Missing the point: globalization, deterritorialization and the space of the world
By S. Elden. 2005
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This article provides a critique of a dominant strand of the literature on globalization – that which suggests it can be understood as deterritorialization. It argues that suggestions that we have moved away from territorial understandings of politics fail to conceptually elaborate the notion of territory itself. Drawing parallels between mathematics and politics in the seventeenth century, the paper claims that the notion of territory is dependent on a particular way of grasping space as calculable. This way of understanding space makes bounded territories possible, but also underlies new global configurations. In other words globalization is a reconfiguration of existing understandings rather than the radical break some suggest. The article concludes by making some comments on this reconfiguration, and suggesting that further historical and conceptual work on territory is necessary before it can be thought to be superseded.
Subfields: Cultural Studies, Demography, Political Science and International Relations
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- Rural areas face the economic crisis: Analyzing the determinants of successful territorial dynamics (2014, background): “In the field of human geography, several authors have pointed out the neglect, the little attention or the poor definition associated to the concept of territory for a long time (Elden, 2005; Painter, 2010; Raffestin, 1980).”