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Figure 2 Pablo Picasso’s most-recognized Cubist painting: Guernica
from Visualizing Cross-country Borderlands- An Architecture towards peace (Dissertation)
by Ananya Deb
LITERATURE REVIEW:
THE SYMBOLIC RELATIONSHIP OF ARCHITECTURE & CONFLICT
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Conflict is typically defined as an 'event' that interrupts and disrupts 'normalcy.' However, as Colin Priest argues in his paper, "conflict is inherent in society," and it's better understood as a metamorphic process in which opposing concepts and visions are voiced and root causes of major social issues, inequalities, or injustices are challenged.(Plonski et al. 2018) The degree to those conflicts has an effect on existing areas and social orders depends on the capability of communities to use internal resolution mechanisms (negotiation, strikes, argument, legal proceeding, elections, etc.) to retort to the wants and expectations of the affected population, to adapt to the new social order, to soak up and endure any variety of collective impacts.
Figure 2 Pablo Picasso’s most-recognized Cubist painting: Guernica
A particular arrangement of contention relations arises in borderlands. State presence is regularly restricted. Borderlands are usually home excessively ethnic, etymological, and family relationship bunches that ride the boundary, working with streams of exchange and developments of individuals, and those living in borderlands might see the opposite side of the line as more critical than far off capitals and financial focuses.(Plonski et al. 2018)
“Borderlands can be contested spaces that become havens for resistance movements and were nonstate actors clash with state institutions.”
The origination of reality in zones of conflict are set apart by a 'culture of war and occupation’, the social development of contention and occupation, impacted by dangers and sensations of dread, feelings, recollections of past contentions, momentary practices or relocations, personalities, and informal communities. This can be interpreted as a type of emblematic brutality, as defined by Pierre Bourdieu as "undetectable", "delicate, 'the viciousness that explicitly points to upsetting the lineage, grounded values, and representative articulation of a gathering." It causes feelings of weakness, shortcoming, or feebleness. (Sibi n.d.)
