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.
The geographical transmission of smallpox in the Franco-Prussian War: prisoner of war camps and their impact upon epidemic diffusion processes in the civil settlement system of Prussia, 1870-71.
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Arqueología y práctica política. Reflexión y acción en un mundo cambiante
espanolLa practica de investigacion arqueologica puede entenderse como practica politica, como accion transformadora de las realidades contemporaneas y futuras. Explorando los diversos estatutos que la arqueologia adopta en torno a la relacion del saber y el poder, rechazamos muchas de las implicaciones positivistas que la han constituido como ciencia desde sus origenes, asi como otras posteriores posmodernas. Proponemos, como via posible de investigacion, una concepcion de la arqueologia como indagacion, reflexion y critica de las diversas maneras, explicitas u ocultas, en que la cultura material condiciona y es condicionada por la accion social; de las tendencias hegemonicas y totalizadoras del orden social; y de la estratificacion de distintas experiencias y temporalidades en el cambio cultural. El trabajo arqueologico activo en comunidades especificas, tome la forma de intervencion sobre los focos de memoria, o de analisis de problematicas arqueologicas, permite la consecucion de una experiencia social contemporanea respetuosa con la alteridad y consciente de si misma. EnglishArchaeological research can be conceived as a political undertaking, as an activity capable of transforming contemporary and future realities. Reviewing the different potential approaches to the relationship between knowledge and power, we reject many of the positivist implications that have shaped archaeology as a science since its origins, as well as other postmodern implications. We propose, as a possible method of research, to consider archaeology as a tool of inquiry, reasoning and criticism about the different ways, explicit or hidden, in which material culture conditions and is conditioned by social action; the hegemonic and totalizing tendencies of social order; and the stratification of different experiences and temporalities in cultural change. Archaeological work in specific communities, whether it adopts the form of an intervention in memory cores or an analysis of archaeological problems, allows the achievement of a contemporary social experience respectful of alterity and selfknowledge.