Ebook: Spatial violence

Article was published in the «Assemblage» — 1993 — No. 20 (Violence, Space. Apr.) — pp. 84-85.Space, in contemporary discourse, as in lived experience, has taken on an almost palpable existence. Its contours, boundaries and geographies are
called up to stand in for all the contested realms of identity, from the national to the ethnic; its hollows and voids are occupied by bodies that
replicate internally the external conditions of political and social struggle, and are, likewise assumed to stand for, and identify, the sites of such struggle. Techniques of spatial occupation, of territorial mapping, of invasion and surveillance are seen as the instruments of social and individual control.