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On territory, the nation-state and the crisis of the hyphen
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. © The Author(s), 2009.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Citation
ANTONSICH, M., 2009. On territory, the nation-state and the crisis of the hyphen. Progress in Human Geography, 33 (6), pp. 789 - 806.Publisher
Sage © the authorVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2009Notes
This article was published in the journal, Progress in Human Geography [Sage © the author] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132508104996ISSN
0309-1325Publisher version
Language
- en