This article engages with the spatial turn in the analyses of and activism against political violence. It does so through an ethnography of memory activism around an arson attack in Turkey, which took place in 1993 in the central-eastern city of Sivas before live TV cameras and thousands of onlookers, including law enforcement officers. The attack killed 33 guests of a culture festival organized by an association representing Alevism, one of Turkey?s demographically minor faiths. A prevalent approach to remembering the arson attack has hinged on mobilizing testimony?s cognates witnessing and martyrdom as spatial mechanisms, drawing on the site of the arson attack and/or its widely televised images. This mobilization has followed its contemporaries from around the world in that it has considered violence?s effects on the subjectivity of its spatial witnesses reducible to unambiguous subject positions adopted in discrete historical moments, using the affective trope of shame to rigidify and hierarchize this positionality. In-depth conversations with, and observations among, memory activists discussed in this article, however, indicate two reasons why this consideration might be limited. First, the mutual impact between activists? subjectivity and each in-person or visually mediated encounter they have had with the site of the arson attack has taken shape in entanglement with rather than in isolation from other such encounters. Second, the historical moments featuring in these encounters are also manifold rather than singular. The article argues that the politics of spatial testimony hinges on this manifoldness and entanglement.

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空间证词政治：土耳其在广泛进行电视广播和集体实施纵火袭击期间及之后，在见证难与羞辱方面的作用

本文涉及对政治暴力的分析和行动主义的空间转向。它是通过围绕在土耳其纵火袭击中的记忆激进民族志而做到的，这是1993年在中东部城市锡瓦斯发生的，当时现场电视摄像机和成千上万的围观者包括执法人员在此发生。这次袭击杀害了由代表Alevism的协会组织的文化节的33名客人，Alevism是土耳其的人口小信仰之一。记住纵火袭击的一种普遍方法取决于动员证词的目击者和难作为空间机制，利用纵火袭击的地点和/或其广泛的电视图像。这种动员跟随了世界各地的人们，因为它考虑了暴力对其空间证人的主观性的影响，这些影响可以还原为离散的历史时刻所采用的明确主体位置，并使用情感羞辱感来强化和划分这种位置性。但是，与本文讨论的内存活动家进行的深入对话和观察表明，这种考虑可能受到限制的两个原因。首先，维权人士之间的相互影响？主观性以及他们与纵火袭击地点所经历的每一次亲身或视觉媒介的相遇，都是与其他相遇而不是孤立地纠缠在一起而形成的。其次，这些相遇中的历史时刻也是多方面的，而不是单一的。