Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Boundary and Gate
- Ist Teil von
- The Order of Terror, 2013, p.55-64
- Ort / Verlag
- Princeton: Princeton University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2013
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Several boundaries separated the camp from the outside world. Because prisoners were not incarcerated in individual cells, but confined within geometric fields, the security problem was shifted to the external boundary lines. The SS required extensive, mobile barriers to prevent escape, smuggling, and mass breakouts. It thus transformed the boundary into an insurmountable partition, a dangerous, taboo barrier that none dared approach. Only after space was sealed off totally, hermetically, did the camp become that closed locus where absolute power could unfold freely, unhampered by limits. Sealing off the camp served several functions. First, it marked out a domain of
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9780691006857, 0691006857DOI: 10.1515/9781400822188-007Titel-ID: cdi_walterdegruyter_books_10_1515_9781400822188_007
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Applied arts, Applied sciences, Architecture, Arts, Audio equipment, Audiovisual equipment, Behavioral sciences, Buildings, Concentration camps, Correctional institutions, Correctional system, Criminal justice, Criminal law, Criminal offenses, Electronic equipment, Electronics, Fences, Gatehouses, Human behavior, Human societies, International humanitarian law, International law, Internment camps, Interpersonal relations, Killing, Law, Laws of war, Loudspeakers, Minor structures, Outbuildings, Prisoner of war camps, Prisons, Psychology, Rapport, Smuggling, Social dynamics, Social norms, Social psychology, Sociology, Suicide, Taboos, Violence