Postdisciplinar geography of postmodern

Golubchikov, Yu.

doi:10.17721/2413-7154/2014.70.73-80

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“…Assembling, or 'gathering of the Russian lands' and the peoples that reside on them is explicitly set apart from the 'hard' conception of territory due to the focus on organic capabilities of 'place development', contrasted with bordering. The ontology of assembling stresses the organistic quality of the environment-human interdependencies: the people produce their environment, but the latter shapes anthropological, cultural, and physiological features of the population (Golubchikov 2003). Here, territory borrows heavily from the theoretical preoccupation of the Eurasianist philosophical movement with nomadic ways of life found across Central Asian societies, extending Russia's territorial reach to Asia.…”

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More-Than-State Ontologies of Territory: Commoning, Assembling, Peopling

Smirnova

Golubchikov

2023

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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The idea of territory as a bounded, state-centric enclosure has been recently confronted with the help of decolonial insights. This paper attempts to overcome the resultant dichotomies between the statist and organic readings of territory by demonstrating how the making of the Russian state has been contingent on decolonial narratives and territorial imaginaries that have far exceeded the notions of the state as such. The Russian political geographic traditions have historically allowed for the coexistence of multiple and heterogeneous conceptions of territory, which were varyingly assembled to fit specific geo-political intentions. This paper delineates three ontological origins of the Russian territory that have consequently played key part in shaping the Russian territorial politics: (i) the ontology of commoning, deriving inspiration from communal land use and the collective autonomy of the peasant society, (ii) the ontology of assembling, grounded in the anthropogeographical imaginary of the 'borderless' Eurasian landmass and its nomadic livelihoods, and (iii) the ontology of peopling, grounded in the taxonomies of modernization and rational distribution of human subjects. Scrutinizing the interplay of these ontologies extends the understanding of the porosity and plurality of the concept of territory and offers insights into the roots of Russia's own geo-political worldviews and their coloniality.

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confidence: 99%