The Camp: Designed Artifact

A review of Irit Katz, The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022, 368 pages, 99 b&w photos, six maps. ISBN: 978-1-5179-0717-4. The Common Camp provides a careful account of the role of camps in the materialization of settlement ideology in Israel–Palestine over several historical periods. The book employs architectural history methods in the study of numerous aspects of the camps, identifying them as designed cultural-political artifacts used by diverse actors for controlling and well as resisting control, thus contributing to the literature on camps in political geography and related fields.