期刊名称:Liminalities : a Journal of Performance Studies
电子版ISSN:1557-2935
出版年度:2012
卷号:4
期号:1
出版社:Liminalities
摘要:Demolition of spaces of "the other" and construction of borders to control coming and going have been common practice among city builders for millennia. Walls and weapons of force remain essential aspects of space wars. However, space wars can play out in ways that move beyond physical destruction, fortification, and military hardware. Economic and semiotic space wars are driving forces behind contemporary production of urban space (Fairclough et. al.). Urban transformation processes are largely the outcome of space wars in that deliberate and systematic creative destruction is part of the logic behind current capitalist space economy. These spatial struggles have often been staged in city streets