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Territories : the Claiming of Space.
Politics and political relationships underpin the world we live in. From the division of the earth's surface into separate states to the placement of 'keep out' signs, territorial strategies to control geographic space can be used to assert, maintain or resist power and as a force for...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Territories; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Territory at a macro-scale; Territory at a micro-scale; Territory and power; Structure of the book; Further reading; 2. Territory and territoriality; Naturalizing territoriality; Socialized territoriality; The production of territory; Territory, identity and place; Summary; Further reading; 3. The territorial state; Origins of states; Key features of states; The role and functions of the state; Theories of the state; Citizenship; Summary; Further reading; 4. Nations and nationalism.
- Nation and stateThe origins of nations; National identity; Nationalism; Forms of nationalism; The role and functions of nationalism; Summary; Further reading; 5. Nationalism, territory and place; The importance of history; Territory and nation; Territory, place and nationalism in the Balkans; Four green fields; Promised land; England's green and pleasant land; Summary; Further reading; 6. The future of the sovereign state; State failure; The end of the state?; Do states still matter?; Summary; Further reading; 7. Territory, locality and community; Sub-state territorializations.
- Rolling back the state: from government to governanceAdministrative divisions and a sense of place; Community and locality; Summary; Further reading; 8. Territory and society; Class and segregation; Ethnicity, 'race' and space; Geographies of resistance; Gendered space; Sexuality and space; Work, rest and play; Summary; Further reading; 9. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.