Territories: The Claiming of Space

Front Cover
Territories
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
	Territory at a macro-scale
	Territory at a micro-scale
	Territory and power
	Structure of the book
	Further reading
2. Territory and territoriality
	Naturalizing territoriality
	Socialized territoriality
	The production of territory
	Territory, identity and place
	Summary
	Further reading
3. The territorial state
	Origins of states
	Key features of states
	The role and functions of the state
	Theories of the state
	Citizenship
	Summary
	Further reading
4. Nations and nationalism
	Nation and state
	The origins of nations
	National identity
	Nationalism
	Forms of nationalism
	The role and functions of nationalism
	Summary
	Further reading
5. Nationalism, territory and place
	The importance of history
	Territory and nation
	Territory, place and nationalism in the Balkans
	Four green fields
	Promised land
	England’s green and pleasant land
	Summary
	Further reading
6. The future of the sovereign state
	State failure
	The end of the state?
	Do states still matter?
	Summary
	Further reading
7. Territory, locality and community
	Sub-state territorializations
	Rolling back the state: from government to governance
	Administrative divisions and a sense of place
	Community and locality
	Summary
	Further reading
8. Territory and society
	Class and segregation
	Ethnicity, ‘race’ and space
	Geographies of resistance
	Gendered space
	Sexuality and space
	Work, rest and play
	Summary
	Further reading
9. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index