In the polarized Colonial world, who controls the space is of the utmost concern to all parties. A great part of the colonizers' offensive comes in the form of dividing and reorganizing the geography of the conquered territory through the use of such technologies as urban planning and road building. The result is an upheaval of established indigenous ties to the land itself, forcing the natives into the position of strangers to their own soil. It is common to find the concept of native bodies conflated with the landscape, merely more territory to parse and preside over. Once the new infrastructure has been put in place, the colonizers dedicate a great deal of time and rescources to patrolling and surveilling the imposed borders of the terroritory (both internal and external) to maintain their position of power. Transgressing borders, and manipulating and reassigning the occupation of public areas become ways to resist the control of space, and by extension , control of body and mind.