Territory, Compartments and Borders: Avoiding the Trap of the Territorial Trap

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Notes

1. P. Taylor, ‘Territorial Absolutism and its Evasions’, Geography Research Forum 16 (1996) pp. 1–12.

2. See, for instance, J. Minghi, ‘Boundary studies in political geography’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 53 (1963) pp. 407–428; V. Prescott, The Geography of Frontiers and Boundaries (London: Hutchinson 1965); G. Blake, ‘State Limits in the Early 21^st Century: Observations on Form and Function’, Geopolitics 5/1 (2000) pp. 1–18.

3. See, D. Elazar et al., ‘Political Science, Geography and the Spatial Dimension of Politics’, Political Geography 18/8 (1999) pp. 875–886; D. Newman, ‘Borders and Bordering: Towards an Interdisciplinary Dialogue’, European Journal of Social Theory 9/2 (2006) pp. 171–186.

4. See, for instance, P. Taylor, ‘The State as a Container: Territoriality in the Modern World System”’, Progress in Human Geography 18 (1994) pp. 151–162; R. Johnston, ‘Territoriality and the State’, in Georges B. Benko and Ulf Strohmayer (eds.), Geography, History and Social Sciences (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1995); A. Paasi, ‘Boundaries as Social Processes: Territoriality in the World of Flows’, Geopolitics 3/1 (1998) pp. 69–88.

5. D. Newman, ‘The Resilience of Territorial Conflict in an Era of Globalization’, in M. Kahler and B. Walter (eds.), Globalization, Territoriality and Conflict (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006) pp. 85–110.

6. For recent analyses of the changing conceptualization of borders, see D. Newman and A. Paasi, ‘Fences and Neighbours in the Post-Modern World: Boundary Narratives in Political Geography’, Progress in Human Geography 22/2 (1998) pp. 186–207; V. Kolossov, ‘Border Studies: Changing Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches’, Geopolitics 10/4 (2005); A. Paasi, ‘Generations and the Development of Border Studies’, Geopolitics 10/4 (2005); E. Brunet-Jailly, ‘Toward a Model of Border Studies’, Journal of Borderland Studies 19/1 (2004) pp. 1–18; D. Newman, ‘The Lines that Continue to Separate Us: Borders in a Borderless World’, Progress in Human Geography 30/2 (2006) pp. 1–19.

7. See, for instance,. A. Paasi, ‘Boundaries as Social Processes: Territoriality in the World of Flows’, Geopolitics 3/1 (1998) pp. 69–88; J. Agnew, Globalization and Sovereignty (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield 2009) pp. 216.