Chapter 2- In Context 2.3 Mapping Spatial Violence
2.3 Mapping Spatial Violence
Do the urban variables I have defined contribute to systemic, spatial violence?
In‘ Mapping Spatial Violence’ have drawn the physical, urban context of legislation and its effects on the city, it is an ongoing exercise to document the layered structural violence in Tottenham.“ Starting from what exists- the present state of affairs and its material manifestation”( Petti, Hilal, Weizman 2013). the drawing collects information from different sources of knowledge, from interviews, policy documents, and collaboration with a grassroots Migrant Support Network. It includes both the‘ eventful’ forms of violence such as flashpoints of the 2011 riots, locations of UK immigration raids) and‘ non-eventful’ forms of slow violence referred to by Nixon( 2011) such as the PSP zone and the high street shops affected by looting after the riots. Included in the mapping is the area bought under Compulsory Purchase Order( CPO) powers to assist developer Grainger Plc. in the acquisition of land for the Seven Sisters Regeneration Project. The area was home to Seven Sisters Indoor Market, a Latin American and African centre where“ public and private, social and commercial, native and foreign, are merged into a social attitude of inclusiveness” Papanicolaou( 2016).
Wood Green High Street
CEX Electronics
Visualising the constellation of historical and ongoing events begins to show how architectures of violence exist by systemic design.
“ a violence that is neither spectacular nor instantaneous”( Nixon 2011) noel park ward
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seven sisters ward
GokyuzuTurkish Restaurant tottenham green ward
public space protection zone
compulsory purchase order immigration enforcement territories riots policing territories police station Wickes hardware store