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'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 'The Architecture of Confinement is a ground-breaking study of war-time built environments. It examines with erudition and complexity the legacy of rural concentration camps of the Pacific War. A pioneering work, it illuminates how a comparative and temporal approach can transform understandings of race, colonialism and imperial politics in war and beyond.' Joy Damousi, Australian Catholic University 'This is an ambitious transnational study of the built environments of mass confinement in World War II that bring together studies of confinement sites in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Singapore. It is magnificently eye-opening and informative.' Greg Robinson, Universite du Quebec a Montreal

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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).

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