ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the idea that historical recurrence (“history repeats itself”) is engineered by the State to instil social acceptance and complicity. This is the power the State wields, that which the populace gives it. State power holds dominion over its populace and is always concerned with never losing its foothold on that control. The identification of populations in conceptualising the “Geographies of Threat” can be seen through the process and tradition of map making. Cities of the colonies and in the seats of the Empire ushered in a modern era of city design, but also tools for population management through congregation, enclosure, segregation, and collection. This infrastructural manifestation of the city led to the mass and disparate process of categorising its respective populations. The racialised and ethnitised identity manifestation of people, in association with their position in the State (as coloniser or colonised in the colonial city project; the various class structures, statuses, racial categories, or gendering role/function), is one of the primary ways that social life is spatially organised. As States no longer need to fully administer warfare, the subtleties of the city are one way to segmentise and pacify the identified populations of the city.
