Territory of Violence: a geographical look at Urban Violence

Abstract

This assignment deals with the violence from a geographical point of view, that is, space. However, it is not the spacing of the phenomenon of the violence; it is the place where it occurs. It is the “territoriality”, the construction of the territory of violence. It implies in feeding the violence from the inertia and from the importance that the space has in the social process. Therefore, the possibility of this “territoriality” in the construction of the urban space would always exist, within the logic of the current social processes. On one hand, the extreme treasured urban space, on the other hand, the exclusion of the population social layers and their activities. This unlawful space becomes the perfect place for illegality, it becomes illegality’s headquarters and the poor population is its reserved army. Thus, the space feeds the perverse face of the exculpatory social process of the urban violence. The assignment deals with the production of the territory of violence within the Federal District, Brasilia.