This article suggests that focusing on situational, interactional space provides a fruitful addition to understanding protest dynamics and the emergence of violence in protests. It suggests connecting insights from social movement research and violence research to examine what happens spatially during a protest. Examining how space can be conceptualized situationally, the article then employs document and visual data, participant observation, and interviews in a qualitative analysis and cross-case comparison of protest marches. Situational space is studied in peaceful and violent marches during three social movements (Global Justice Movement, New Social Movements, 1960s student movement). Findings suggest that a clearly defined, transparent concept of situational space during protest marches can be useful in understanding the unfolding of protest events and that situational space is of particular relevance for the emergence of protest violence. Space is not only a common comfort zone, but for protests, territory also consists of implicit power relations. Thus, spatial incursions by police officers or protesters during protests into space assigned to the other group drastically change dynamics during protest marches, lead to mistrust and rising tensions, and form a crucial bedrock for violent eruptions.

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“谁的街道？我们的街道！”：抗议中的空间和暴力谈判

本文表明，关注情境、互动空间为理解抗议动态和抗议中暴力的出现提供了富有成效的补充。它建议将社会运动研究和暴力研究的见解联系起来，以检查抗议期间空间上发生的事情。研究如何在情境中对空间进行概念化，然后文章在定性分析和抗议游行的跨案例比较中使用文档和视觉数据、参与观察和访谈。在三个社会运动（全球正义运动、新社会运动、1960 年代学生运动）期间的和平与暴力游行中研究了情境空间。调查结果表明，一个明确定义的，抗议游行期间情境空间的透明概念有助于理解抗议事件的展开，并且情境空间与抗议暴力的出现特别相关。空间不仅是一个共同的舒适区，对于抗议来说，领土也包含着隐含的权力关系。因此，在抗议期间警察或抗议者对分配给另一个群体的空间的空间侵入极大地改变了抗议游行期间的动态，导致不信任和紧张局势加剧，并成为暴力爆发的重要基石。