Where war inhabits: reflections on spaces of war

In this chapter we reflect upon how the contributions in this book have enriched our understanding of war and media through the foregrounding of the dynamic quality of spaces in which war is enacted, encountered and contested, where the space shifts and alters according to the various actors who inhabit them and the accrual of their inhabitation. We argue that what emerges most from the evolving spatial and temporal dimensions of these spaces is the overarching theme of bodies and the fundamentally embodied nature of war and its relationship to space. We explore this in two key ways: bodily presence/absence, and embodied participation to draw attention to the ways in which bodies inhabit and (re)configure spaces of war in a manner that is complex but critical to our future understanding of war space configuration.