ABSTRACT
Social spaces are susceptible to conflicts. On the other hand, conflicts often tend to occupy various social spaces while they are being played out. These observations are connected to the fact that power relations are always embedded in the reproduction of spaces. Hence, it is surprising that for a sustained period scholars neglected or only briefly investigated the interdependencies between social spaces and conflicts. However, towards the end of the twentieth century, the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences associated with the understanding of spaces as socially constructed phenomena changed the situation. Now, the spatial dimension of social action appears to be a central concern of historians from many subdisciplines. Against the background of this interdependency between social actions and social spaces, the various practices of using, marking and violating social spaces in the context of ongoing quarrels become highly significant.
