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Introduction: Methods, Concepts and Theories

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The introduction provides an overview of the subsequent analysis and a tentative classification of different types of camps, and an identification of the contributions of various academic disciplines to an understanding of camps. It also offers an explanation of the methodology, which is primarily functionalist, focusing on the functions of encampment, but also historical and dialectical in the sense of looking throughout at functional equivalents of encampment. It also introduces the theoretical concept of heteronomy, drawn from Michel Foucault.

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    Bjørn Møller (Professor, Lecturer)

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Møller, B. (2015). Introduction: Methods, Concepts and Theories. In: Refugees, Prisoners and Camps: A Functional Analysis of the Phenomenon of Encampment. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137502797_1

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