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Podcast: New Books in Human Rights
Episode: Aidan Forth, "Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
Description: The concentration of terrorists, political suspects, ethnic minorities, prisoners of war, enemy aliens, and other potentially âdangerousâ populations spans the modern era. From Konzentrationslager in colonial Africa to strategic villages in Southeast Asia, from slave plantations in America to Uyghur sweatshops in Xinjiang, and from civilian internment in World War II to extraordinary rendition at Guantanamo Bay, mass detention is as diverse as it is ubiquitous.
Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement (University of Toronto Press, 2024) offers a short but compelling guide to the varied manifestations of concentration camps in the last two centuries, while tracing provocati...