Richard Carter-White
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 254841 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard Carter-White |
| NOMBRES | Richard |
| APELLIDO | Carter-White |
| FIRMA | CARTER-WHITE R |
| AFILIACIONES | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9231-9315 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
A day in the camp
The Auschwitz Memorial is one of the most well-known and significant heritage sites in the world. As visitor numbers have grown, the behaviour of visitors has generated public concerns about the meaning and purpose of the Memorial as a means of preserving the memory of the violence perpetrated at that site. In this article, we provide an autoethnographic account of the guided tour that Memorial authorities have developed to structure visits to th…
A Spatial Theory of the Camp
From concentration camps to refugee settlements, there is little consensus about what exactly defines ‘the camp’. This timely and comprehensive book adopts a geographical perspective to develop a spatial theory of the camp, advancing the interdisciplinary field of camp studies. Richard Carter-White and Claudio Minca explore the spatial logics and practices that unite different camps, demonstrating why the camp has become such an integral tool of …
Embodied Encounters with Virtual Reality in Geography Education
Virtual reality (VR) constitutes a deeply embodied mode of communication that has gained significant interest and application in geography education and research. In this article, we engage with recent theoretical work to conceptualize VR as a communicative encounter and centralize the role of embodiment therein. We argue that different bodies experience VR in different ways, which raises questions about the potential inequalities of access and e…
Refusing clichés
The synthetic photography of Irish-American conceptual artist, Kevin Abosch, speaks to a growing field of artistic and creative practices concerned with critically exploring the potential futures of human creativity and imagination in the wake of artificial intelligence (AI). Scholars within and beyond geography have often turned to such artistic engagements with AI for how they figure these technologies and systems as objects of refusal, framing…
Maurice Blanchot’s troubling geography
In dialogue with recent studies that have sought to foreground the negative and the abyssal in human geography and that have struggled in vain to prevent their foreclosure, we introduce the work of the French theorist Maurice Blanchot, whose challenging and thought-provoking writings remain largely unknown within our discipline despite their significance for deconstructing geography’s conceptual architecture. After explicating Blanchot’s neutrali…
The camp as a custodian institution
Care and control are concepts frequently invoked within Camp Studies, often as a means of characterizing the varied logics of institutional camps. This article builds on recent geographical literature by going beyond care and control and proposing a renewed focus on the idea of custodianship within a range of historical and contemporary camp contexts, from colonial and totalitarian concentration camps to present-day refugee camps. The notion of t…
Witnessing the witnesses
The significance of testimony as a means of investigating camp spaces is indicated by the extensive literature analysing the eyewitness accounts of Nazi camp survivors. This paper builds on ongoing methodological debates in geographies of the Holocaust to suggest that witness testimony provides a valuable and multifaceted resource for investigating diverse aspects of camp spatiality. After offering an overview of the kinds of camp spaces emergent…
Virtual reality as a spatial prompt in geography learning and teaching
We examine the claim that virtual reality (VR) holds significant potential for pedagogical applications in geography. We do so with reference to results from a two-year research-teaching project embedded in a postgraduate course on "Heritage and Its Management." We reflect on the implementation of a VR field trip to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum enabled by the high-immersive Inside Auschwitz guided documentary, drawing on surveys and interv…
The signature of the disaster
The prominence of witness testimony in a range of contemporary political events is reflected in interdisciplinary efforts to theorise the act and genre of witnessing. Notably, this literature has framed the occurrence of errors, contradictions, and other instances of "problematic" speech in testimony as attesting to the traumatic quality of disastrous events. In this paper we extend this line of reasoning by recasting the fundamental quality or "…
Delivering the discipline
COVID-19 has radically changed the higher education sector in Australia and beyond. Restrictions on student movement (especially for international students) and on gatherings (which limited on-campus sessions) saw universities transition to fully online teaching modes almost overnight. In this commentary, we reflect on this transition and consider the implications for teaching the disciplines of geography and planning. Reflecting on experiences a…
The camp and the question of community
Towards a spatial historiography of the Holocaust
Primo Levi and the genre of testimony
