Camps Revisited: Multifaceted Spatialities of a Modern Political Technology. Edited by Irit Katz, Diana Martin and Claudio Minca

Abstract

The camp has been the subject of scholarly fascination for decades. The seeming proliferation of camps during the so-called refugee ‘crisis’ has prompted many researchers to reconsider the workings of the refugee or migrant camp not only elsewhere, but also in their home countries in Europe. Beyond the journeys of those fleeing violence across the Mediterranean, movement around the globe is at an all-time high. Camps, with their particular temporalities and immobile infrastructures for those on the move, are at once both easy solutions to providing care and an effective means of asserting control. Yet, while camps share these characteristics, scholars are challenged with the task of conveying the complex realities of such sites as both oppressive and extraterritorial on the one hand and opportunities for inclusion and agency for camp inhabitants on the other. Within this context of mass global human movement, Camps Revisited takes on the ambitious goal...