ABSTRACT
Camps ride crests of the contemporary. Along the ebb and flow of migration and urbanism, camps register the earliest stages of local and global change. Harbingers and warnings, both familiar and obscure, camps disclose present exigencies and immanent archetypes of contemporary responses to crisis. Their agility—in mobility as well as ideology—allows camps to make visible and provide room for conditions that might otherwise remain without space, as they adapt to objectives informed by freedom, need, and power. This chapter investigates camps of autonomy, necessity, and control as critical sub-categories to understand the contemporary environments we make.
