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Archaeologies of Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, and Repression

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Editors:
  1. James Symonds

    1. ACASA, Archaeology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Pavel Vařeka

    1. Department of Archaeology, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic

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  • Address some of the key episodes of violent repression that have taken place in recent historyDemonstrates how state-of-the-art archaeological techniques can recover detailed scientific evidence to identify victims and to substantiate historical claims of murder and brutality
  • Enhances public awareness and understandings of the crimes of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and demonstrates that state oppression has not been eradicated but has merely shifted geographical focus, and is ongoing in the second decade of the 21st century

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict (PSCHC)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Introduction

    • James Symonds, Pavel Vařeka
    Pages 1-15

  3. Mass Graves: Strategies of Extermination During the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s Dictatorship

    • Laura Muñoz-Encinar
    Pages 17-40

  4. Concentration Camps: Classifying the Subjects of the New Spain

    • Xurxo Ayán
    Pages 41-61

  5. Double Vision and the Politics of Visibility: The Landscapes of Forced and Slave Labor

    • Gilly Carr
    Pages 63-81

  6. The Heart of Terror: A Forensic and Archaeological Assessment of the Old Gas Chambers at Treblinka

    • Caroline Sturdy Colls, Kevin Colls
    Pages 83-105

  7. Materiality of a Forced Migration in World War II: Archaeology of Displacement of the Polish Exodus in Iran (from 1942)

    • Maryam Naeimi, Arman Massoudi
    Pages 107-123

  8. Searching for Living Ghosts: The Archaeology of Communist Repression in Poland

    • Paweł Konczewski
    Pages 125-147

  9. Archaeology of the Lithuanian Partisan War: Case of the Partisan Bunker in Daugėliškiai Forest

    • Gediminas Petrauskas, Aistė Petrauskienė
    Pages 149-170

  10. Divided Landscapes, Divided Peoples: An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain Between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany

    • Pavel Vařeka, James Symonds
    Pages 171-198

  11. The Shadow of Pain, Instructions for Archaeologists Living Under Dictatorship

    • Leila Papoli-Yazdi
    Pages 199-217

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 219-241
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About this book

This book offers new insights into the mechanisms of state control, systematic repression and mass violence focused on ethnic, political, class, and religious minorities in the recent past. The geographical and temporal scope of the volume breaks new ground as international scholars foreground how contemporary archaeology can be used to enhance the documentation and interpretation of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, to advance theoretical approaches to atrocities, and to broaden public understandings of how such regimes use violence and repression to hold on to power.



Editors and Affiliations

  • ACASA, Archaeology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    James Symonds

  • Department of Archaeology, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic

    Pavel Vařeka

About the editors

James Symonds is Professor of Historical Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests focus on global historical and contemporary archaeology, and his recent projects have included work on urban archaeology; conflict archaeology; the archaeology of Diasporic communities; and archaeologies of poverty and inequality.



Pavel Vařeka is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. His recent work has focused on later medieval, post-medieval, and modern settlement archaeology; building archaeology; ‘campscape’ archaeology; and archaeologies of communism. He has also led archaeological expeditions to the North Caucasus and Kyrgyzstan.


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