Rethinking the camp: On spatial technologies of power and resistance
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Publication Date
2020-08Journal Title
Progress in Human Geography
ISSN
0309-1325
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Volume
44
Issue
4
Pages
743-768
Type
Article
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Martin, D., Minca, C., & Katz, I. (2020). Rethinking the camp: On spatial technologies of power and resistance. Progress in Human Geography, 44 (4), 743-768. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519856702
Abstract
<jats:p>In light of the recent proliferation and co-presence of institutional and makeshift camps and encampments in Europe, this article explores the current multifaceted geographies of the camp and their formal and informal spatialities. By engaging with key work in ‘camp studies’ we analyse contemporary institutional and makeshift refugee camps in their complex relationship. While the review of the existing literature is a fundamental starting point for our analysis, in this article we propose to depart from a perspective exclusively focussed on institutional camps to incorporate a reflection on the informal encampments that have recently proliferated in Europe. In particular, we reflect on how these makeshift spatial formations are associated with the presence and workings of institutional camps, at times in a complementary, almost symbiotic relationship. We conclude by suggesting that camps should not be studied in isolation and that both institutional and informal camps should be examined as dynamic spaces that may be transformed and appropriated by their residents, becoming part of the current fragmented mobilities of irregular migrations across Europe and of the related political geographies of bordering, smuggling, and humanitarian care.</jats:p>
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132519856702
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/334283
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