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"Two tropes circulating in discussions of the types of architecture that were purpose-built for confinement are the carceral archipelago and the panopticon prison, both used in scholarship on disciplinary institutions in ways useful for our focus. They have not yet been used for discussions of Pacific War incarceration environments. For this volume, a wide arc of the Pacific geography interpreted through ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-202) and index. 204 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

In Behind the Postcolonial Abidin Kusno shows how colonial representations have been revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia. The book shows how architecture and urban space can be seen, both historically and theoretically, as representations of political and cultural tendencies that characterize an emerging as well as a declining social order. It addresses the complex interactions between ...

Uitg. bij de tentoonstelling 'Another city from another life', The Drawing Center, New York, 2 november-30 december 1999 en het symposium 'The activist drawing', 30 oktober 1999. 152 p. : ill. ; 27 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index. xv, 207 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 26 cm.

Met literatuuropgaven.

Includes bibliographical references and index. xiv, 847 pages ; 24 cm

In 1997, James E. Young was invited to join a German commission appointed to find an appropriate design for a national memorial in Berlin to the European Jews killed in World War II. In this book he tells his story. How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once commited in its name, and, also, how can a generation of contemporary artists remember an event like the Holocaust, which it ...

Paramilitary or irregular units have been involved in practically every case of identity-based mass violence in the modern world, but detailed analysis of these dynamics is rare. Exploring the case of former Yugoslavia, the genocides in Rwanda and Darfur, and the ongoing violence in Syria, Kate Ferguson exposes the relationships between paramilitaries, state commands, local communities, and organised ...

The scope and nature of humanilarian emergencies generaled by civil conflicts and wars in Africa exceed the continental capacity to adequately and effectively respond to them. With the founding of the African Union and the drafting of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, the basis for collective action against genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, it is a critical time to reflect ...