Spatial Conflict: A Theoretical Essay on the Contact of Civilizations at Different Levels

Abstract

The main thesis of this study is that social struggles between civilizations at different levels actually have a spatial dimention. This dimention expresses not only those social struggles having locational properties but also -even more frequently- huge differences in the perceptions of the conflicting groups about space. Accordingly, in order to justify the thesis that social struggles can actually be read as a spatial conflict, and even huge differences related to spatial perception may lead to social conflicts, the encounters and resultant conflicts in Pandora as a fictional experiment and in Americas as a historical experiment are theoretically interpreted.