DARK MIRROR: HETEROTOPIA, UTOPIA, AND THE EXTERMINATION CAMPS OF OPERATION REINHARD

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dc.contributor.advisorKorzeniewicz, Roberto Pen_US
dc.contributor.authorWanenchak, Sarahen_US
dc.contributor.departmentSociologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-01T06:32:19Z
dc.date.available2020-02-01T06:32:19Z
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.description.abstractIn Michel Foucault's body of work, the notion of heterotopia stands out as both particularly intriguing and particularly underdeveloped. Introduced in the introduction of The Order of Things (first published 1966) and further described in the lecture “Of Other Spaces” (1967), heterotopia has been used by scholars in a variety of fields, from social theory to architecture. Of special interest is the way Foucault describes the relationship between heterotopia and utopia, one defined by its liminal nature and the other by its unreality. This work seeks to shed new light on that relationship, by focusing on heterotopias as threshold spaces between the real social world and the perfected but unreal world to come. I approach the concept of utopia with an eye toward its eliminationist implications, and use three extermination camps established as part of the Nazi regime’s Operation Reinhard as cases through which to explore significant features of a heterotopia, how those features manifest in these cases, and what connects these spaces to the world that can be glimpsed in the mirror they create. Although I primarily use historical cases as a way to expand existing theory, I aim to build upon that expansion by pointing the way toward the development of new theoretical tools for historical-comparative analysis of spaces of both extermination and detention. Finally, I suggest that work might be done focusing on embodied identities as themselves forms of heterotopia, which introduces possibilities for additional analysis of the roles of bodies and identity in cases of certain kinds of mass violence and death.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/mcdr-u3su
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/25370
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSociologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistoryen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPhilosophyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBelzecen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFoucaulten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledheterotopiaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHolocausten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSobiboren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTreblinkaen_US
dc.titleDARK MIRROR: HETEROTOPIA, UTOPIA, AND THE EXTERMINATION CAMPS OF OPERATION REINHARDen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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