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The Complete Lives of Camp People: Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity
Contributor(s): Mrázek, Rudolf (Author)
ISBN: 1478006676     ISBN-13: 9781478006671
Publisher: Duke University Press
OUR PRICE:   $32.25  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia - Southeast Asia
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Penology
Dewey: 365.450
LCCN: 2019013464
Series: Theory in Forms
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.50 lbs) 496 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southeast Asian
 
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In The Complete Lives of Camp People Rudolf Mr zek presents a sweeping study of the material and cultural lives of twentieth-century concentration camp internees and the multiple ways in which their experiences speak to the fundamental logics of modernity. Mr zek focuses on the minutiae of daily life in two camps: Theresienstadt, a Nazi "ghetto" for Jews near Prague, and the Dutch "isolation camp" Boven Digoel-which was located in a remote part of New Guinea between 1927 and 1943 and held Indonesian rebels who attempted to overthrow the colonial government. Drawing on a mix of interviews with survivors and their descendants, archival accounts, ephemera, and media representations, Mr zek shows how modern life's most mundane tasks-buying clothes, getting haircuts, playing sports-continued on in the camps, which were themselves designed, built, and managed in accordance with modernity's tenets. In this way, Mr zek demonstrates that concentration camps are not exceptional spaces; they are the locus of modernity in its most distilled form.