GEOG 316 Chapter Notes - Chapter Mapping Woman Mapping Politics: Deterritorialization, Glocalization, Intellectual Disability
1 Oct 2018
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Wastle-walter and staeheli - mapping women, making politics. Territory has a cultural component that links identity with place. A territory is an area claimed by a person or a group of people; the concept operates at a variety of scales. The area is marked by boundaries, which can be visible or symbolic. Territoriality refers to the strategies by which control is asserted over territory; relies on notions of identity and difference; a cultural strategy as well as a spatial strategy. Globalization has changed the role of the nation-state in structuring territories and territoriality: reduced ability to control what happens within its territories. Global geopolitics, new social movements, ecological threats and terrorism cannot be fixed within the bounds of single territorial states: they are deterritorialized. This usually leads to reterritorialization, a change in relationships between scales, processes and institutions. Reworking of concepts of territory and boundaries; some ways consistent with feminist arguments.
