Control or Repression: Contrasting a Prisoner of War Camp and a Work Camp from World War Two
There are clear signs of control and repression in the architecture and layout of most internment camps, but internment camps were not the only form of institutional accommodation present in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Comparison of a prisoner of war camp and a forestry work camp, both in Scotland, reveals similarities and differences between the two. The similarities highlight issues of control and authority, while the differences reveal issues of repression and punishment. The comparison also reveals much about official mind-set in the United Kingdom during the Second World War.
Arqueología de los destacamentos penales franquistas en el ferrocarril Madrid-Burgos: El caso de Bustarviejo The archaeology of forced labor camps during the Franco regime in the Madrid-Burgos railway: The case of Bustarviejo
The aim of this article is to explore from an archaeological point of view one of the technologies of repression employed by the Franco regime after the Spanish Civil War: the forced labor camps (destacamentos penales). More specifically we will study the destacamentos established along the Madrid-Burgos railway under construction between 1941 and 1957. In these places of confinement, political and common prisoners redeemed their sentence building the railway. During our research in the Madrid region, we have discovered the remains of several camps and we have begun the archaeological study of one of them, Bustarviejo. Although historical research on Francoist repression after the war has increased during the last decade, the physical spaces where that repression took place have been overlooked. In this work, we will try to show the usefulness of combining archaeology and conventional historiography in order to better understand a technology of punishment of the 20 th century.
The Game Planners: Transforming Canada's Sport System.
The Game Planners studies the policy-making process in six Canadian national sports organizations, each of which deals with a different high-profile Olympic event. The authors argue that the creation of a "high-performance" sport system in Canada is due to pressure from three areas: the Canadian government, the physical education profession, and the sports community.