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An innovative account of prisoners of war and internment camps around the Pacific basin during the Second World War.
List 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.
About the author
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).Lynne Horiuchi is an independent architectural historian whose interdisciplinary work on the planning, design and construction of Japanese American incarceration crosses over into Asian American and diasporic studies with a focus on citizenship, space and race. She has created community based exhibits, course work and planning models using oral history and family photographs. She is co-editor with Tanu Sankalia of Urban Reinvantions: San Francisco's Treasure Island (2017).
Summary
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.
Foreword
An innovative account of prisoners of war and internment camps around the Pacific basin during the Second World War.
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'This is an ambitious transnational study of the built environments of mass confinement in World War II that bring together studies of confinement sites in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Singapore. It is magnificently eye-opening and informative.' Greg Robinson, Université du Québec à Montréal
