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The Architecture of Confinement

Incarceration Camps of the Pacific War

Av Anoma Pieris, Lynne Horiuchi

Del i serien Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

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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.
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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).

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'This is a pathbreaking transnational history of the architecture of internment of the Pacific War. In this theoretically informed and richly empirical study, Anoma Pieris and Lynne Horiuchi open up new interdisciplinary perspectives for us to think about how architecture mediates complex, intersectional expressions of sovereignty.' Jiat-Hwee Chang, National University of Singapore

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