies and on the dispositifs that make them an ever-present spatial formation in the management of unwanted populations characterizing many authoritarian regimes as well as many contemporary democracies. It also offers and investigates possible ways to resist the present-day proliferating manifestations of camps and 'camp thinking', by calling for the incorporation of 'camp studies' into the broader field of political geography and to consider the geographies of the camp as constitutive of much broader modern geo-political economies. By linking spatial theory to the geopolitical and biopolitical workings and practices of contemporary camps, the contributions in this collection argue that the camps seem to be here-to-stay, like a permanent/temporary presence giving shape to improvised, semi-structured and hyper-orderly structured spatialities in our cities and our countryside. Camps are also a specific response, for example, to the changing conditions of European borders due to the 'refugee crisis' and the rise of nationalism in many countries affected by such crisis.

Contributor Bio(s): Martin, Diana: - Diana Martin is Lecturer of Geography at the University of Portsmouth. Her research focuses on displacement and migration flows, with a particular focus on the production of geographies of exclusion and inclusion manifested in the establishment of official forms of encampment (refugee camps, hotspots) and their relation to informal settlements and urban informalities. Her recent publications include 'From spaces of exception to 'campscapes' Palestinian refugee camps and informal settlements in Beirut' (Political Geography 2015).Katz, Irit: - Irit Katz is an architect and a researcher at the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research, the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies at Girton College Cambridge. Her research centres on the spatial, ethnographic, geopolitical and historical study of camps and other spaces of displacement, movement and refuge. Her research 'The Common Camp: Temporary Settlements as a Spatio-political Instrument in Israel-Palestine' has won the 2016 RIBA President's Award for Research in the Cities and Community category. She published her work on the camp in leading academic journals such as Political Geography, City and Public Culture.Minca, Claudio: - Claudio Minca is Professor and Head of Cultural Geography at Wageningen University. His current research centres on three major themes: the spatialisation of (bio)politics; tourism and travel theories of modernity; and the relationship between modern knowledge, space and landscape in postcolonial geography. His most recent books are On Schmitt and Space (2015, with R. Rowan), Hitler's Geographies (2016, with P. Giaccaria) and Moroccan Dreams (2016, with L. Wagner).
 
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