The prison as a postmilitary landscape

Moran, Dominique; Turner, Jennifer

doi:10.1080/14649365.2021.1983860

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“…The rate of human use of these units is certainly related to the access restrictions. The data shows that most of these units are open and therefore accessible (26), a large proportion is accessible due to overcoming barriers (12), while only one unit of the SA-CEFs is completely closed and therefore inaccessible-Figure 4B. These were, for example, SA-CEFs in front of whose entrance was overgrown with trees, bushes, and/or partially grounded.…”

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“…Some relics of post-military landscapes are even included in the World Heritage List (e.g., Atlantic Wall, The Great Wall in China) [6]. Military landscape (more precisely post-military landscape) is the result of the interaction of natural and anthropogenic factors (economic, technical, political, and cultural human influence) that are bound to a specific area with a common history [7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Human military activity affects not only the appearance but also the structure and function of the landscape.…”

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Units of Military Fortification Complex as Phenomenon Elements of the Czech Borderlands Landscape

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Vodova

2022

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This paper is focused on selected units of casemates with enhanced fortification in the military fortification complex of the Czech borderlands landscape as specific forms of brownfields. They represent a functional system that interacts with surrounding nature, landscape character, and human society. Four approaches were chosen to study the function and potential of selected individual abandoned casemates with enhanced fortification, where each of them corresponds to one of the four landscape layers: genius loci, socio-economic sphere, functional relationship (between human and the landscape), and natural conditions. There is a corresponding research method for each of the landscape layers (guided interview with respondents, data analysis on abandoned casemates with enhanced fortifications as brownfields, analysis of their landscape functions, and zoological survey of interior). The main results could show that abandoned casemates with enhanced fortifications can play important roles in all landscape layers: stories and genius loci, abandoned casemates with enhanced fortification as a special type of military brownfield but also as a semi-natural ecosystem, and the same time as a habitat for invertebrates. The analyses and surveys conducted clearly demonstrate that abandoned casemates with enhanced fortification as units of military fortification complex of the Czech borderlands landscape perform several hidden important functions in the landscape for which they cannot be viewed as brownfields. This hidden functional potential is most likely best described by the concept of hidden singularity, which offers itself for integration into basic approaches to brownfields.

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Units of Military Fortification Complex as Phenomenon Elements of the Czech Borderlands Landscape

Kupka

Brazdova

Vodova

2022

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“…In recent years, the ‘edgelands’ have taken various forms, including a Dutch Asylum Seekers' Residence Centre (ASRC) (Bernardt et al., 2017), prisons and military bases (Moran & Turner, 2021), the natural borders that occur on landscapes and between the rural and the urban (Beck, 2021; Farley & Roberts, 2012; Gurrey, 2017), and the roads and walls that carve political boundaries (Bleibleh, 2015; Pullan, 2013). Adding to these interpretations, the occupation of Palestine‐Israel raises the possibility of other edgelands, whether in the form of the military in training zones who present an embodied edgeland , the checkpoints that shift at short notice and present a moveable edgeland , or the Separation Wall and its static checkpoints, which track and control Palestinian movement on a daily basis and are a reminder of the larger occupying edgeland that threads the landscape like cement veins.…”

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A Tapestry of Edgelands: Defining Carceral Edgeland(s) in Masafer Yatta (Firing Zone 918)

Gandolfo¹

2023

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The carceral edgeland occupies a unique position. At times, it is acknowledged; at others, it remains unseen by those outside its boundaries. In cases where the edgeland is architectural, such as a prison or a detention center, it can prompt viewers to consider the power dynamics exercised within. This article, however, is concerned with the possibilities for the edgeland to be moveable and embodied. Focusing on the transformation of the area of Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank into a military training zone, the article shifts the discourse from the connection between the edgeland and the symbolic power of carceral architecture to suggest alternative carceral edgelands: the occupying edgeland, wherein the moveable and embodied converge to form a tapestry of edgelands. The Israeli military presence varies in intensity, yet the result is the realization of Achille Mbembe's ‘infrastructural warfare’ (2003) that manifests through the moveable edgeland, and second, the embodied edgeland that is enacted by the military personnel who symbolize the state. In Masafer Yatta, the army's long‐term presence has had an impact on the communities that evokes Lauren Berlant's ‘political depression’ (2011). Building on Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts' recognition of multitudinous edgelands (2012), this article suggests that there can be multiple carceral edgelands at one site, all of which facilitate exclusion and political depression through enclosure, whether through fences, walls, or moveable checkpoints.

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Carceral and military geographies: Prisons, the military and war

Moran

Turner

2022

Progress in Human Geography

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Geographers have expanded notions of the carceral, the military and war far beyond conventional ideas of the prison, the armed forces of the nation state and armed conflict, thus situating spaces of confinement, surveillance and monitoring in deep histories of violence. Nevertheless, we argue that renewed attention to these ‘conventional’ institutions reveals unanswered questions about prisons during and after war, conversion of military bases, and deployment of ex-military personnel, whose exploration would enhance understandings of the nature of the carceral, and the relationship between ‘military’ and ‘civilian’.

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The prison as a postmilitary landscape

Abstract: Cet article ajoute aux débats sur les environnements militaires et post-militaires, et la théorisation préalable sur le complexe carcéromilitaire. Ce faisant, il souligne les synergies, qui n'ont fait jusque-là ARTICLE HISTORY

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Units of Military Fortification Complex as Phenomenon Elements of the Czech Borderlands Landscape

Units of Military Fortification Complex as Phenomenon Elements of the Czech Borderlands Landscape

A Tapestry of Edgelands: Defining Carceral Edgeland(s) in Masafer Yatta (Firing Zone 918)

Carceral and military geographies: Prisons, the military and war

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