Theorizing violence and the dialectics of landscape memorialization : a case study of Greensboro, North Carolina

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)

TYNER, A.J.

Dept. of Geography , State Univ., Kent, Etats-Unis

INWOOD, J.F.J.

Dept. of Geography and Africana Studies Program, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, Etats-Unis

ALDERMAN, D.H.

Dept. of Geography, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, Etats-Unis

Description :
This paper constitutes an attempt to denaturalize violence through a foregrounding of ‘abstract’ and ‘concrete’ violence. Through a case study of racialized violence in Greensboro, North Carolina, it argues that geographers and other social scientists must articulate more clearly how violence, as a theoretical construct, is abstracted from the concrete realities of lived experience and represented discursively and materially on the landscape. It concludes that the potential for, and actual realized memorialization of landscapes of, violence is always and already a dialectical process of abstraction.

Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Environment and planning. D. Society and space, issn : 0263-7758, 2014, vol. 32, n°. 5, p. 902-914, nombre de pages : 13, Références bibliographiques : 3 p.

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London, Pion

Langue :
Anglais