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The Emergence of “Modern” Territory The Emergence of “Modern” Territory
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Critical Geopolitics and Territory as a Social Relation Critical Geopolitics and Territory as a Social Relation
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Feminist Geopolitics, Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Studies, and Territory Feminist Geopolitics, Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Studies, and Territory
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In Summary and Looking Ahead In Summary and Looking Ahead
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1 Displacing the Study of Territory
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Published:July 2023
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Abstract
The concept of territory has not received the same focus and critique as cognate concepts such as states, nation-states, nations, and borders, but it is integral to the spatial division of the world and to international refugee laws and practices and thus deserves more attention. Typically, the concept of territory is associated with the state and is considered to be a discrete bounded entity or container in which politics and life unfolds. Drawing on scholarship from critical geopolitics, feminist geopolitics, postcolonial studies, and decolonial studies, this chapter examines and critiques this conventional, Western idea of territory and the state-territory nexus and asserts that there are many other forms and scales of territory that affect politics and daily life. Further, unlike conventional understandings, this chapter argues that territories are relational, social processes that constantly change. As the title of this book hints at and this chapter develops, there is a need to “displace” the conventional state-centered definition of territory and reframe territory as produced through social and political relations, as always evolving, and having many forms and scales that do not necessarily fit the modern spatial ordering of the world as discrete state-territories.
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