Architecture of Confinement

Anoma Pieris is Professor in Architecture at The University of Melbourne. Her previous publications include Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka: The trouser under the cloth (2012), Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes: a penal history of Singapore's plural society (2009), Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka (2018) and the anthology Architecture on the Borderline: boundary politics and built space (2019). Lynne Horiuchi is an independent architectural historian whose interdisciplinary work on the planning, design and construction of Japanese American incarceration crosses over into Asian American and diasporic studies with a focus on citizenship, space and race. She has created community based exhibits, course work and planning models using oral history and family photographs. She is co-editor with Tanu Sankalia of Urban Reinvantions: San Francisco's Treasure Island (2017).

• Introduction; 1. Carceral Archipelago; 2. A Network of Internment Camps; 3. Prisoner-of-War Resistance; 4. Land and Labor; 5. A Military Geography; 6. The Colonial Prison; 7. Empire of Camps; 8. Prison City; 9. Recovery, Redress, and Commemoration; 10. Intersectional Sovereignty; 11. Border Politics; Bibliography; Index.

'This is a pathbreaking transnational history of the architecture of internment of the Pacific War. In this theoretically informed and richly empirical study, Anoma Pieris and Lynne Horiuchi open up new interdisciplinary perspectives for us to think about how architecture mediates complex, intersectional expressions of sovereignty.' Jiat-Hwee Chang, National University of Singapore