Camps etc.

It is not a new topic for me, but I keep on finding new inspiration and sources relating to that. 'The camp' is a very interesting topic as such, as well as a lens through which looking at the spatial organization of sociality and politics. When it comes to Roma in the Italian context, the relevance of the camp goes without saying. It is particularly useful, imho, to contextualize the analysis of nomad camps within the broader semiotic and historical relevance of other kinds of camps, such as refugee camps, nazi and fascist camps, and temporary camps for migrants. Here is one of the reflections by a leading scholar in the study of contemporary forms of power and subjugation, especially in postcolonial contexts, Michel Agier (EHESS). Worth reading. And here a podcast of his recent lecture at Cambridge: Camps, Humanitarian Government and the Idea of Humanity.

It is nonetheless weared that googling "nomad camps" in Google photos, one get pictures of Iranian, North African, Tibetan and other populations living and travelling within certain regions. If you want to see Italian nomad camps, you should google "campi nomadi", and you arrive to quite different images.