The architecture of confinement : incarceration camps of the Pacific War

Author(s)

• Pieris, Anoma
• Horiuchi, Lynne

Bibliographic Information

The architecture of confinement : incarceration camps of the Pacific War

Anoma Pieris, Lynne Horiuchi

（Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare）

Cambridge University Press, 2022

• : hardback

Note

Summary: "Two tropes circulating in discussions of the types of architecture that were purpose-built for confinement are the carceral archipelago and the panopticon prison, both used in scholarship on disciplinary institutions in ways useful for our focus. They have not yet been used for discussions of Pacific War incarceration environments. For this volume, a wide arc of the Pacific geography interpreted through carceral sites conjures a network of isolated camps reminiscent of Aleksandr Solzenitsyn's description of the Soviet Gulag system under Stalin"--Provided by publisher

Bibliography: p. 340-357

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• 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.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BD0364979X
• ISBN:
  • 9781316519189
• LCCN: 2021039851
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 374 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : D805.P16
  • DC23 : 940.53/17091823
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Pacific Area -- History
  • LCSH : Prisoner-of-war camps -- Pacific Area -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Internment camps -- Pacific Area -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Architecture and war -- Pacific Area -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Prisoners of war -- Pacific Area -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Prisoners of war -- North America -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA26449073