Conglomerate infrastructures

Ordinary Sites Used for Extraordinary Regimes of Power

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ID5017075
AuthorsKoji Lau‐ozawa (Stanford University, corresponding author), Koji Lau-Ozawa (Stanford University)
Year2021
Volume53
Issue3
Pages486-501
Publication date2021-05-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.2022.2035804
OpenAlexW4293166606
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited40

Largescale programs require complex and integrated infrastructures to carry out the aims of power. In the case of the WWII mass removal and incarceration of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast of the US, scholars have focused their attention on incarceration camps and landscapes far removed from towns and cities. This article instead examines the wartime civil control stations which were erected for several weeks to several months in 1942 for the purpose of processing and then assembling Japanese Americans in their local areas before their transportation to detention facilities and ultimately incarceration camps. One hundred and twenty-three buildings, banks, theaters, schools, and a range of other facilities were briefly incorporated into a conglomerate infrastructure before returning to their previous uses. Recognizing the hidden and emergent nature of such infrastructures presents a challenge to archaeologists committed to understanding their use in the marginalization of populations

Archaeology · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture

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