Politics by Design:: Remapping Security Landscapes

In: European journal of international relations, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 327-345

Abstract

Drawing upon recent work in human geography, postmodernity and studies of public space, this article suggests the importance of spatial representation and architecture to issues of global security. It argues that architecture cannot be understood independently from the larger landscapes on which it is situated — and whose identity it helps to constitute. This relationship, among landscape, human habitation and politics, illuminates contemporary issues, both theoretical and political, regarding the contested spaces of security in a post-Cold War era of unsettled geopolitics.