The meaning and function of camps, from Scout Jamborees and RV
Clubs to FEMA trailers and GTMO. What is a camp? In August 2005,
television news showed viewers an estimated 20,000 Katrina evacuees
camped out in the Superdome, Cindy Sheehan protesting the Iraq War
on President Bush's doorstep in "Camp Casey," Texas, and Israeli
and Palestinian young people at the Seeds of Peace Camp in Maine
discussing the evacuation of settlement camps in the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, off camera, summer campers all over America packed up
their gear, preparing to depart Scout camps, computer camps, and
sports camps, and millions of recreational vehicles owners were on
the road, permanent itinerant campers. In Camps, Charlie Hailey
examines the space and idea of camp as a defining dimension of
21st-century life. The ubiquity and diversity of camps calls for a
guidebook. This is what Hailey offers, but it is no ordinary one.
Not only does he establish a typology of camps, but he also embeds
within his narrative a key to camp ideology. Thus we see how camp
spaces are informed by politics and transform the ways we think
about and make built environments. Hailey describes camps of
diverse regions, purposes, and forms, and navigates the inherent
paradoxes of zones that are neither temporary nor permanent: camps
of choice, including summer camps, protest camps, drift camps
(research stations on Arctic ice floes), and LTVA (Long-Term
Visitor Area) Camps; strategic camps regulated by power-boot camps,
GTMO (the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay), immigrant camps, and
others;-and transient spaces of relief and assistance, among them
refugee camps, FEMA City, work camps, and Gypsy camps. More than
150 diagrams, sketches, building and site plans, photographs,
political cartoons, video game screenshots, aerial and satellite
images, and maps illustrate camp space in unprecedented complexity
and variety. Today camps are at the center of emerging questions of
identity, residency, safety, and mobility. Camp spaces register the
struggles, emergencies, and possibilities of global existence as no
other space does.
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