The limits of territory and terrain

Elden, Stuart

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“…The fishers’ agency brings me back to Elden's ( 2021a ; 2021b ) analysis of terrain as the political materiality underlying territory (as a political technology). I argue that such materiality cannot be reduced to exclusively legal, economic, strategic, technical or scientific aspects.…”

Section: Vernacularizing Territorymentioning

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“…Drawing inspiration from the literature on the vernacularization of human rights-a process that embeds universalist ideas and practices into local understandings of social life-I examine how international concepts and ideas referring to the sea and nature are reshaped through encounters at global and local scales (Merry & Levitt, 2017). Thus adding another layer to Stuart Elden's analysis of territory as a political technology of control (Elden, 2013;2021a;2021b), my ethnography shows that territory is also a pragmatic process of vernacularization that requires translations and negotiations of authoritative knowledge within particular spatio-temporal and social contexts, and thereby transcends territory understood exclusively as a material register.…”

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Construing and constructing the South China Sea beyond state‐led environmentalism: Vernacularizing geographical, geopolitical and sociotechnical imaginaries of territory

Roszko

2022

Singap J Trop Geogr

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During the 2010s, the South China Sea (SCS) became a geopolitical flashpoint over the sovereignty of the Paracels and Spratlys. China envisioned its transformation of coral reefs into military bases and island cities as an SCS 'green construction' project. This article analyses how the SCS is discursively construed and practically constructed as maritime national territory, by mobilizing fishing legacies and extending state limits through 'state-led environmentalism' rhetoric. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in China, I show that state-led environmentalism is a hierarchical process that intermittently co-opts and excludes local populations to advance the state's territorial ambitions, which are anchored in geographical, geopolitical and socio-technical imaginaries of 'maritime civilization'. Yet, I also show that in this process, the SCS emerges as spaces of vernacularized political claims. Thus, I argue that territory is not only a political technology of control but also vernacular practice through which universalizing discourses-whether on the Exclusive Economic Zone regime, sovereignty or nature-are adapted and modified.

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Section: Vernacularizing Territorymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Construing and constructing the South China Sea beyond state‐led environmentalism: Vernacularizing geographical, geopolitical and sociotechnical imaginaries of territory

Roszko

2022

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Postdigital Territoriality: Disentangling from Digital Media as a Return to Place

Adams

Jansson

2022

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Exogenous and endogenous factors affecting the social impact of cultural projects: the case of Barcelona ecosystem

2023

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Cultural projects, particularly when aiming at social impact, are usually the result of the context, values, and social fabric. Some endogenous factors, such as governance models and availability of resources, mainly committed human resources, could explain their particular development as well, despite being widely recurrent. Cultural policies are also determined by dominant social values and usually respond to the territorial context. But to what extent are these also enabling factors for the development of cultural projects with specific social goals? The present article intends to study the emergence of cultural projects with a clear intentionality of social impact in the local context of Barcelona. Starting from the analysis of 14 cases, the article evaluates the exogenous and endogenous factors and typologies of programmes implemented in order to understand the non-linear complexity of social impact generation in the case of cultural projects.

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The limits of territory and terrain

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

Construing and constructing the South China Sea beyond state‐led environmentalism: Vernacularizing geographical, geopolitical and sociotechnical imaginaries of territory

Construing and constructing the South China Sea beyond state‐led environmentalism: Vernacularizing geographical, geopolitical and sociotechnical imaginaries of territory

Postdigital Territoriality: Disentangling from Digital Media as a Return to Place

Exogenous and endogenous factors affecting the social impact of cultural projects: the case of Barcelona ecosystem

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