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Book: Historical Archaeologies of Cognition

Chapter: 9. Resistance, the Body and the V-sign Campaign in Channel Islander World War II German Internment Camps

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.21643

Blurb:

This chapter explores how the campaign of resistance carried out by Channel Islanders in their German internment camps,was made manifest in the internment camps using the medium of the body as the prime locus of (safe) expression, supplemented by symbolic statements constructed from the recycled contents of Red Cross parcels.

Chapter Contributors

  • Gillian Carr (carr@equinoxpub.com - carr) 'University of Cambridge'