Book contents
- The Architecture of Confinement
- Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- The Architecture of Confinement
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 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
- Select Bibliography
- Index
3 - Prisoner-of-War Resistance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2022
- The Architecture of Confinement
- Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- The Architecture of Confinement
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 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
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 3 discusses how the captive population of Germans, Italians and Japanese, their patriotism sharpened by group incarceration, railed against confinement in Australian and New Zealand’s camps. Using “escape” as its central theme, the chapter examines breakout attempts at camps in Murchison, Cowra and Featherston, offering insights into enforcement of 1929 Geneva Convention regulations for POW treatment. The chapter introduces the dodecagon-shaped POW camp as a unique design tested in Australia for the accommodation of racially different combatants and a continuation of a longer history of convictism. New Zealand’s wartime camps repurpose and adapt facilities associated with quarantine.
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- The Architecture of ConfinementIncarceration Camps of the Pacific War, pp. 84 - 115Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022