James Symonds & Pavel Vařeka 
Archaeologies of Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, and Repression 
Dark Modernities

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.

表中的内容

1. Introduction.- 2. Mass Graves: Strategies of Extermination during the Spanish Civil War and Franco´s Dictatorship.- 3. Concentration Camps: Classifying the Subjects of the New Spain.- 4. Double Vision and the Politics of Visibility: the Landscapes of Forced and Slave Labour.- 5. The Heart of Terror: A Forensic and Archaeological Assessment of the Old Gas Chambers at Treblinka.- 6. Materiality of a Forced Migration in WWII. Archaeology of Displacement of the Polish Exodus in Iran (From 1942).- 7. Searching for
Living Ghosts: The Archaeology of Communist Repression in Poland.- 8. Archaeology of the Lithuanian Partisan War: Case of the Partisan Bunker in Daugėliškiai Forest.- 9. Divided Landscapes, Divided Peoples: An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain between Czechoslovakia and Western Germany.- 10. The Shadow of Pain. Instructions for Archaeologists Living under Dictatorship.

关于作者

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.