ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the military creation of place. It considers place as physical location in order to prioritise issues of scale, tangible presence and materiality. The chapter emphasises the generative capacities of militarisation in creating and changing places, and the role of military agency in doing this. Militarisation is defined as processual and dynamic, a set of entanglements bringing together military and civilian phenomena in ways that can be observed and experienced empirically, and understood as an integral and co-constituted part of social life. Drawing on field-walking experiences from the UK city of Newcastle upon Tyne in northern England, the chapter engages with the military phenomena of conquest, defence, weapons production, military basing, and memorialisation as they are evident in this place. The chapter argues for a focus on the generative capacities of militarisation as a process that is profoundly geographical through its constitution by and expression through place.
