Camps
Subtitle: a guide to 21st century space
By: Charlie Hailey.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780262083706
Subjects: Camps -- History -- 21st century; Camp sites, facilities, etc. -- History -- 21st century; Camping -- History -- 21st century
Description: "Establishs a typology of camps, but he also embeds within his narrative a key to camp ideology. Thus we see how camp spaces are informed by politics and transform the ways we think about and make built environments. Hailey describes camps of diverse regions, purposes, and forms, and navigates the inherent paradoxes of zones that are neither temporary nor permanent: camps of choice, including summer camps, protest camps, drift camps (research stations on Arctic ice floes), and LTVA (Long-Term Visitor Area) Camps; strategic camps regulated by power—boot camps, GTMO (the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay), immigrant camps, and others;—and transient spaces of relief and assistance, among them refugee camps, FEMA City, work camps, and Gypsy camps."--From the publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.