The practices of human spatial existence in a post-conflict situation

This article attempts to develop understanding of human practices in a post-conflict situation within the framework of the spatially oriented approach. Traditional methods of understanding conflicts, such as trauma studies, focus on the psycho-emotional state of the participants in a conflict. Based on the works of A. Lefebvre, M. de Certeau and G. Bachelard, the author proposes to consider this problem in a manner of Philosophical Anthropology, which allows us to identify the relationship between the experience of a post-conflict situation and everyday space of the individual. Considering the spaces of a post-conflict situation as «non-places», and based on the theoretical approach of M. de Certeau, the author proposes several tactics for a person’s staying and adaptation to a post-conflict situation. The author believes that there are two main tactics of this kind: the «tactics of immobility» and the tactics of «temporary rootedness». «Immobility» is understood as an individual’s right not to act, as an opportunity while not to form but to comprehend the probabilities of constructing new spatial connections «here and now». In addition, «immobility» is considered by the author as an opportunity to move on to the next step - «temporary rootedness». Such rootedness is characterized by more stable boundaries and spatial practices that allow us to reproduce «home» practices, and thereby find psycho-emotional and even physiological stability in the new post-conflict everyday life. The possibility of reproducing elements of the old pre-conflict existence sets the prospect of existence in a new reality.