Territorial Cleansing: A Geopolitical Approach to Understanding Mass Violence

Egbert, Stephen L.; Pickett, Nathaniel Ray; Reiz, Nicole; Price, William R.; Thelen, Austen; Artman, Vincent M.

doi:10.1080/21622671.2015.1036911

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“…Research shows that land dispossession and forced migration created the groundwork for contemporary conditions in which Indigenous peoples in the United States today face greater vulnerabilities to their health and food security, lack access to culturally appropriate education, and have heightened exposures to contaminants (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8). Despite substantial scholarly attention to these issues, research has been primarily qualitative and based on case studies, circumscribed to detailed historical and anthropological accounts, often of an individual tribe or region (9)(10)(11)(12)(13). Or studies have primarily focused on rough estimates of the loss of property as measured in acres, such as the oftcited figure that 90 million acres of land were lost through allotment of Indigenous lands under the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 (14).…”

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Effects of land dispossession and forced migration on Indigenous peoples in North America

Farrell

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Science

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Long-term impacts of land dispossession To date, we lack precise estimates of the extent to which Indigenous peoples in parts of North America were dispossessed of their lands and forced to migrate by colonial settlers, as well as how the lands that they were moved into compare to their original lands. Farrell et al . constructed a new dataset within the boundaries of the current-day United States and found that Indigenous land density and spread in has been reduced by nearly 99% (see the Perspective by Fixico). The lands to which they were forcibly migrated are more vulnerable to climate change and contain fewer resources. Research and policy implications of these findings are discussed. —TSR

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Effects of land dispossession and forced migration on Indigenous peoples in North America

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“…The need for public safety by local populations creates venues to attain protection as a form of collective goods. The in-group's formulation of an imagined place consists of its own ideals and values that target the eradication of undesired elements from the territory(Egbert et al 2016). The imagined bandits demonstrate the need of an imagined territory in which social control of that territory is sustained by state authority through cleansing unwanted bandit groups.…”

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Crime, bandits, and community: how public panic shaped the social control of territory in the Ottoman Empire

Cayli

2018

Territory, Politics, Governance

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Crime, bandits, and community: how public panic shaped the social control of territory in the Ottoman EmpireThis study explores the role of crime, bandits, and public panic in in the nineteenth century Ottoman society by using archival documents and employing a comparative perspective. In addition to the social bandit concept of Eric Hobsbawm, there is an introduction of two new banditry forms in this study-opportunist bandits and imagined bandits. The comparison of different bandits clarifies that social bandits and opportunist bandits aggravated public panic and produced imagined bandits. Hence, public panic and the dissent of local people unveiled through rumors about the imagined bandits. The exploration of different forms of bandits in the Ottoman Empire is a response to the vexed issue concerning the challenges in the social control of territories in a multiethnic and multi-religious empire. This study provides new conceptual tools to rethink about the spatial dimensions in the emergence of bandits. This article shows that spatial factors in the social control of territory can be influenced by the reaction of local people from bottom-to-top and, in doing so, the spatial factors can determine the response of state authority.The present study, therefore, unveils the power relationship in the social control of territory whether it is manifested by physical force or public panic.

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Genocide

Tyner

2021

International Encyclopedia of Geography

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Genocide is an inherently spatial process, and yet, until recently, geographers have not readily engaged with the topic. This has changed, however, and geographers now stand alongside historians, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, and other social scientists in the study of historical and contemporary genocides. In so doing, geographers have forwarded myriad geospatial technologies to better understand the complex historical‐geographical processes that underscore genocide and to work toward the prevention of genocide and related forms of mass violence.

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Territorial Cleansing: A Geopolitical Approach to Understanding Mass Violence

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Effects of land dispossession and forced migration on Indigenous peoples in North America

Effects of land dispossession and forced migration on Indigenous peoples in North America

Crime, bandits, and community: how public panic shaped the social control of territory in the Ottoman Empire

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