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Author Diken, Blent

Title Culture of Exception : Sociology Facing the Camp
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages)
Contents TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 NAKED LIFE; 2 ENTRENCHED SPACES; 3 THE CAMP AS DISCIPLINE, CONTROL AND TERROR; 4 FROM REFUGEE CAMPS TO GATED COMMUNITIES; 5 FROM RAPE WARS TO THE PARTY ZONE; 6 FROM TERROR TO THE POLITICS OF SECURITY; 7 SOCIOLOGY AFTER THE CAMP; 8 ETHICS AFTER THE CAMP; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary 'The camp' is no longer an exception but the rule. This book investigates the paradox of the camp, which represents both an old fear of enclosure and a new dream of belonging
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Subject Camps -- Social aspects
Internment camps.
Gated communities.
Human geography.
Refugee camps.
Sex tourism.
Social distance.
Refugees
gated communities.
refugee camps.
Internment camps
Camps -- Social aspects
Gated communities
Human geography
Refugee camps
Sex tourism
Social distance
Form Electronic book
Author Laustsen, Carsten B
ISBN 9780203023440
0203023447
1280253738
9781280253737