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Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space by Charlie Hailey (English) Paperback Book
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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN-13
- 9780262512879
- Type
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- ISBN
- 9780262512879
- Book Title
- Camps : a Guide to 21st-Century Space
- Item Length
- 8.1in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5in
- Genre
- Travel, Architecture, Social Science
- Topic
- General, Popular Culture, Criticism, Parks & Campgrounds
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 29.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 560 Pages
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The meaning and function of camps, from Scout Jamborees and RV Clubs to FEMA trailers and GTMO. What is a camp? In August 2005, television news showed viewers an estimated 20,000 Katrina evacuees camped out in the Superdome, Cindy Sheehan protesting the Iraq War on President Bush's doorstep in "Camp Casey," Texas, and Israeli and Palestinian young people at the Seeds of Peace Camp in Maine discussing the evacuation of settlement camps in the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, off camera, summer campers all over America packed up their gear, preparing to depart Scout camps, computer camps, and sports camps, and millions of recreational vehicles owners were on the road, permanent itinerant campers. In Camps , Charlie Hailey examines the space and idea of camp as a defining dimension of 21st-century life. The ubiquity and diversity of camps calls for a guidebook. This is what Hailey offers, but it is no ordinary one. Not only does he establish 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 Guant namo Bay), immigrant camps, and others;--and transient spaces of relief and assistance, among them refugee camps, FEMA City, work camps, and Gypsy camps. More than 150 diagrams, sketches, building and site plans, photographs, political cartoons, video game screenshots, aerial and satellite images, and maps illustrate camp space in unprecedented complexity and variety. Today camps are at the center of emerging questions of identity, residency, safety, and mobility. Camp spaces register the struggles, emergencies, and possibilities of global existence as no other space does.
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262512874
ISBN-13
9780262512879
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71073934
Product Key Features
Book Title
Camps : a Guide to 21st-Century Space
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Popular Culture, Criticism, Parks & Campgrounds
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Travel, Architecture, Social Science
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.1in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
29.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gv191.7.H34 2009
Grade from
College Graduate Student
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"While camps may appear like rather simple physical environments made of prefabricated repetitive shelters that permanently seek to perform their temporariness, Hailey demonstrates how complex a set of spaces camps can actually be. With almost one thousand refugee camps in more than forty countries, and tens of thousands of the other types discussed, it is increasingly apparent that no one, not least architects, can any longer ignore this emergent type of environment." -Eyal Weizman, Director of Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, London University
Copyright Date
2009
Lccn
2008-029411
Dewey Decimal
796.54/2
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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