Archaeologies of totalitarianism, authoritarianism, and repression : dark modernities

General Information

Language
English.
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Physical Description
241 p. : ill ; 22 cm.

Contributors

Contributor
Symonds, James, (editor)
Vařeka, Pavel, 1967- (editor)

Contents/Summary

Summary
This book offers new insights into the mechanisms of state control, systematic repression and mass violence focused on ethnic, political, class, and religious minorities in the recent past.

Subjects

Subject
Archaeology > Political aspects > Europe.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility
James Symonds, Pavel Vařeka, editors.
Series
Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
Content
1. Introduction / James Symonds and Pavel Vařeka -- 2. Mass graves: strategies of extermination during the Spanish Civil War and Franco's dictatorship / Laura Muñoz-Encinar -- 3. Concentration camps: classifying the subjects of the New Spain / Xurxo Ayán -- 4. Double vision and the politics of visibility: the landscapes of forced and slave labor / Gilly Carr -- 5. The heart of terror: a forensic and archaeological assessment of the old gas chambers at Treblinka / Caroline Sturdy Colls and Kevin Colls -- 6. Materiality of a forced migration in World War II: archaeology of displacement of the Polish Exodus in Iran (from 1942) / Maryam Naeimi and Arman Massoudi -- 7. Searching for living ghosts: the archaeology of Communist repression in Poland / Paweł Konczewski -- 8. Archaeology of the Lithuanian partisan war: case of the partisan bunker in Daugėliškiai Forest / Gediminas Petrauskas and Aistė Petrauskienė -- 9. Divided landscapes, divided peoples: an archaeology of the Iron Curtain between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany / Pavel Vařeka and James Symonds -- 10. the shadow of pain, instructions for archaeologists living under dictatorship / Leila Papoli-Yazdi.
ISBN
9783030466824
9783030466831

Holdings

Item Type Current Location Collection Call Number Volume Info Shelving Location Public Note
BookOSA Archivum LibraryReference collection930.1 SYMReference-

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