Journal Article

On territory, the nation-state and the crisis of the hyphen

Antonsich, Marco

2009

نظرة عامة

In an epoch of networks, flows and global mobility, the notion of territory as a politico-institutional bounded space needs further investigation. Besides studying territory as a symbolic resource in nationalist discourses, a control device in the hands of the state or a ‘spatial fix’ in the process of capital accumulation and reproduction, geographers should also explore how territory remains implicated in and implicates discourses and practices of societal integration, belonging and loyalty beyond the national rhetoric of ‘one territory, one people’. The article illustrates this argument by focusing on the case of Western Europe.

• الناشر: SAGE Publications,Arnold,Sage Publications Ltd
• موضوع: Bgi / Prodig / Borders / Cultural identity / Discourse / Geography / Globalization / Human geography / Identity formation / Identity politics / Multiculturalism / Multiculturalism & pluralism / Nation state / Nation states / National Identity / Nationalism / Political and economic geography / Political geography / Rhetoric / Social Integration / State-society relations / Territoriality / Territory / Western Europe