IBV: Spatial Boundaries w4 "Claiming space and imaging the state"

Question 1

Boundary (un) making

Answer 1

people draw boundaries with

a) words (narrative texts - telling each other apart),
b) with practices action (by acting out stereotypes, by avoidance, out acts of physical hurt)
c) and with things/matter (material form)

Question 2

Spatial Turn

Answer 2

Question: What does space mean? Focus on connections between space, meaning and power.

E.g. Building offer clues suggest how people should act / relationship with one another.
Idea is then to read society through its built environment.

Question 3

Conflict as claiming space

Answer 3

Conflict is about the struggle over the meaning of space / sorting of populations.

Claiming space (-as your home)
How is space demarcated, by whom / why?

Question 4

Space

Answer 4

is constant claimed and framed by actors in their effort to produce a ‘sense of place’

‘sense of place’ = ‘sense of home’

Question 5

Place

Answer 5

is space filled up by people, practices, objects and representation (Gieryn)

Question 6

Legitimacy

Answer 6

Legitimacy is defined in terms of willingsness of people to do what you want.

• De jure legitimacy: an authority’s being legitimate with respect to valid normes (what it should be … in normative terms)
• De facto legitimacy: an authority’s being taken to be legitimate (the actual practices - in analytical terms)

Question 7

State as imagined

Answer 7

States are imagined as constructed entities that are conceptualized and made socially effective through particular imaginative and symbolic devices.

Question 8

Vertical encompassment

Answer 8

State as both ‘above’ and ‘around’ us

1. vertical: state as knowing, god-like protective force
2. encompassment: state is located in an ever widening series of circles

E.g. “Fietsendief je bent gezien”

Question 9

Spatialization of the state

Answer 9

metaphors and practices through which the state presents (themselves) as superior to other(s) and institutions

Question 10

Vertical topography of power

Answer 10

States are performed as concrete entities with spatial properties - as ‘above us’ and ‘containing us’

E.g. pyramid

Question 11

Mimicking the state

Answer 11

Actors in conflict ‘mimic’ the state - they try to discipline us into the script of e.g. Islamic State

Question 12

State effect

Answer 12

Statehood is in constant need of legitimizing, the state needs to remind us it is ‘there’ this is the state effect.

Question 13

State as assemblage

Answer 13

The state is not an actual structure (as a ‘body’) but rather define state as the powerful effect of practices: as a broad set of governing relations and practices that are often expressed spatially.

Question 14

Governmentality

Answer 14

all processes by which the conduct (behavior) of a population is governed