Following on from spectral geographical studies of the disruptive aspects of memory, this paper further develops recent interest in the nonrepresentational and paradoxical dynamics of witnessing by drawing out the possibility of a historiography based on the capacity of testimony to interrupt and suspend representational closure. This possibility is posited in relation to the specific historiographical challenges posed by places and events of atr…
Auschwitz, Ethics, and Testimony
Witness testimonies provide a singular challenge to historians of Auschwitz. Survivor accounts offer a privileged perspective on the world of the camp, yet as recent conceptual work has shown the performative structure of these texts exceeds and eludes this representational duty. The challenge for historians is that, given their privileged, 'insider' status, any equivocality regarding the content of witness testimonies provides space for Holocaus…
Nonhuman Witnessing
Auschwitz, Ethics, and Testimony
Witness testimonies provide a singular challenge to historians of Auschwitz. Survivor accounts offer a privileged perspective on the world of the camp, yet as recent conceptual work has shown the performative structure of these texts exceeds and eludes this representational duty. The challenge for historians is that, given their privileged, 'insider' status, any equivocality regarding the content of witness testimonies provides space for Holocaus…
The camp and the question of community
Primo Levi and the genre of testimony
Following on from spectral geographical studies of the disruptive aspects of memory, this paper further develops recent interest in the nonrepresentational and paradoxical dynamics of witnessing by drawing out the possibility of a historiography based on the capacity of testimony to interrupt and suspend representational closure. This possibility is posited in relation to the specific historiographical challenges posed by places and events of atr…
The camp as a custodian institution
Care and control are concepts frequently invoked within Camp Studies, often as a means of characterizing the varied logics of institutional camps. This article builds on recent geographical literature by going beyond care and control and proposing a renewed focus on the idea of custodianship within a range of historical and contemporary camp contexts, from colonial and totalitarian concentration camps to present-day refugee camps. The notion of t…
Maurice Blanchot’s troubling geography
In dialogue with recent studies that have sought to foreground the negative and the abyssal in human geography and that have struggled in vain to prevent their foreclosure, we introduce the work of the French theorist Maurice Blanchot, whose challenging and thought-provoking writings remain largely unknown within our discipline despite their significance for deconstructing geography’s conceptual architecture. After explicating Blanchot’s neutrali…
Witnessing the witnesses
The significance of testimony as a means of investigating camp spaces is indicated by the extensive literature analysing the eyewitness accounts of Nazi camp survivors. This paper builds on ongoing methodological debates in geographies of the Holocaust to suggest that witness testimony provides a valuable and multifaceted resource for investigating diverse aspects of camp spatiality. After offering an overview of the kinds of camp spaces emergent…
Virtual reality as a spatial prompt in geography learning and teaching
We examine the claim that virtual reality (VR) holds significant potential for pedagogical applications in geography. We do so with reference to results from a two-year research-teaching project embedded in a postgraduate course on "Heritage and Its Management." We reflect on the implementation of a VR field trip to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum enabled by the high-immersive Inside Auschwitz guided documentary, drawing on surveys and interv…
Towards a spatial historiography of the Holocaust
Delivering the discipline
COVID-19 has radically changed the higher education sector in Australia and beyond. Restrictions on student movement (especially for international students) and on gatherings (which limited on-campus sessions) saw universities transition to fully online teaching modes almost overnight. In this commentary, we reflect on this transition and consider the implications for teaching the disciplines of geography and planning. Reflecting on experiences a…
The signature of the disaster
The prominence of witness testimony in a range of contemporary political events is reflected in interdisciplinary efforts to theorise the act and genre of witnessing. Notably, this literature has framed the occurrence of errors, contradictions, and other instances of "problematic" speech in testimony as attesting to the traumatic quality of disastrous events. In this paper we extend this line of reasoning by recasting the fundamental quality or "…
Auschwitz, Ethics, and Testimony
Witness testimonies provide a singular challenge to historians of Auschwitz. Survivor accounts offer a privileged perspective on the world of the camp, yet as recent conceptual work has shown the performative structure of these texts exceeds and eludes this representational duty. The challenge for historians is that, given their privileged, 'insider' status, any equivocality regarding the content of witness testimonies provides space for Holocaus…
Primo Levi and the genre of testimony
