Geographies of state violence: Toward an embodied approach

This article identifies a persistent analytical asymmetry in geographical scholarship on state violence. While existing research has richly examined the structural and spatial effects of state harm, less attention has been paid to the institutional processes through which violence is enacted, justified, and normalized. In response, the article proposes an embodied perspective that redirects attention to the everyday institutional conditions through which violence becomes thinkable and legitimate. Arguing that violent space is not given but produced through organizational routines, spatial imaginaries, and justificatory practices, the article advances a theoretical reorientation for studying state violence as an embodied institutional process.