When Territory Deborders Territoriality

TLDR: In this paper, the authors focus on the misalignment between territory and the legal construct encasing the sovereign authority of the state over its territory, and make visible that territory cannot be reduced to either national territory or state territory, thereby giving the category territory a measure of conceptual autonomy from the nation-state.

Abstract: The focus is on the misalignment between territory and the legal construct encasing the sovereign authority of the state over its territory—territoriality. The aim is to make visible that territory cannot be reduced to either national territory or state territory, and thereby to give the category territory a measure of conceptual autonomy from the nation-state. Beyond an intellectual project, this analysis seeks to enable a conceptual mobilizing of the category territory, here understood as a complex capability with embedded logics of power/empowerment and of claim making, some worthy and some more akin to power-grabs. Extracto La atencion se centra en el desfase entre el territorio y la construccion legal que encierra la autoridad territorial soberana del Estado, es decir, la territorialidad. La finalidad es hacer ver que el territorio no puede reducirse a un territorio nacional o territorio estatal, y de este modo otorgar a la categoria de territorio una medida de autonomia conceptual del estado-nacion....