Following on from spectral geographical studies of the disruptive aspects of memory, this paper further develops recent interest in the nonrepresentational and paradoxical dynamics of witnessing by drawing out the possibility of a historiography based on the capacity of testimony to interrupt and suspend representational closure. This possibility is posited in relation to the specific historiographical challenges posed by places and events of atr…
Towards a spatial historiography of the Holocaust
The camp and the question of community
The signature of the disaster
The prominence of witness testimony in a range of contemporary political events is reflected in interdisciplinary efforts to theorise the act and genre of witnessing. Notably, this literature has framed the occurrence of errors, contradictions, and other instances of "problematic" speech in testimony as attesting to the traumatic quality of disastrous events. In this paper we extend this line of reasoning by recasting the fundamental quality or "…
Delivering the discipline
COVID-19 has radically changed the higher education sector in Australia and beyond. Restrictions on student movement (especially for international students) and on gatherings (which limited on-campus sessions) saw universities transition to fully online teaching modes almost overnight. In this commentary, we reflect on this transition and consider the implications for teaching the disciplines of geography and planning. Reflecting on experiences a…
The camp as a custodian institution
Care and control are concepts frequently invoked within Camp Studies, often as a means of characterizing the varied logics of institutional camps. This article builds on recent geographical literature by going beyond care and control and proposing a renewed focus on the idea of custodianship within a range of historical and contemporary camp contexts, from colonial and totalitarian concentration camps to present-day refugee camps. The notion of t…
Witnessing the witnesses
The significance of testimony as a means of investigating camp spaces is indicated by the extensive literature analysing the eyewitness accounts of Nazi camp survivors. This paper builds on ongoing methodological debates in geographies of the Holocaust to suggest that witness testimony provides a valuable and multifaceted resource for investigating diverse aspects of camp spatiality. After offering an overview of the kinds of camp spaces emergent…
Virtual reality as a spatial prompt in geography learning and teaching
We examine the claim that virtual reality (VR) holds significant potential for pedagogical applications in geography. We do so with reference to results from a two-year research-teaching project embedded in a postgraduate course on "Heritage and Its Management." We reflect on the implementation of a VR field trip to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum enabled by the high-immersive Inside Auschwitz guided documentary, drawing on surveys and interv…
Nonhuman Witnessing
Maurice Blanchot’s troubling geography
In dialogue with recent studies that have sought to foreground the negative and the abyssal in human geography and that have struggled in vain to prevent their foreclosure, we introduce the work of the French theorist Maurice Blanchot, whose challenging and thought-provoking writings remain largely unknown within our discipline despite their significance for deconstructing geography’s conceptual architecture. After explicating Blanchot’s neutrali…
A Spatial Theory of the Camp
From concentration camps to refugee settlements, there is little consensus about what exactly defines ‘the camp’. This timely and comprehensive book adopts a geographical perspective to develop a spatial theory of the camp, advancing the interdisciplinary field of camp studies. Richard Carter-White and Claudio Minca explore the spatial logics and practices that unite different camps, demonstrating why the camp has become such an integral tool of …
Embodied Encounters with Virtual Reality in Geography Education
Virtual reality (VR) constitutes a deeply embodied mode of communication that has gained significant interest and application in geography education and research. In this article, we engage with recent theoretical work to conceptualize VR as a communicative encounter and centralize the role of embodiment therein. We argue that different bodies experience VR in different ways, which raises questions about the potential inequalities of access and e…
Refusing clichés
The synthetic photography of Irish-American conceptual artist, Kevin Abosch, speaks to a growing field of artistic and creative practices concerned with critically exploring the potential futures of human creativity and imagination in the wake of artificial intelligence (AI). Scholars within and beyond geography have often turned to such artistic engagements with AI for how they figure these technologies and systems as objects of refusal, framing…
A day in the camp
The Auschwitz Memorial is one of the most well-known and significant heritage sites in the world. As visitor numbers have grown, the behaviour of visitors has generated public concerns about the meaning and purpose of the Memorial as a means of preserving the memory of the violence perpetrated at that site. In this article, we provide an autoethnographic account of the guided tour that Memorial authorities have developed to structure visits to th…
Sociology (11 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · History (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Epistemology (6 obras) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Aesthetics (5 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 obras) · History (5 obras)