Appropriating Division: Exploring ontologically how material artefacts command spatial differentiation in Israel-Palestine and Apartheid South Africa.

我们理解自己的基础是我们不是谁。在一个不平等的，但整合的世界框架内，社会分裂日益根深蒂固，这种差异本体变得更加明显。差异被编织到景观的社会结构中。通过硬边界出现：墙壁和栅栏和软物质：文化文物和日常生活的平庸符号，政治空间被明显分离，因为物质对象在自然地理的轮廓上工作，创造和维持分裂的景观。然而，这些充满活力的材料却被国内研究所忽视。这个项目试图为这一点带来启示，并探索物质人工制品如何在景观和边界上控制差异（Rajaram和Grundy-Warr，2007），（重新）产生我们与它们的关系。在当代以色列-巴勒斯坦和种族隔离时代的南非，领土和种族是这一作品中比较的具体空间差异。两者都提供了在地图上绘制的线条之外划分的景观，同时为它们的发生提供了比较变量。最终，该项目着眼于人类与物体的互动如何反映他们（再）产生的想象力。也就是说，如果一个行动者具有霸权性的力量，他就可以自主地生产一个物体，这个物体将特定的话语观点铭刻到空间中。相反，那些空间锚点被物体连根拔起的人，可以把它当作武器来减轻空间效应。

We understand ourselves on the basis of who we are not.Within the frame of an unequal, yet integrated worldincreasingly entrenched with social division, thisdifferential ontology is becoming more apparent.Difference is woven into the social fabric of landscapes.Emerging through hard borders: walls and fences and softermaterialities: cultural artefacts and banal symbols ofeveryday life, political space is starkly separated, asmaterial objects work over the contours of physicalgeography, creating and maintaining divided landscapes.Yet these vibrant materialities have been neglected inborder studies. This project seeks to bring light to this andexplore how material artefacts command difference overlandscapes and borderscapes (Rajaram and Grundy-Warr,2007), (re)producing our relationships to them. Territoryand ethnicity are the specific spatial differences comparedin this work, in the locales of contemporary Israel-Palestineand Apartheid-era South Africa. Both offer landscapesdivided on lines beyond those drawn on a map, whilstoffering comparative variables for their occurrence.Ultimately, the project looks at how human interaction withobjects reflects the imaginations they (re)produce. Namely,if hegemonically powerful, an actor can have autonomyover producing an object that inscribes into space a specificdiscursive view. Conversely, those whose spatial anchorsare uprooted by the object, can appropriate it as a weaponto mitigate the spatial effects.