Landscape ; Memorial monument ; North Carolina ; Race ; Social geography ; United States of America ; Violence
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.