The word ‘territory’ has taken on renewed significance in a
world where its close association with state sovereignty has made a
serious comeback, invoked alike by proponents of Brexit in the UK,
‘Making America Great Again’ in the USA, and myriad populists
from India to Brazil by way of Italy and Hungary. The word has had
a contentious history in social science and political theory. In
its first seven years, the journal Territory, Politics, Governance
has published numerous articles examining the ways in which
territory figures into contemporary political debates and its
limits as a concept when applied to a world in which sovereignty
never has simply pooled up within self-evidently distinctive blocs
of space named as ‘territories.’ Among other things, the limits
of territory are apparent in terms of the history of a global
capitalism that always bursts beyond established boundaries, the
fact that some states are much more powerful and exercise much more
spatial reach than do others, and that the political uses of
territory in its current usage date back predominantly to
seventeenth century Europe rather than being historically
transcendental or worldwide. The articles in this book are selected
from Territory, Politics, Governance to survey many of the dilemmas
and questions that haunt the concept of territory even as its
current efflorescence in political discourse ignores them.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Regions and Cities |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
First published: |
2021 |
Editors: |
John Agnew
|
Dimensions: |
246 x 174mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
204 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-367-56071-3 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-367-56071-2 |
Barcode: |
9780367560713 |
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