Event Description
In this short exploratory presentation, Richard Nisa will bring environmental and military history together to explore the evolving post-war infrastructures of US-managed military detainment. Far from simple remote sites of enclosure built and populated during wartime, in their physical locations as well as the resources, tools, and techniques used to move captives around the battlefield, wartime detention infrastructures are consequential environments. After a brief discussion of cold-war detention infrastructures, the talk ends with a nod towards the increasing centrality of digital computation tools in military conflict. Here he will make the argument that in accounting for the environmental impacts of war—what some scholars have recently called the carbon bootprint—attention should be paid to the entwined story of military detainment and the expanding energy impacts of global data infrastructures.

Attendance
Expected audience is 20 people; there is no limit. We welcome scholars and interested community members.

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Contact
Christopher Phillips
cphillip@andrew.cmu.edu

Organization
Carnegie Mellon University History Department
https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/history/index.html

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