Territory as an institution: spatial ideas, practices and technologies
| Autor: | Jordan Branch |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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International relations
History of political thought Political geography Corporate governance media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development 0507 social and economic geography Identity (social science) 0506 political science Politics Foreign policy Political economy Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Institution Sociology Social science 050703 geography media_common |
| Zdroj: | Territory, Politics, Governance. 5:131-144 |
| ISSN: | 2162-268X 2162-2671 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/21622671.2016.1265464 |
| Popis: | Territory as an institution: spatial ideas, practices and technologies. Territory, Politics, Governance. Territory is unquestionably central to many topics in international relations: political identity, foreign policy orientations, and political conflict at multiple levels, from disputes over land to civil and interstate wars. But what, exactly, is ‘territory’ in these contexts? This paper argues that territory can be usefully conceptualized as the intersection of a set of ideas, practices and technologies: namely ideas about political space, practices of political authority and rule, and technologies relating to information and infrastructure. Together, these three interrelated fields constitute the institution of territory. Thinking about territory through this particular institutional lens allows insights from a variety of fields – including institutionalist analysis in political science, the history of political thought, science and technology studies, and political geography – to be applied.... |
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