Still Trapped in Territory?

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Notes

1. S. Elden, ‘Thinking Territory Historically,’ Geopolitics 11 (2010) p. 1.

2. M. Foucault, Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France, 1977–1978 (New York: Picador 2007); J. Allen, ‘Three Spaces of Power: Territory, Networks, plus a Topological Twist in the Tale of Domination and Authority’, Journal of Power 2 (2009) 197–212.

3. S. Elden, Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2009).

4. S. Elden, ‘Thinking Territory Historically’ (note 1) p. 6. The locus classicus is Jean Gottmann, The Significance of Territory (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia 1972).

5. On the former, see J. Agnew, Globalization and Sovereignty (Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield 2009) Chapter 2; and on the latter, see A. Buchanan and M. Moore (eds.), States, Nations, and Borders: The Ethics of Making Boundaries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003).

6. E.g., S. Tomasch and S. Gilles (eds.), Text and Territory: Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1998).

7. N. Brenner and S. Elden, ‘Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory’, International Political Sociology 3 (2009) pp. 353–377.

8. D. Harvey, Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom (New York: Columbia University Press 2009) Chapter 8. In his “history of ideas,” however, Harvey (p. 173) ascribes the phrase “the territorial trap” to Peter Taylor, ‘Beyond Containers’, Progress in Human Geography 19 (1995) pp. 1–15. I hereby claim exclusive right to the phrase “spatial fix” even though, as far as I know, Harvey first coined it David Newman also hints at some association between my article and the various articles by Peter Taylor around 1994–1995 on “states as containers.” Obviously there is some overlap, but his purpose was entirely to distinguish the concept of state from that of nation and interstate from trans-state processes in relation to globalisation rather than to explore how state and territory had become bonded together in International Relations theory and in political practice.

9. J. Agnew, ‘No Borders, No Nations: Making Greece in Macedonia’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97 (2007) pp. 398–422.

10. E.g., T. J. Sinclair, The New Masters of Capital: American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness (Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press 2005).

11. J. Agnew, Globalization and Sovereignty (note 5).

12. D. Harvey (note 8) p. 190.

13. R. Adler-Nissen and T. Gammeltoft-Hansen (eds.), Sovereignty Games: Instrumentalizing State Sovereignty in Europe and Beyond (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2008).

14. E.g., in respect of the territoriality of legal jurisdiction and US law, see K. Raustiala, Does the Constitution Follow the Flag? The Evolution of Territoriality in American Law (New York: Oxford University Press 2009).