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Libro 6 de 27: Theory in Forms

Mrázek, Rudolf

 
9781478005773: The Complete Lives of Camp People: Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity (Theory in Forms)

Sinopsis

In The Complete Lives of Camp People Rudolf MrÁzek 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. MrÁzek 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, MrÁzek 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, MrÁzek demonstrates that concentration camps are not exceptional spaces; they are the locus of modernity in its most distilled form.

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Rudolf MrÁzek is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Michigan and the author of several books, including A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of its Intellectuals, also published by Duke University Press.

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