Archaeologies of Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, and Repression

Dark Modernities

James Symonds, Pavel Vařeka (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XXII, 241 Seiten

2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-46682-4 (ISBN)

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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. The geographical and temporal scope of the volume breaks new ground as international scholars foreground how contemporary archaeology can be used to enhance the documentation and interpretation of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, to advance theoretical approaches to atrocities, and to broaden public understandings of how such regimes use violence and repression to hold on to power.

James Symonds is Professor of Historical Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests focus on global historical and contemporary archaeology, and his recent projects have included work on urban archaeology; conflict archaeology; the archaeology of Diasporic communities; and archaeologies of poverty and inequality. Pavel Vareka is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. His recent work has focused on later medieval, post-medieval, and modern settlement archaeology; building archaeology; 'campscape' archaeology; and archaeologies of communism. He has also led archaeological expeditions to the North Caucasus and Kyrgyzstan.

1. Introduction.- 2. Mass Graves: Strategies of Extermination during the Spanish Civil War and Franco´s Dictatorship.- 3. Concentration Camps: Classifying the Subjects of the New Spain.- 4. Double Vision and the Politics of Visibility: the Landscapes of Forced and Slave Labour.- 5. The Heart of Terror: A Forensic and Archaeological Assessment of the Old Gas Chambers at Treblinka.- 6. Materiality of a Forced Migration in WWII. Archaeology of Displacement of the Polish Exodus in Iran (From 1942).- 7. Searching for Living Ghosts: The Archaeology of Communist Repression in Poland.- 8. Archaeology of the Lithuanian Partisan War: Case of the Partisan Bunker in Daug liskiai Forest.- 9. Divided Landscapes, Divided Peoples: An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany.- 10. The Shadow of Pain. Instructions for Archaeologists Living under Dictatorship.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2020
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
Zusatzinfo	XXII, 241 p. 30 illus., 26 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	473 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	authoritarianism • Dark Heritage • Difficult Heritage • Forensic Turn • Totalitarianism
ISBN-10	3-030-46682-5 / 3030466825
ISBN-13	978-3-030-46682-4 / 9783030466824
Zustand	Neuware