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The Politics of Nature at the Former Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp

Małczyński, Jacek

Journal of genocide research, 2020-04, Vol.22 (2), p.197-219 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Abingdon: Routledge

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  • Título:
    The Politics of Nature at the Former Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp
  • Autor: Małczyński, Jacek
  • Assuntos: Auschwitz-Birkenau ; Case studies ; Comparative studies ; Concentration camps ; cultural landscape ; ecocide ; Environmental history ; Genocide ; Herbicides ; Holocaust ; Memorials ; Memory ; monuments ; Natural environment ; Political ecology ; Politics ; Preservation
  • É parte de: Journal of genocide research, 2020-04, Vol.22 (2), p.197-219
  • Descrição: This article seeks to develop a new approach in Holocaust studies, namely an environmental history of the Holocaust. A case study of the former concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau demonstrates the extent of the entanglement of the politics of memory and the politics of nature, or political ecology, to use Bruno Latour's term. I suggest that memorials should be treated as an environment, and thus explored as an assemblage of human and nonhuman (f)actors. Analysing both the official preservation strategies adopted by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum as well as artistic projects (including Łukasz Surowiec's Berlin-Birkenau), I consider commemorative practices' environmental impact. My investigation thus primarily focuses on the role of the figure of the tree-as-witness in preservation work and in the use of powerful herbicides (namely Roundup) in preserving traces of the camp. This study could open the way to further comparative studies of ecocide and genocide.
  • Editor: Abingdon: Routledge
  • Idioma: Inglês
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