Transcendent Space, Reactionary-Modernism and the “Diabolic” Sublime: Walter Christaller, Edgar Kant, and Geography’s Origins as a Modern Spatial Science

Olwig, Karen Fog

doi:10.1080/2373566x.2017.1291310

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“…That is to say, there is a certain continuity between the urban landscape that is experienced on earth and the sky above (Ingold, 2007: 19–38). In the sky there are Turkish fighter jets that, by ritually flying over a Kurdish city, establish the dominance of the Turkish state and its ideology from a higher vantage point (Olwig, 2018; Sen, 2021, 2022).…”

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Violent infrastructure, nationalist stigmatisation and spatial erasure

Sen

2023

Politics

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This article studies the violent politics of stigmatisation and erasure of nationalist urban infrastructure. In general, urban infrastructure is a mechanism of state power. But, through the case of the imposing presence of Turkish nationalist infrastructure in the Kurdish city Diyarbakir, it demonstrates that when tied to an antagonistic nationalist political project, this infrastructure is often purposefully built to violently cleanse urban spaces of the national “other”. Be it a statue, a mural or a picture of a nationalist leader – this infrastructure is incapable of inflicting physical pain. Nonetheless, its violence is symbolic and meant to have a real effect on Diyarbakir’s Kurds’ ability and willingness to identify as Kurds. That said, violence does not entirely inform the spatial experience of those targeted by this nationalist infrastructure. The article demonstrates that Kurdish residents also found ways of remaining unaffected, even treating the infrastructure laden with Turkish nationalist iconography as a reminder of their own Kurdish identity. This article thus expands our understanding of what nationalist infrastructure does. It may be designed to be violent. However, it also reveals itself to be a site of contestation – equally inspiring the persistence of the counter-narrative of the national “other”.

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Violent infrastructure, nationalist stigmatisation and spatial erasure

Sen

2023

Politics

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“…Similarly, Kenneth Olwig notes that higher ground lets us “overlook” the middle ground that lies below. That is to say, the “elevated position” empowers one to focus on the horizon and “the scenic space.” This in turn “provides a powerfully transcendent and sublime experience of the world” unencumbered by the complexities of the middle ground (Olwig, 2018: 9).…”

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“…So, be it the manner in which HUJI sits on a hill (i.e. Mount Scopus) or the way Efrat is located on higher ground vis-a`-vis the neighbouring Palestinian village -these antagonistic landscapes (physically) tower over Palestinian communities and allow those looking out to look over or "overlook" (Olwig, 2018) Palestinians living in the valley. This ability to overlook then helps give materiality to the dream of a landscape sans Palestinian presence.…”

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Antagonistic landscapes

Sen

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This article introduces and develops the concept of “antagonistic landscapes” on the basis of fieldwork conducted in the Israeli settlement Efrat in the occupied West Bank and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem campus on Mount Scopus. The concept refers to the ways in which powerful actors antagonize “unwanted” communities by means of the physicality of the landscape. Both fieldwork sites, built on hills, use higher ground to tower over, yet overlook, the presence of “unwanted” Palestinian communities in the valleys below, thereby constituting prototypically antagonistic landscapes. That said, as expressions of utopian dreams, antagonistic landscapes require the erasure of what already exists. But, Palestinians continue to lay claim to the landscape. As a consequence then, these dreams remain utopian since by simply persisting and refusing to be entirely effaced the antagonized inscribe themselves into the fabric of the landscape. Antagonistic landscapes thus display both the dreams that the antagonizers hoped to realize, and the narratives of those whom they failed to replace.

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The International Circulation and Dissemination of Geographical Concepts and Ideas

Barnes,

Roche

2022

A Geographical Century

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Transcendent Space, Reactionary-Modernism and the “Diabolic” Sublime: Walter Christaller, Edgar Kant, and Geography’s Origins as a Modern Spatial Science

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

Violent infrastructure, nationalist stigmatisation and spatial erasure

Violent infrastructure, nationalist stigmatisation and spatial erasure

Antagonistic landscapes

The International Circulation and Dissemination of Geographical Concepts and Ideas

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