Topographies/topologies of the camp: Auschwitz as a spatial threshold

Political Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-12

  Giaccaria, Paolo ^c   Minca, Claudio ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agamben; Auschwitz Birkenau; Camp; Nazism; Threshold; Topographies topologies

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; MODERNITY; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; THRESHOLD; TOPOGRAPHY; TOPOLOGY;

EID: 79951512354     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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