Przestrzenno-materialny krajobraz obozu koncentracyjnego
The Spatial and Material Landscape of a Concentration Camp

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the problem of construction of a total institution by means of analyzing its spatial and material aspects. The subject of the analysis is the concentration camp at Majdanek (KL Lublin), while the biographical approach serves as a theoretical toolbox. The article consists of three main components. It begins with the reconstruction of the research methodolo­gy, where I explain the theoretical basis of the work as well as two variants of the way of examining biographies, namely space and items. Here I also define the framework of the research data and the way of interpreting it. Then, I proceed to addressing the problem of the space and the material structure of the concentration camp in Majdanek, which I do by considering the history and spatial organization of concentration camps, their symbolic dimension, and the ecological pattern.

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