The location of military structures and relations with the territory as a form of situated power

Abstract

Military structures and activities have a strong role in the evolution of a territory. They can exercise a kind of power at different scales both during conflicts and in non-conflict spaces and time. Barracks, polygons, training areas but also communication infrastructures therefore represent an opportunity to reflect, starting from material elements, on the militarization processes of societies. Moving within a perspective of critical military geography, the contribution analyzes how the location of military structures and their presence could be a form of situated power, proposing a reading of the military presence that can contribute to the construction of an extended reflection on militarization of places and societies.