Citation

Blomley N. Ann. Assoc. Am. Geogr. 2003; 93(1): 121-141.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Association of American Geographers, Publisher Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1111/1467-8306.93109

PMID

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Abstract

Physical violence, whether realized or implied, is important to the legitimation, foundation, and operation of a Western property regime. Certain spatializations—notably those of the frontier, the survey, and the grid—play a practical and ideological role at all these moments. Both property and space, I argue, are reproduced through various enactments. While those enactments can be symbolic, they must also be acknowledged as practical, material, and corporeal.