Camps as a global and ubiquitous mass phenomenon of the present and a flexible isolation tool for/against specific socially, politically, or ethnically defi ned groups are at the centre of current policies and societal debates. In the present volume, the authors explore camps as (cultural) spaces in a broad sense and deal with their complex dimensions as sites of the Modern. They examine camp spaces and their social configurations, physical/architectural qualities, symbolic functions as well as cultural representations in an intent to define the inscribed ambivalences, inconsistencies and paradoxes of the phenomenon. Positioned within different disciplinary contexts (Contemporary History, Visual Studies, Architectural History, Refugee and Gender Studies), the assembled articles present a wide range of understandings and approaches to space, materiality and the relations between governance and agency. The contributors stress the entanglement of social structures, cultural discourse, institutionalisation, individual perception and appropriation. They show how the issue of camps can serve as cross-sectional matter for researchers in different fields in Cultural Theory and Contemporary History.
Inhalt
Antje Senarclens de Grancy / Heidrun Zettelbauer Editorial 451
Artikel
Antje Senarclens de Grancy Different Housing Spaces – Space, Function, and Use of Barrack-Huts in World War I Refugee Camps 457
Ulrike Krause Protection j Victimisation j Agency? Gender-sensitive Perspectives on Present-day Refugee Camps 483
Robert Jan van Pelt Labour Service Barrack-Huts in Germany and the United States, 1933–45 507
Heidrun Zettelbauer Unwanted Desire and Processes of Self-Discipline. Autobiographical Representations of the Reichsarbeitsdienst Camps in the Diary of a Young Female National Socialist 537
Annika Wienert Camp Cartography : On the Ambiguity of Mapping Nazi Extermination Camps 575
Abstracts 599
Rezensionen
Veronika Duma Henning Fischer, Überlebende als Akteurinnen 605
Oliver Rathkolb Christian Merlin, Die Wiener Philharmoniker. Band 1: Das Orchester und seine Geschichte von 1842 bis heute, Band 2: Die Musiker und Musikerinnen von 1842 bis heute 607
Olaf Stieglitz Matthias Marschik/Rolf Sachsse, Rauchende Sportler 609
Autor/innen 613