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This book uses a Lefebvrian spatial framework to explore the production of Ritsona refugee camp in Central Greece. Lefebvre s multifaceted and reflexive conceptualisation of space allows for a macro analysis that locates the camp within the global structure and layout of society, but simultaneously facilitates a more localised exploration of space as an interplay between people, social practices and the built environment of the material camp.
The first half of the book contextualises the camp and examines the broader processes and structures implicated in its production, exploring the emergence of the camp as an idea, and of the birth, development and proliferation of the material camp as a technology of control. The second half of the book, meanwhile, engages with the production of camp space at the level of the everyday and from the perspective of camp residents themselves, and is structured around concepts of domestic, neighbourhood and public space.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Camp, Space, Lefebvre.- Chapter 2: Camp Archaeologies.- Chapter 3: Contemporary Camps and the Restrictive Migration Dispositif.- Chapter 4: Camps Under a Capitalist Mode of Production.- Chapter 5: Representing Camp Space.- Chapter 6: Producing Domestic Space.- Chapter 7: Producing Neighbourhood Space.- Chapter 8: Producing Public Space.- Chapter 9 : Conclusion: The Plurality of Production, the Plurality of Space.
About the author
Alex Tomas Fusco
is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sussex. His research interests include camps, migration and refugees, literature, politics of Europe and the Middle East, space and urban entanglements. His work has appeared in the
Journal of Refugee Studies
, as well as a number of non-academic publications.
Summary
This book uses a Lefebvrian spatial framework to explore the ‘production’ of Ritsona refugee camp in Central Greece. Lefebvre’s multifaceted and reflexive conceptualisation of space allows for a macro analysis that locates the camp within the global structure and layout of society, but simultaneously facilitates a more localised exploration of space as an interplay between people, social practices and the built environment of the material camp.
The first half of the book contextualises the camp and examines the broader processes and structures implicated in its production, exploring the emergence of the camp as an idea, and of the birth, development and proliferation of the material camp as a technology of control. The second half of the book, meanwhile, engages with the production of camp space at the level of the everyday and from the perspective of camp residents themselves, and is structured around concepts of domestic, neighbourhood and public space.
