Identity and Territory

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Notes

1. J. A. Agnew, ‘The Territorial Trap: The Geographical Assumptions of International Relations Theory’, Review of International Political Economy 1/1 (1994) pp. 53–80.

2. E.g., P. J. Taylor, ‘New Political Geographies Twixt Places and Flows’, in A. Rogers and H. A. Viles (eds.), The Student Companion to Geography, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Blackwell 2002) pp. 133–137. Also available at <http://lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb52.html>); A. Amin, ‘Regions Unbound: Towards a New Politics of Place’, Geografiska Annaler 86B (2004) pp. 33–44.

3. Agnew, ‘The Territorial Trap’ (note 1) p. 52 (abstract; emphasis added).

4. See, e.g., D. B. Knight, ‘People Together, Yet Apart: Rethinking Territory, Sovereignty, and Identities’, in G. Demko and W. B. Wood (eds.), Reordering the World: Geopolitical Perspectives on the Twenty-First Century (Boulder: Westview Press) pp. 71–86.

5. E.g., W. Connor, Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1994).

6. See, e.g., G. Herb, and D. Kaplan (eds.), Nested Identities: Nationalism, Territory, and Scale (Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield 1999).

7. This point is also made by Stuart Elden in his contribution to this symposium. See also S. Elden, Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming).

8. See generally A. B. Murphy, ‘The Sovereign State System as Political-Territorial Ideal: Historical and Contemporary Considerations’, in T. J. Biersteker and C. Weber (eds.), State Sovereignty as Social Construct (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996) pp. 81–120.

9. Accord S. Elden, ‘Missing the Point: Globalization, Deterritorialization and the Space of the World’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 30 (2005) pp. 8–19.

10. See, e.g., A. Jeffrey, ‘Contesting Europe: The Politics of Bosnian Integration into European Structures’, Environment & Planning D: Society and Space 26/3 (2008) pp. 428–443.

11. J. A. Agnew, ‘Sovereignty Regimes: Territoriality and State Authority in Contemporary World Politics’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95/2 (2005) p. 437; J. A. Agnew, Globalization and Sovereignty (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield 2009) p. 7.

12. Agnew, ‘The Territorial Trap’ (note 1) p. 76.