Landscapes of Conflict: Introduction

Abstract

This section explores how landscapes function as dynamic sites of conflict, memory, and heritage. Moving beyond binary understandings of landscape as either material or symbolic, the contributions highlight how landscapes actively mediate histories of violence, displacement, and commemoration. Drawing from interdisciplinary approaches in geography, architecture, heritage, and memory studies, the essays examine diverse terrains—battlefields, colonial sites, national monuments, and spaces of exception such as refugee camps—to reveal how landscapes become contested arenas where memory, identity, and power intersect. Organized into four thematic constellations—Battlefields and Martial Terrains, ..